Mathcad slow scroll speed
Mathcad slow scroll speed
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I just installed Mathcad (30 day trial) and the scroll speed is just ridiculous. It's so slow it's no point using it.
I have a feeling this is a common issue, yet it's hard to find info about it.
How do I get it fixed?
I have a feeling this is a common issue, yet it's hard to find info about it.
How do I get it fixed?





RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed
RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed
Thanks for the tip but I'm not sure I regard that as a true solution.
I do recall being in this situation about a year ago when in brief contact with Mathcad. After some intense googling I did find something about some setting somewhere in the Windows control panel or something like that. Mouse driver I guess. I tried to find it again but today but with no success.
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I did a quick comparison with Excel.
One notch on the mouse wheel will move the page three rows in Excel, which equals 51 pixels.
One notch on the mouse wheel in Mathcad will move the page less then the height of a letter (Arial, size 10), maybe 10 pixels.
RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed
The speed can be affected by the various graphics effects. mathcad can be affected by the poor implementations of OpenGL, hence the oft repeated suggestion to ensure that graphics drivers are fully up to date (last stable version
Philip
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I think it's a mouse driver thing. I will try to install Logitech's mousedriver instead if possible.
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I would just hold the control button when scrolling and go have a beer.
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RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed
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1. the scroll is fixed at one region grid per 'step' [the region grid is about half a line].
2. that pressing Ctrl while scrolling will change the step size to about a third of a page. [This will give 'fast' scrolling]
3. Mathcad basically ignores most of the windows settings, which is annoying
Philip
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I decided to do some more research on this and installed Microsoft Intellipoint. It's meant to be for microsofte mice but it worked fine with my basic generic Logitech mouse. There is a function where you can adjust step size as a function of how fast you spin the mouse wheel. Guess what? Mathcad actually responded to that! I'm not even gonna mention the word "workaround" cause I still think this whole issue sucks, but with the right setting and the right finger movement it was possible to create an illusion of a faster scroll/longer stepping scroll.
Appearently Mathcad doesn't ignore ALL the windows settings.
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It's called Freewheel and can be found here:
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Mathcad (only tried on MC 14) actually responds perfectly to the settings in Freewheel but if you get too greedy with the number-of-rows-per-scroll (+10 rows per scroll or so) you can still outrun Mathcad. With a normal settting it works like a charm! Life is good!
I found it when I was searching for a fix for my non working VB6 IDE scroll. Turns out that Intellipoint of later versions messes with the VB6 scroll.
Some jerk on some forum came up with the brilliant idea that Intellipoint would make Mathcad scroll work better. I wonder who that was...
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If I get a star in a thread I get it for everything I write including ignorant posts like this one?
Is there a way to tell what I got the star for other than monitoring the thread continously and make a note when it happends?
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It's the same star, regardless of which posting you read.
No, long-term users pretty ignore the genesis of stars, since you'll often get them for rather mundane answers, yet your Nobel-qualifiable postings might get nothing.
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As for myself I'm not old enough to ignore stars
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Hey I have the same Problem. Now I'm trying to solve it in the same way like you... But I'm not able to do it! Because MathCad doesn't respond to Freewheel?!
What I have to do? It would be very nice, if you explain it a little bit to me.
wfg Petread
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I just installed Freewheel and that was pretty much it. I don't remember all the little things I tried but I did try Microsoft Intellipoint for a while as mentioned in the posts above.
I uninstalled Intellipoint prior to installing Freewheel. On the Freewheel website it says that it is designed to work with Intellipoint but I don't think I tried that.
It's Mathcad 14, running on an XP machine, generic Logitech mouse.
The mouse driver is the standard windows for PS/2 version 5.1.2600.0. It's set to "Assume there is a wheel".
The settings in Freewheel is pretty much selfexplaining plus the homepage give some info.
I wish I could help you more but the only I advice I can give you is to try different settings in the control panel and stuff like that.
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I will try it! I have installed Logitech SetPoint at the moment. So i will uninstal it and try it once more! Maybe are there troubles between the two Programs (SetPoint and Freewheel).
Thank you for your advice