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Mathcad slow scroll speed
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Mathcad slow scroll speed

Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
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?

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

Do you feel it is too slow when holding "control" and scrolling?

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
He he... No!

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.
 

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

You can change the mouse wheel scroll speed in the control panel (for windows) but that will affect all of your programs.
 

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
Yes I know but that's not what I'm looking for. How is your Mathcad scrollspeed? Same as Excel approximately?

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

Once the document has calculated, my scroll speed is fast.  So, I usually go Ctrl-End and then go to another program for a while, come back and scroll.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
I appreciate that you are trying to help me but calculations have nothing to do with it, it's the same with an empty sheet.

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

Do you mean that it takes small steps (only 10 pixels), or that those steps happen very slowly (so that it takes a long time to see the 10 pixel shift)?

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 winky smile, or to adjust the graphics acceleration (which often only works for a limited set of 'games' actions).

Philip

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
I mean small steps, my bad.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
UcfSE, today I tried to change the scroll speed/step size in the Control panel. Guess what happend? I get superfast scrollspeed in all programs EXCEPT Mathcad! In Mathcad the stepsize doesn't change even a single pixel! What's the word I'm looking for here? Frustra... nah that can't be it.

I think it's a mouse driver thing. I will try to install Logitech's mousedriver instead if possible.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

Interesting.  

I would just hold the control button when scrolling and go have a beer.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
Sorry, no can do.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

I have the same problem.  I do a lot of symbolic math where the generated equations stretch across multiple pages.   Even if the Mathcad gets the right solution the solution isn't useable but the cutting and pasting to sooo slooow toooo.    I am actively investigating other CAS.  Maxima has a few advantages when doing symbolic processing and generating html files.   The documentation isn't as good though.   The good thing is that you can use your own editor.

 

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

On the Collab http://collab.mathsoft.com/~Mathcad2000 the thread there finally came up with the facts that:
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 winky smile

Philip

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
Good that you kicked this thread alive again philipoakley!
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. smile I'm not at that particular computer right now which makes me a bit uncertain of my findings (it was more than a week ago) but what the heck, I'm posting this anyway! Prove me wrong!smile

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
Hallelujah! The rescue for worn out scroll fingers is here!
It's called Freewheel and can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html
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...

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

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It's nice that I got a star but how does it work?
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.

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(OP)
Ok.
As for myself I'm not old enough to ignore starssmile. And the few ones I've recieved have been relevant.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

Hello Jacc!
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

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

(OP)
Well I'm not an expert, just a person who can get really annoyed at small details.
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.

RE: Mathcad slow scroll speed

Thank you!!

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

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