[Oberon] Horizontal scrolling of Menu items on a Viewer in Native Oberon alpha 2.3.6

[eas lab]

>Long line are bad for your eyes.
>When jumping with your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the
>next line you easily loose what line you were on.
>That's the reason why almost all newspapers use columns.
>Consider a line break when lines are longer than can be displayed in one
>track.

Yes. What length limit do you want?
Or do you want the 957-page-novel to be ONE-Line ?


On 4/19/16, Jörg <joerg.straube at iaeth.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Long line are bad for your eyes.
> When jumping with your eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of
> the
> next line you easily loose what line you were on.
> That's the reason why almost all newspapers use columns.
> Consider a line break when lines are longer than can be displayed in one
> track.
>
> br
> Jörg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Srinivas
> Nayak
> Sent: Dienstag, 19. April 2016 12:59
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Horizontal scrolling of Menu items on a Viewer in
> Native Oberon alpha 2.3.6
>
>> With 0ver 20 years of usage I'd never seen that.
>
> More interestingly, I use this unknown feature heavily. (To reach at
> Edit.Store)
> Where as, I have a very bad time while doing copy paste.
>
> Another trouble is while reading a text where the lines run a little more
> than user track width.
> System.Grow works, but seems painful for each such lines in a text.
> What if any line runs more than full screen width?
> I read that horizontal scrolling is available in NO but only for picture
> frames or graphic frames.
> I wish if text frames as well would have this.
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
>
> On 04/19/2016 01:51 PM, eas lab wrote:
>> With 0ver 20 years of usage I'd never seen that.
>> ETHO is a minimal system which is explicitly described/documented;
>> not a biological entity with ever deeper layers of structure to be
> discovered.
>>
>> For <gadgets Frames> in SystemTrack, where the RHS is hidden,
>> I <copy> and move the copy to the wider UserTrack to read the MenuFrame.
>>
>> == ChrisGlur.
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/16, Srinivas Nayak <sinu.nayak2001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>>> In some Oberon installation I had seen horizontal scrolling of Menu
> items
>>>> with MR click.
>>>> Now I forgot where. Can any one kindly remind me?
>>>
>>> I found that, in Native Oberon alpha 2.3.6, horizontal scrolling of Menu
>>> items is available.
>>> Example: System.Log viewer.
>>> Just before the name 'System.Log' in menu bar, we see a small square
>>> box.
>>> MM click on this square, scrolls the menu list to right, revealing
> invisible
>>> menu items present at the end of menu bar.
>>> Now, 2-3 MR click on the same square, scrolls the menu list to left,
>>> revealing menu items present at the beginning of menu bar.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure if this is a feature or bug.
>>>
>>>
>>> With thanks and best regards,
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>> Srinivas Nayak
>>>
>>> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
>>> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
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