user-scroll

Arguments: window scroll-type new-position

This function is called by the system whenever the user makes a scrolling gesture. It should not be called directly by the program, but may be modified to customize scrolling behavior on the program's own window classes.

scroll-type is one of :left, :right, :up, :down, :thumb-continuous, :thumb-finished. The thumb values indicate a dragged scroll-box (also known as "the thumb" or "slider"), while the other values indicate single-click page or line scrolling.

new-position is either :character or :page. :character indicates that a small (line or character) scroll was requested, typically by mousing one of the arrows at the end of the scroll bar or by pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard. :page indicates that a large (page) scroll was requested, typically by mousing the body of the scroll bar or pressing the page-up or page-down keys.

An application may override the default method of this and several other generic functions in order to implement a custom scrolling scheme that scrolls by logical picture objects rather than by pixels. See the source code of the example entitled 'Scrolling by arbitrary objects rather than pixels' on the Examples tab of the Navigator dialog for a complete example." More on this point and a list of the relevant generic functions can be found on the horizontal-scroll-bar and vertical-scroll-bar pages.

See cg-events.htm for information about event handling in Common Graphics.

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