Mac trackpad error with "little arrows"

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kwinkler
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Mac trackpad error with "little arrows"

Post by kwinkler » Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:24 am

I use the "little arrows" scrollbar to control a lot of input parameters. It seems that on a Mac laptop trackpad, these little arrows do not respond to a single-tap of a finger. A double-tap is required. A single-click is sufficient, either with a clickable trackpad or with a mouse button, but a double-tap of a finger is required. This problem does not exist on the PC, where a single-tap of a finger is sufficient to register on a "little arrow".

A single finger tap does work elsewhere on the user interface on a Mac, only the little "arrows" have a problem.

So I guess this is either a heads-up or a bug report, unless someone knows how to fix it.

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Re: Mac trackpad error with "little arrows"

Post by Mark » Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:33 pm

Hi Kwinkler,

I complained about such an issue a long time ago, but I don't think RunRev understood :-) Somehow, the buttons in LiveCode are insufficiently sensitive to register a finger tap. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

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