[DONE][Suggestion] PageUp / PageDown hotkey in lists

[rkagerer]

It would be awesome if PageUp and PageDown scrolled a screen at a time in the lists (like in the Sell inventory list).  Home and End would be welcome as well.  Hope this is the right place to suggest.

[Meridian]

Why would it be awesome?
Can you elaborate on that?

[rkagerer]

Of course!

Right now I tend to use the scrollwheel to move around the list.  And I sure do move around it a lot.  I don't use the arrow icons that are on the screen, as it takes longer to get my cursor over their little targets - and doing so shifts my focus away from what I'm trying to read.

I've noticed my wrist is getting sore from the excessive scrollwheel use.  Scrollwheels are actually really bad from an ergonomics perspective.

PageUp and PageDown would let me scroll around entirely from the keyboard.  I would use it extensively when paging through the list to review items I can get rid of.  Being able to navigate through the list exactly one page at a time would be a nice side-effect that makes this easier.

You'd really just be making those two keys do what they've always intended to do (and what users generally expect from them, at least users old enough to have used keyboards before touchscreens displaced them).

[Meridian]

ok

do you want the scrolling to be automatic when holding the key pressed down?
or should each press be just one scroll (regardless of how long the key is pressed)?

[psavola]

Now that this has been mentioned, I must admit scrollwheeling larger lists can be a bit tedious and even tolling for wrists at times.

PgUp/PgDown seems like a good solution. No preference whether a button just does one scroll, or there would be behaviour for holding it down.

An alternative approach might be holding down some keyboard button + scrollwheel would scroll whole screen at a time, instead of one entry at a time. This would be in line with some other such keyboard + mouse combinations.

[rkagerer]

do you want the scrolling to be automatic when holding the key pressed down?
or should each press be just one scroll (regardless of how long the key is pressed)?

I'd prefer each press correspond to one scroll.
i.e. If there are 20 items in the list, depressing the PageDown key immediately scrolls the list down by 20 rows.

If you want to get fancy you could make it start auto-repeating after the key is held down for a certain amount of time (like the way Windows works), but that's not important to me.

[Meridian]

I asked if you want A or B and your answer is: I want B, but if you want to get fancy I want A.

Helps a lot 

I guess I'll do what I want.

[ontherun]

I'd prefer each press correspond to one scroll.
i.e. If there are 20 items in the list, depressing the PageDown key immediately scrolls the list down by 20 rows.

+1

[rkagerer]

Hah!  I think more precisely my answer is "I want B, but A is fine as long as it doesn't get in the way of B" (as would be the case if the repeat delay is too low or it some kind of smooth-scrolling behavior were implemented instead of page-at-a-time).  Hope that helps, thanks aplenty for all your hard work on this mod.

[hth]

+1

By now, keyboard is not used on lists completely, and by mouse you can _scroll_ them by two methods, _jump_ by two methods, but can't turn pages precisely.

If it will easier to implement than KB binds I suggest change mouse clicking above and below scroll thumb to PgUp / PgDn, because quick jumping still can be achieved by dragging the thumb.

[Meridian]

Done.

After some playtesting I decided for the variant without automatic scrolling when holding the key.
One keypress = one scroll.

If there is only one scrollable list on the screen, it is scrolled automatically.
If there's more than one, the one below the mouse cursor is scrolled.

[rkagerer]

Amazing, thank you!