Guild Window - Member List - Slow Scrolling

Dethdlr · #1 07-08-2009, 04:07 PM

Anybody know why the scrolling in the member list of the guild window goes soooo, slooooow when you click the up or down arrows on the scroll bar?

I tried fiddling around with it last night to see if I could speed it up and nothing I tried worked. I even removed everything but the NameAndLevel Text object from the MemberRow Page object to see if maybe it was trying to update too many things which was making it scroll slow (long shot at best but I had tried everything else that made any sense to me). It was a funky looking window with hardly anything on it but it still scrolled really slow.

I'm guessing this is something on the SoE side but not sure. Anybody have any insight into this? Anybody even know what I'm talking about?

**gm9** · #2 07-08-2009, 06:20 PM

Have you tried setting the autoscroll* parameters of the scrollbar?

dragowulf · #3 07-08-2009, 07:59 PM

Isn't there a ScrollSpeed property?

Dethdlr · #4 07-09-2009, 10:53 AM

I'll give those a shot when I have a chance to get back at it (only certain days I have the time to fiddle with these things).

So, does this mean that there are people out there running UIs where when you click the down arrow on the scroll bar for the member list in the guild window, it actually scrolls at a normal pace?

For me, on both the default UI and the FetishNightfall UI, when I click the up or down arrow, the list crawls. It doesn't happen on any other list in any other window. Just the member list on the guild window.

Thanks

**gm9** · #5 07-09-2009, 01:53 PM

I don't think I've clicked on an arrow on a scrollbar in my life, I always drag it with the mouse, so not a clue how fast it goes or should go.

Dethdlr · #6 07-09-2009, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gm9

I don't think I've clicked on an arrow on a scrollbar in my life, I always drag it with the mouse, so not a clue how fast it goes or should go.

I normally don't either, except for this window. When I'm looking through scrollable list and need to look at each item, I usually look at one page at a time, then click the blank area near the bottom of the scroll bar to jump down one page in the data. Normally this works fine. Take a list of numbers for example:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

If three numbers fit per page, on the first page you would see:

1
2
3

If I click the scroll bar to jump down a page, most interfaces would show me this:

3
4
5

or at least show me the bottom of 3 so I have some indicator as to where I left off and where I'm going to. I can spot something that was at the bottom of the page, now located at the top of the page. You can try it on this page with your browser.

In the members list of the guild window, it doesn't do this. It takes the item at the bottom of the page and scrolls it completely off the page to the top. You then wonder if it scrolled exactly or if it skipped anything. To see if it skipped anything or find out where it is in the list, I click the arrow to go back up and see what it did. The arrow scrolls like a snail. The other option is to grab the marker and drag it up but if you're looking at the full listing of everyone in the guild with several hundred characters listed, it's almost impossible to scroll that way without jumping several characters at a time since the list is so long.

Basically, I have to treat this window differently than any other window I deal with anywhere in life because of it's scroll behavior. That's why I'm trying to fix it.

**Zonx** · #7 07-10-2009, 08:05 AM

I'll look at the arrow issue in Nightfall... you're right it is scrolling 1px at a time. Almost positive I can increase it to something like 1 row at a time (the small row size since they vary in height).

As far as the amount by which clicking the scrollbar background jumps the slider, pretty sure that isn't something we can tweak, but I'll look into it.

Workaround: Select a member then use your keyboard arrow up/down to scroll 1 member at a time

Dethdlr · #8 07-11-2009, 09:28 AM

Well since my whole purpose in trying to fix this is to get it to work in Fetish, and since Zonx is going to see if he can fix it in Fetish, I may just wait and see if Zonx finds whats up with this window since he's way better at this stuff than I am anyway.

Hey Zonx, if you decide it's not worth fixing, let me know and I'll dive back in and try what I can. It almost looked like a bug on SoE's side but then again, I'm still kinda new at this stuff.

Thanks