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Smart Scroll

 Mac Gems 2006/12 4 mice

Buy now | Download (2.4 MB) v3.1.1 for Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.7 (PPC/Intel).
Free trial, $19 single user license.

6/23/09 Smart Scroll 3.1.1 brings multiple fixes: "Could not start", faster Super Scroll and Scroll Keys not working, scroll wheel settings...


Smart Scroll makes scrolling smoother, faster and more comfortable:

Other features include Universal Scroll Keys, trackpad and scroll wheel accelerator, and more.


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Super Scroll

Amazingly smoother scrolling, with less work!

You can reverse scrolling on the Mac (with separate trackpad and scroll wheel settings) to match your iPhone. Says John Brooks, who suggested this: "It seems weird for about 5 seconds, then it seems like it should have been that way"!

Super Scroll works with trackpads and any regular scroll wheel mouse--any mouse that the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane can see. This is how scrolling should work, try it and you won't want to go back!


Hover Scroll

(Currently for Cocoa applications only.)

Simply point the cursor to the top or bottom edge of a scrolling pane to scroll. Move closer to the edge to scroll faster.

If needed, click or hit any key to prevent scrolling while the cursor is in the hover zone near the edge. To scroll again, move the cursor out of the zone and back in again.

You can choose how far from the edge scrolling occurs, and you can set the highest speed to scroll at, when the cursor is closest to the edge. Horizontal scrolling via the left and right edges is also available, with its own independent speed and hover zone size.

These settings can be customized for each application.


Grab Scroll openHand

Grab Scroll lets you move any window's contents around with a simple mouse drag. It is similar to the hand tool feature common in graphics programs, except:

Grab Scroll works with any kind of mouse, pen & tablet, trackpad, trackball... With a 2-button mouse, set it to use the secondary button and you can drag to Grab Scroll, or click without moving the mouse to get the usual "right-click" menu.

With 3 buttons, you can drag the middle button to Grab Scroll, or click it open links in a new tab or to perform any other action that does not involve dragging--not Dashboard or Exposé.

With a single button mouse, there are two ways to activate Grab Scroll: use a key combination (release to stop), or click and hold the button without moving the cursor until it changes to a hand, and then after releasing click and drag to scroll (click or hit any key to stop).


Universal Scroll Keys

Scroll Keys let you use the same set of keys for scrolling in all applications. This gives you consistent, dependable scrolling everywhere, without having to remember which app uses which keys and without always having to reach for the mouse.

Scroll Keys use a kind of keyboard shortcut which doesn't involve hitting letter keys, thus avoiding conflicts with existing key combinations. You hold one of these keys and tap one of the others:

modifier keys

Here's how to scroll down :

Hold down the control key key, then tap the command key key once.

To scroll another line, just tap ⌘ Command again (while still holding down ⌃ Control ). After scrolling once, you can keep both keys down to keep scrolling. If a window has two or more scrollable panes, it is the one under the mouse pointer that scrolls.

Because these keys are conveniently located in the corner of the keyboard (both corner on some keyboards), you can scroll without even having to look at the keys.

You can choose your own preferred combinations of these keys, and have them displayed in a corner of the screen as a reminder. Scroll Keys also feature an adjustable scrolling speed, with optional progressive acceleration, so that you can easily scroll multiple pages simply by holding down a key.


Other Features

Trackpad and scroll wheel Accelerator: extra-fast scrolling when you hold down a user-selectable key.

Sync scrolling to display: this setting helps suppress any "ripples" which might be visible during scrolling. Select the best value for your display, typically around +4 for most displays which require tweaking.

Smart Scroll brings scroll wheel support and live scrolling to FileMaker Pro 6 and 7 and AppleWorks 6 (the latest versions of these applications now include scroll wheel support).

Compatibility mode for Wacom wheel, Space Navigator... : prevents Smart Scroll from interpreting input generated by devices which are best handled through their own software.


Registration

A single user license costs $19 and is valid for one person using any number of computers. Five and ten users licenses are also available, as well as family licenses (valid for all members of one household on their own computers). Buy now


Acknowledgments

Smart Scroll uses Unsanity's Application Enhancer system, Copyright © 2002-2006, Unsanity LLC; Blackhole Media's URLTextView, Copyright © 2002 AAron Sittig ; and the IconFamily class by Troy Stephens, Thomas Schnitzer, David Remahl, Nathan Day and Ben Haller. Thanks to Eden Sherry for permission to name the Grab Scroll feature after the popular Scrollability feature. Thanks to Eden Sherry again, and to Catchy Software's Tobias Peciva (of MaxiMice fame) for permission to include the Hover Scroll feature in Smart Scroll.
Toolbar icons by Eugen Buzuk and Roman Gordeyev (rv.blitz@gmail.com).

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Version History

Version 3.1.1 - June 23, 2009
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