This issue is actually twofold because apparently my mouse's scroll wheel and my touchpad's "scroll wheel" (moving my finger along the right-side of it) I'll state that my computer is a Dell Latitude D630 because I don't really know anything about touchpads. The two environments I've tested these in also don't have custom skins.
Touchpad abnormality: In BYOND Tabletop Gaming and one of my own games I've tried hosting, stat panels and command panels only scroll if there is not a stat panel or command panel that is able to scroll to the right of it. So like, if I have
[A][B][C][D][E]
where panels A through C and E are all very, very long all that's on panel D contains, like, one verb or one "stat" -- not long enough to requires a scroll bar -- only panels C and E will scroll with my touchpad. My mouse's scroll wheel works fine, though. I really had no idea they were any different, but there you go.
(Actually, with the code I'm posting below, the leftmost panel seems to act like a free agent of buggy sorts... it doesn't always scroll, but it doesn't follow the same rules as the other ones... maybe I'm just wrong? All I know for certain is that it doesn't work right.)
Second abnormality: Neither my touch pad nor mouse's scroll wheel will scroll in HTML popups or the main browser window when the browse() proc makes a window large enough to require scrolling.
Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
Just use the code below, and try to scroll in the resulting windows with a touch pad and a mouse's scroll wheel, since they apparently behave differently.
Code Snippet (if applicable) to Reproduce Problem:
mob/Stat()
var/X = 1
while(X < 10) //Nine stat panels
statpanel("[X]")
var/Y = 1
if(X % 2 == 0) //Half of them will be short; change the 2 to observe different behaviours
stat("I NOT SCROLL")
X++
continue
while(Y < 20) // Or larger, if needed.
stat("[Y]")
Y++
X++
mob/verb/BrowserScrollTest()
var/html = ""
var/ctr = 0 //Can't have too many counters.
while(ctr < 100)
html += ":D!<BR>"
src << browse(html,"window=HappyWindow")
src << browse(html)
Expected Results:
Every window, whether stat panel or HTML, should scroll when I use my touch pad or mouse wheel
Actual Results:
Stat panels always scroll with mouse wheel, HTML popups never scroll for mouse or touchpad, stat panels... strangely... scroll with touchpad.
Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often?
It behaves as I described, every time.
In other games?
Yes
In other user accounts?
Untested
On other computers?
Untested. If it counts, I can use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to my Win XP computer I use to host things with BYOND 454.1036, it seems to scroll the stat panels just fine. I can't really test my touchpad on another computer any other way, though.
When does the problem NOT occur?
You can scroll the main text box just fine. That's about it. I also don't know about the main non-popup browser window; I think it might behave the same.
Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? (Visit http://www.byond.com/download/build to download old versions for testing.)
I'm pretty sure the stat panel thing is fairly recent because I use my touchpad a lot and would notice this, but I don't remember the exact version. Maybe when I'm not so sleepy I'll bother to download back-versions. I also have a feeling like the browser windows used to scroll a very long time ago, like around the switch to 4.0.
Workarounds:
...The scroll bars work! As a client, avoid low resolution and touchpads (Interestingly enough, Windows 95 will not have drivers your touchpad, yet it will make you use a lower resolution.). As a programmer, avoid... stat panels and browser windows...
EDIT: I noticed last night that I can scroll horizontally in HTML windows using my touchpad, but not vertically.
