Questions relating to the use of the common pointing device.
Questions tagged [mouse]
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What is the standard practice for a mouse-over "highlight" of a picture that is under the cursor?
I'm displaying several photographs.
The user then selects (clicks) on one of them.
I'd like to have a mouse-over highlight of the one they are "on".
The photographs :
are on a background the color of the screen so they look like an "object" on the…
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How much the scroll wheel should zoom in and out?
I am creating a application using Game Maker 8 and it has a zoom feature, where you can zoom in and out using the scroll wheel. For now, I am using a simple formula of adding or subtracting 10% of the zoom. It works well at small scales, but it…
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Is there any emerging "standard" for the direction a screen scrolls when a trackpad "scroll" gesture moves downwards?
I mean this as a concrete question about what configuration is becoming standard, not a place for opinions about which feels better.
The question is about what direction the screen scrolls, up or down, when a user does a "scroll" on their trackpad…
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