Enhancement request: wheel scrolling behaviour

[Alexo]

When I compare two files, and the difference bar has focus, the mouse wheel jumps between blocks, which is very convenient.
Clicking inside the right or left panes, moves the focus and changes the wheel behaviour to scrolling.

However, clicking on the arrow buttons, the synchronizing splitter, or the colour bars, also move the focus away from the difference bar, making mouse-only operations inconvenient.

Please fix.

Thank you,
Alex

[psguru]

There's nothing to fix.

The mouse wheel behavior depends on the focus: if it's on the diff combobox, scrolling simply changes its current selection, causing the views to scroll to the next/previous difference. If the focus is on one of the view panes (an arrow button is a part of a pane), scrolling of the mouse wheel causes the pane to scroll.

[Alexo]

The problem is that clicking on the arrows changes the focus, making continuing navigation less efficient.

[psguru]

I already answered this: an arrow button is a part of a pane. Once you click on it, the focus will change to the pane. There's nothing unnatural in this behavior.

[Alexo]

Not unnatural, just inconvenient.

[psguru]

Yes, you are right. So we will add the following to the next build of 9.0:

• Shift + MouseWheel Up will always navigate to the previous difference
• Shift + MouseWheel Down will always navigate to the next difference
• MouseWheel Click will set focus to the diff bar (if it's visible and enabled)

[Alexo]

Thank you!