[Sharky K.]

There are two options now in OS X for scrolling (see general preferences)
1 jump one page (normal)
2 go to there (somewhat unusable)

I made a picture of my idea:
<img src="http://homepage.mac.com/sharky/.Pictures/features/smartscrolling.png" alt=" - " />

[me]

Hey, I'm actually a "scroll to here" user! I like your idea in general, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about having lines in my bar.

[Sharky K.]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by me:
<strong>Hey, I'm actually a "scroll to here" user! I like your idea in general, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about having lines in my bar.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">the advantage is that you scroll exactly to a "window" in a document and you can easily click to the next window like the other has

[havannas]

Its good to be thinking about this kind of stuff. You should also put it in the dev forum if you haven't already. I was actually building my own Cocoa scrollers for a little while... mostly just to make them cooler looking... they added nothing/little functionally (well maybe a little.. they were to be scaleable with screen rez and had a larger minimum thumb size).

Here's a question to help you along:

You have a 600 page document but your scroll wells are only 500 pixels tall.... what do you do?

Maybe up the hierachy to Chapters from pages?

Anyway interesting idea, hope this helps it along.

[Brazuca]

I'm not a big fan of the "scroll here" idea. For me I like scrolling to take as little attention as possible. That's why I like a scroll wheel on my mouse. When I click on the scroll bar I don't want to count down to where I want to go, especially as the pages get numerous. And If I need that, I can always option-click.

&lt;shrug&gt;