Pen Scrolling

 

Pen Scrolling is a special function provided by the Tablet Driver to let you scroll through a document or an image by simply hovering the Pen over Tablet Plate without using the scroll bar. Thus, scrolling becomes especially convenient for activities such as browsing HTML documents on the Internet, examining images larger than the screen, panning a spreadsheet on the computer, and so on. An example of Pen Scrolling follows.

 

 

Enabling Pen Scrolling

To enable Pen Scrolling, make sure one of Barrel Buttons has been set to trigger the mouse command Middle Click. Let us call this button Scroll Button. We recommend using Barrel Button 1, the button closer to Pen Tip, as Scroll Button. You may verify or change this setting by calling out the Button Configuration Page of the Tablet Driver through tapping on the Tablet Icon () in the system Task Bar, usually located at the lower right corner of the screen, or through the Control Panel.

Pen Scrolling requires Windows 98SE or up, and also requires the support of the application controlling the scrolling window. To find out if Pen Scrolling is supported, try using it after making sure both the Tablet hardware and Tablet Driver have been installed properly, and also Pen Scrolling has been enabled as described above.

 

Using Pen Scrolling

To use Pen Scrolling, simply press and hold Scroll Button while moving the Pen over Pen Area without touching the Plate surface. As soon as you press Scroll Button, a Scroll Mark such as , , or , will appear. Also, the cursor changes to Scroll Cursor, looking something like . When you move Scroll Cursor away from the Scroll Mark, the window showing the document will scroll in that direction, and the shape of Scroll Cursor may also change to point to the direction it is moving, such as or . To scroll faster, increase the distance between Scroll Cursor and Scroll Mark; to scroll at a lower speed, decrease this distance. When you release Scroll Button, Scroll Mark disappears and Pen Scrolling stops also.

You may also Pen Scroll without holding Scroll Button if you press Scroll Button and release it immediately. You will find that Scroll Mark will remain on the screen after Scroll Button is released. Moving the Pen over Pen Area will cause the document to scroll. Pressing Scroll Button again removes Scroll Mark and stops Pen Scrolling.

 

Variations in the Pen Scrolling Function

Pen Scrolling works for most Microsoft applications, including Internet Explorer, WordPad on windows 98SE, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Many other applications also support Pen Scrolling, for example, Ulead PhotoImpact. You will find that the behavior of Pen Scrolling varies somewhat from application to application, even among Microsoft applications.

Some applications will allow you to scroll in all directions, while others will scroll only up and down; still others will scroll smoothly, while some tend to be "jumpy". You may also find that some applications do not support Pen Scrolling at all, for example, Netscape Navigator 4.5. Also, within an application, Pen Scrolling may not work in all contexts. For example, Pen Scrolling does not work with Help texts shown under Microsoft Word.

Given all the variations in Pen Scrolling implementations, please experiment with it for each application to get a better feel for this very useful function.