ScrollMethod

Which of three coast-scroll behaviors the held right mouse button drives.

Specification

Applies to

client settings

File

SUN.INI

Section

[Options]

Value

integer

When omitted

0

The figure applies while the right mouse button is held down over the tactical map, and the distance scrolled each frame follows from how far the pointer has moved away from the point where the button went down.

Figure	Behavior
0	The map scrolls by that offset divided by the scroll rate, and the pointer is left where it is.
1	The map scrolls twelve times as far and the pointer is put back on the press point every frame, so the ground appears to slide under a pointer that never moves.
2	The same, with the offset negated, so the ground follows the pointer instead of running away from it.

The in-game game controls dialog offers the first two as a single check box and writes the choice back to sun.ini. 2 is reachable only by writing it into the file.

A figure outside 0 through 2 scrolls by an unset distance

The three behaviors are the only cases handled, and the horizontal and vertical distances are worked out inside them. A figure of 3 or more, or a negative one, falls through all three and leaves both distances holding whatever the stack held, and the map is then scrolled by that amount in whichever direction the pointer sits from the press point.

See also — ScrollRate, AutoScroll

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