How to disable page flip with scroll wheel?

[AGlezB]

Hi.

I want to disable page flipping with the scroll wheel. I found some instructions dating back to 2012 but those no longer apply to current version (4.14).

Please help.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by AGlezB

Hi.

I want to disable page flipping with the scroll wheel. I found some instructions dating back to 2012 but those no longer apply to current version (4.14).

Please help.

Do you want the scroll wheel to scroll by screen fulls instead of pages? That's an option in Scrolling behavior (open ebook viewer, right click, Preferences, Scrolling behavior). Otherwise, I don't think you can disable the scroll wheel entirely just for the ebook viewer.

[AGlezB]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Do you want the scroll wheel to scroll by screen fulls instead of pages? That's an option in Scrolling behavior (open ebook viewer, right click, Preferences, Scrolling behavior). Otherwise, I don't think you can disable the scroll wheel entirely just for the ebook viewer.

No. What I want is for the scroll wheel not to flip to the next page when it reaches the bottom. That behabior is a pain with the infinite scroll in my G502.

[kovidgoyal]

whats a G502??

[BetterRed]

Logitech mouse - gaming

[kovidgoyal]

if it doesnt flip pages when reaching the bottom, then that means you will not be able to scroll through the entire book using a wheel alone. Not a worthwhile tradeoff.

[AGlezB]

My issue is that Viewer is jumping to the next page without giving me time to finish reading the page.

I understand someone else might want --or even need-- such a feature but I would appreciate if said feature is not forced on me.

Can you add a simple toggle to alter this behavior? The instructions if found indicate there used to be one.

https://www.quora.com/Can-I-disable-...eel-in-Calibre

[kovidgoyal]

those settings never applied to wheel based scrolling and their equivalents are still there for other forms of scrolling.

[AGlezB]

That "Mouse wheel flips pages" is exactly what I was looking for.

[kovidgoyal]

no it isn't. it doesnt prevent page flipping beyond the end of the chapter.

[AGlezB]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

no it isn't. it doesnt prevent page flipping beyond the end of the chapter.

Sorry. I was going to ask you to explain what you mean but I'm guessing that will sidetrack the issue.

What I've got so far is that it is not possible to disable page flipping with the scroll wheel. Is that correct?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by AGlezB

Sorry. I was going to ask you to explain what you mean but I'm guessing that will sidetrack the issue.

What I've got so far is that it is not possible to disable page flipping with the scroll wheel. Is that correct?

From what I've seen in this thread, it sounds more as if you are over-enthused with the scroll wheel. In paged or flow mode, if I am on the last page of a chapter, I have to use the scroll wheel again to move to the next chapter. It doesn't jump all on it's lonesome.

You might want to check the settings for your mouse. Ghod knows there are enough of them. Are you running the latest firmware revision? Did you click into the "hyper-fast" scroll wheel mode? Are you using a gaming or normal profile?

As a simple low tech solution, use the keyboard to move through the pages and leave the mouse alone.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DNSB

As a simple low tech solution, use the keyboard to move through the pages and leave the mouse alone.

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔ ++

BR

[AGlezB]

Originally Posted by DNSB

From what I've seen in this thread, it sounds more as if you are over-enthused with the scroll wheel.

There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the hardware I already have.

Originally Posted by DNSB

You might want to check the settings for your mouse. Ghod knows there are enough of them. Are you running the latest firmware revision? Did you click into the "hyper-fast" scroll wheel mode? Are you using a gaming or normal profile?

I did. Mouse and profiles are OK.

This is a fan translation of a web novel so there are no copyright issues:
https://nyaa.si/view/1233974

Please download the ebook, open in it in the viewer and in the initial screen scroll down to the link to chapter 2345. Try using you mouse wheel.

Two things are going to happen:

1. If you do not have a mouse with infinite scroll you'll wish you had one.
2. If you do have one you let it scroll and if you're not carefull if will scroll to to the end and flip the page with a long load time and you'll have to flip back. And when you flip back it will flip to the top of the previos page but only of you scroll one line because if you scroll two lines y will take to the page before last and this will happen regardless of you type of mouse (***) and I ended up using the keyboard.

(***) At this point I decided to ask around to see if I could disable page flipping --and chapter and everything flipping-- with the scroll wheel.

Please understard I don't intend to start a fire with this. I just found a feature which in my particular circumstances behaves like a bug and I wanted to know if there was a way to disable it. If there isn't I will ask if there is any chance you'll consider it for implementation and that's it.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by AGlezB

There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of the hardware I already have.

If the hardware causes your issues? Have you talked to Logitech about your problem?

Originally Posted by AGlezB

This is a fan translation of a web novel so there are no copyright issues:
https://nyaa.si/view/1233974

Please download the ebook, open in it in the viewer and in the initial screen scroll down to the link to chapter 2345. Try using you mouse wheel.

Nope, not going to even think about doing a torrent or magnet download until I get home. The firewalls at work stomp on torrent transfers and I don't feel like modifying the firewall rules for my personal use. I had enough fun setting up the application and port rules to stomp filesharing apps. The BOFH is my hero!

Originally Posted by AGlezB

Two things are going to happen:

1. If you do not have a mouse with infinite scroll you'll wish you had one.
2. If you do have one you let it scroll and if you're not carefull if will scroll to to the end and flip the page with a long load time and you'll have to flip back. And when you flip back it will flip to the top of the previos page but only of you scroll one line because if you scroll two lines y will take to the page before last and this will happen regardless of you type of mouse (***) and I ended up using the keyboard.

Infinite scroll? So you are feeding a mass of scroll wheel events without control and you want someone else to fix the problem caused by your "infinite scroll" being too stupid to stop at the end of a chapter? I've never liked infinite scroll on web pages either. One of the stupidest ideas invented.

Originally Posted by AGlezB

(***) At this point I decided to ask around to see if I could disable page flipping --and chapter and everything flipping-- with the scroll wheel.

Please understard I don't intend to start a fire with this. I just found a feature which in my particular circumstances behaves like a bug and I wanted to know if there was a way to disable it. If there isn't I will ask if there is any chance you'll consider it for implementation and that's it.

Given that in page mode, the scroll wheel moves in pages, I have trouble seeing how you are reading so fast you need to continuously feed scroll events. In flow mode, you do move in smaller jumps but given what the Logitech docs say about the G502, 3 lines per scroll event is going to flip lines lot faster than even I can read.

So hit the wheel mode shift button and use the standard scroll mode while reading. It's not that hard to click on the button just behind the scroll wheel.

However, since calibre is open source, feel free to modify the mouse event handling whether done in calibre or in QT to allow for your special case requirements. Adding the logic to let you scroll through a chapter but not allow that same scroll input to flip to the next chapter should be fun.