How to disable page flip with scroll wheel?

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah I really dont follow. In paged mode, you scroll by pages, so there is no question of automatic scroll. In flow mode there is a builtin automatic scroll with an adjustable speed that pauses at chapter boundaries for a configurable time. So no need for mouse based infinite scroll again.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yeah I really dont follow. In paged mode, you scroll by pages, so there is no question of automatic scroll. In flow mode there is a builtin automatic scroll with an adjustable speed that pauses at chapter boundaries for a configurable time. So no need for mouse based infinite scroll again.

I have a different Logitec mouse and I think I now what the OPs issue is.

The scrollwheel on these can change from a "ratchet" mode to a "freespin" mode if you turn the wheel fast enough. In the "freespin" mode, the wheel spins for a long time. This is good for long web pages as you can just spin it to get to the top or bottom quickly. And in the viewer, it works the same way. Which is great if you want to get to the end of the book quickly.

I think what the OP wants is that when the end of an internal file is hit, to stop scrolling. Even if there are more scroll events coming. The use something else to scroll to the next file. Or, wait until the scroll events stop and start again.

There is an option "Stop at internal file boundaries when smooth scrolling by holding down the scroll key" in the scrolling preferences. That is for smooth scroll when holding the key down. When you hit the end of the internal file it stops. You have to release the key and start again.

I think that something similar for fast mouse scrolling is what is wanted. I have no idea whether that is possible. I have never coded for the mouse wheel, so I don't know what the events look like.

[kovidgoyal]

unlike with key events, there are no press and release scroll events, so the only way to implement this would be timing related hacks whic is really not going to work well.

[AGlezB]

My apologies. It seems my lack of familiarity with Calibre has created quite a bit of a missunderstanding. From what I've seen so far what I called "page flip" was instead a jump between internal file boundaries.

As I understand now it is enough to set "Seconds to pause before auto-scrolling past internal file boundaries" to a suitably large value, say 999999999, and that would work as stop at the end of the boundary which is what I wanted. Is that correct?

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by AGlezB

My apologies. It seems my lack of familiarity with Calibre has created quite a bit of a missunderstanding. From what I've seen so far what I called "page flip" was instead a jump between internal file boundaries.

As I understand now it is enough to set "Seconds to pause before auto-scrolling past internal file boundaries" to a suitably large value, say 999999999, and that would work as stop at the end of the boundary which is what I wanted. Is that correct?

That is used when you turn the auto scrolling on. Which means you don't need to use the mouse or keyboard to scroll the page, it just happens. That wasn't what I thought you were doing.

[MacGuini]

Originally Posted by 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

I've looked all over the settings and can't find this feature.

[MacGuini]

Originally Posted by 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.

Dude. I've been looking for a way to disable the mouse wheel scroll on calibre all day. I have seen three posts on two different forums including this one for the past 3 years where people are asking for a simple "mouse scroll disable" feature and your argument everytime is basically, you don't like that feature. It doesn't make sense to you. You're not gonna make a work around for a hardware issue.

Well, not all of us like to flip through 500 pages after accidentally touching the touchpad while we're at the edge of our seat in a really good book. It's really frustrating. So if you could please do a favor for the rest of us and just have a little check mark box that disables mouse wheel scrolling? This isn't a hardware issue. It's a software issue. Every other software I use with mouse scrolling is no where near as sensitive as calibre. Which means....calibre programming is the problem. I read three years worth of complaints about this. It's not the user's fault.

[gbm]

Originally Posted by MacGuini

Dude. I've been looking for a way to disable the mouse wheel scroll on calibre all day. I have seen three posts on two different forums including this one for the past 3 years where people are asking for a simple "mouse scroll disable" feature and your argument everytime is basically, you don't like that feature. It doesn't make sense to you. You're not gonna make a work around for a hardware issue.

Well, not all of us like to flip through 500 pages after accidentally touching the touchpad while we're at the edge of our seat in a really good book. It's really frustrating. So if you could please do a favor for the rest of us and just have a little check mark box that disables mouse wheel scrolling? This isn't a hardware issue. It's a software issue. Every other software I use with mouse scrolling is no where near as sensitive as calibre. Which means....calibre programming is the problem. I read three years worth of complaints about this. It's not the user's fault.

Please look at the screen shot, PAY attention to the part that says:

Stop At internal file boundaries when smooth scrolling by holding down the scroll key

Seconds to pause before auto-scrolling past internal file boundaries:

it sounds to me like you are in flow mode with auto scrolling enabled.

bernie

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by MacGuini

I've looked all over the settings and can't find this feature.

That Quora post is 3 years old, so it is referencing the Version 3 Viewer.

See calibre - New in calibre 4.0

BR