Zeus IDE

Hi Jussi,

is it possible to use the scrollbar on the right side without automaticaly move the cursor while scrolling?

The Cursor should stay at the same position as before, even if i scroll down a few pages - when then starting to type again the viewable area should jump back to the position where the cursor is.

Thanks, Egon

Hi Egon,

Unfortunately this is not possible

As you have noticed Zeus will always keep the cursor on the screen.

Cheers Jussi

Hi Jussi,

Thanks for your fast response - do you have any plans on adding this feature maybe in future versions of zeus?

Bye, Egon

Hi Egon,

I will add the feature request to the todo list but before attempting to make this change quite a bit of investigation is first required. The current Zeus has logic coded into it that makes sure this never happens and this code has been in Zeus for a very long time. In fact the code is so old I am not sure of the the exact reason it is needed

But it will be there for a reason so undoubtly if the code is changed or removed something in Zeus will most certainly break

In the mean time there are a few workaround solutions

For example one option would be to use the Window, Split xxxx to create two views of the code. You can then use the top view to scroll to the cursor to the code being investigated. Then when you want to go back to the old cursor postion, just give focus back to the second view (which will still have the old position) and use the Window, Join menu.

A second option is to use the Zeus bookmark features to drop a book mark, then scroll the view and finally use the dropped bookmark to restore the original cursor location.

Finally might be able to use use Zeus scripting to write a more semi-automatic solution. For example Michael used scripting to totally replace the built-in bookmarks feature with his own extended bookmarks feature:)

Cheers Jussi