About the little scrollbar arrows...

mdavidsydney wrote:

The first approach was with a Microsoft mouse.

The second approach was with Apple's Magic Mouse.

May I suggest trying out with a suitable Logitech mouse? I have two MX Revolutions, which were outstanding but appear to have been discontinued. However, and for purposes of this thread, their "hyper-fast scrolling" technology is what concerns us for precision scroll work. The scrollwheel they use is hefty, giving you excellent feel. It has a mechanism that engages a very fine stepped clicker with adjustable resolution giving you extraordinary precison. When you need a fast scroll, the clicker disengages, the scrollwheel spins free and the weight allows it to fly to the ends of the lists. As for mousing, they now have something called Dark Field Tracking that allows the laser beam to work even on glass or shiny surfaces; this I have not experienced since it was developed after my mice came out. Their top-of-the-line Performance Mouse MX incorporates all of the above, others might too.

As for software, their Logitech Control Center unifies all functions (mice, pointers, keyboards, etc.) and offers extensive customization, button by button (the Performance MX has 7) both globally as well as in a per-application basis.

Please put the arrows back. I'm soooo frustrated. I've had nothing but trouble with Lion. Starting from trying to purchase it to now this.

You can always reinstall Snow Leopard from your backup.

Pete

Actually, Snow Leopard does not support iCloud. That's why I upgraded to mayhem!!

I have now gone back to Snow Leopard on 3 different Macs I use because of the lack of the arrows in the scrollbars. I can't see why it is such an issue for Apple not to include the option of allowing users to turn this feature on and off - rather than simply eliminating it entirely! I mean the code-base difference between 10.6.8 (with the arrows) and 10.7 (without) surely is not that significant.

I am actually surprised by Apple's seemingly intransigent attitude on this, because they go out of their way to provide options for people in many other areas of the OS - including accessibility.

So, come on Apple...please bring back the arrows in the scrollbars!!

And if Apple won't do it - is there anyone out there that can provide an extension or system hack that can get us our beloved arrows back!

If there was a hack I'm sure it would have been posted over the last ten months. You can always cross your fingers that Apple may return the feature in Mountain Lion, but my money won't be going on it.

Cheers

Pete

I had this question, too, and was extremely frustrated at how difficult it was to navigate pages without the little arrows, as the scroll bar alone moves the pages too much - wanted the scroll bar arrows back to move pages incrementally. I FINALLY figured out that if I use the up/down arrow KEYS on my keyboard, pages will move incrementally (just a little bit at a time). Hope that helps some of you out there who have also been missing the scroll bar arrows.

This is just sad.

I went into the local Apple store and the kids on the staff don't even know _how_ to use scrollbar arrows

Nor have a clue why anyone would bother.

Every time they tried to show me something -- always -- they'd use a touchpad gesture.

And I'd say, no, I'm handicapped, I use an ergonomic keyboard and ergonomic mouse.

On a computer.

On a desktop.

You know? Not an ipad. Not an iphone.

Blame it on the carpal tunnel surgery.

And -- they'd be stuck.

No clue.

What every Mac user did up until this past year is suddenly ancient history.

I find that using either a older "little ball on top wired" apple mouse or my little laptop logitech "wired" scroll wheel mouse works great. very slow scrolling of pages line by line. I have my wacom on rte right hand my mouse on the left and the combination is very effective.

Forget it! Apple is not going back and as you can see form ankhank's experience the new generation is used to something else. Progress or not that is the way it is. We either adapt or die.

I remember when OX10 came around and I complained a lot about how strange it was, blah, blah, system 9, blah, blah! Know what I mean?

> We either adapt or die.

That used to be true. But then the ADA was passed.

Apple has tried to comply with the law.

Apple did quite well with the Macintosh for disabled people who needed particular help with the interface.

Someone in Apple's design-for-sales department decided their preferred customers already got rid of their Macintosh computer, and thinks Apple is only selling to people who own an iPhone and an iPad.

Eventually someone in the human interface group will point out that some people can't adapt and want to keep using the Macintosh. They'll decide to support their "legacy customers."

The company will either adapt or die.

Can't confirm!

I'm in the exact same situation: Wacom user, lots of CS software where arrows used to be really helpful, baffled at this change. Worse, at work I don't have the option of downgrading to Snow Leopard. So, I came up with a somewhat cumbersome solution for it that, though not ideal, allows me to precise scroll up and down while not removing my hand from the Wacom pen.

What I did was go to System Preferences, then adjust the Wacom buttons to execute a custom keystroke. You can choose any keystroke you want, so I assigned an up arrow to one and a down arrow to the other.

It works. Again, far from ideal, because, one, the Wacom pen buttons are not really placed in a way that I would click them when naturally holding the pen. Two, because you may already use your buttons for something else. Lucky that I didn't.

Good luck.

leosantos, thanks for that tip. As you say, the tablet buttons are in a weird place for this but it does work!

Oh, goody, now we have a legitimate reason for ditching the Mighty Mouse and getting a zillion-button Logitech replacement. Note that the Logitech Control Center configuration software lets you remap all of the buttons and scrollers on a global or a per-application basis. And some models have Turbo-Scroll buttons framing the scrollwheel that can be remapped just great for scrollbar arrow substitution.

yeah, thats at the heart of it. try different mouses or wacom tablets all you want, the apple controllers simply aren't a good substitute for the simplicity of its earlier design which gravely degrades the whole person to computer relationship.

theres a shame on you apple.

there a top ten list of good mouse substitutes that mayhaps alleviate the need for the larger scrollbars?