Horizontal scrolling in grids

[penCsharpener]

Current behavior

• mouse wheel without function key pressed scrolls up and down a table
• mouse wheel with shift pressed moves the selected row/cell
• mouse wheel with ctrl pressed zooms the table
• mouse wheel with alt is just normal scrolling

Expected behavior

• horizontally scrolling with mouse wheel is somehow possible
• avoids having to use the scroll bar with the mouse pointer

Possible solution

• I don't think it's wise to change present/establish functionality but I'd like horizontal scrolling of a table with lots of columns with shift + mouse wheel. Since it's already used alt + mouse wheel would work as well

Environment

• HeidiSQL version:
  9.5.0.5248
• Operating system:
  Windows 10 1709

[ansgarbecker]

I'm confused. Are you sure you did not mix up vertical with horizontal?

[penCsharpener]

🤦‍♂️ totally! I will correct it. maybe it's time for me to be horizontal now ;-) 🛌

[lukinhaspm]

hello @penCsharpener ! If you click with the mouse wheel, you can roll to up, down and both sides... your idea to use ctrl or shift will n direction with other mouse wheel functions (like zoon)

[ansgarbecker]

Alt + MouseWheel is indeed unused currently, so I should add that.

Also note, that if a grid has only a few rows fitting to your vertical space, then your mouse wheel already scrolls horizontally. But of course this issue is about scrolling horizontally when there are more rows than the screen has vertical space for.

[ansgarbecker]

The next build should work with Alt+Mousewheel in all grids.

[penCsharpener]

wow, that was fast. looking forward to the next nightly.
thanks a lot for this!

[penCsharpener]

Just tested it and it works well. It's a great addition.

However out of curiosity, what is the use case for the current behaviour of shift + mouse wheel?
I'm asking because shift usually represents the reverse of another short cut (alt + tab to go through opened Windows applications and shift + alt + tab to go through the same list in the opposite direction). Swapping shift + mouse wheel and alt + mouse wheel might make more sense to new users.

I would think it more natural if the horizontal scrolling would be shift + mouse wheel since that is also what some other tools do (Adobe Reader, Firefox, Chrome to name a few that even support it).

[ansgarbecker]

Revision: d60d3f3
Date: 11.12.2010 08:25:19
Message: Focus next or previous grid node on Shift+MouseWheel, in all trees. See http://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=7269

[ansgarbecker]

I'm with you with the "inversing functionality with shift" argument, as I'm personally also used to that. Probably I should switch the Alt logic with the Shift logic. What do you think?

[penCsharpener]

Would be my preference as well. But I just read that forum post and if user AliG is now pretty used to the way it was that last 7 years then an option in preference would be in order. Default setting would be what it is now since that has a long history and optionally the user can switch around that logic.

[ansgarbecker]

To be honest, I don't think many users apart from that forum reporter knows about Shift+Mousewheel. So I guess switching these is a good idea.