Any way to turn off tooltip auto-scroll, or slow it down?

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neil f
Jan 31, 2009
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The ‘auto-scroll’ feature in PSE is making any serious work impossible on my system. I can’t believe it’s meant to be this way as standard.

When PSE detects the tooltip is approaching the edge of an image, the whole image is whipped up, down or sideways in a flash and scoots off screen almost completely, leaving the tool marooned way over on the grey frame background. I then have to manually use the scroll bars to bring the picture back on screen before I can continue working. This isn’t so much of a problem when the zoomed right in as the auto-scrolling seems slower at large sizes, but auto-scrolling still takes place even when I’m zoomed out and the whole picture is visible with grey border around it.

Is there any way to turn this auto-scroll feature off, or at least slow it down to a crawl so I can control it or react to the move before it’s gone too far?

Alternatively, is there any way to reduce the huge acreage of grey space that seems to surround every picture? It’s this grey space that allows the picture to disappear off screen.

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neil f
Feb 1, 2009
"neil f" wrote in message
| The ‘auto-scroll’ feature in PSE is making any serious work impossible on my
| system. I can’t believe it’s meant to be this way as standard. |
| When PSE detects the tooltip is approaching the edge of an image, the whole
| image is whipped up, down or sideways in a flash and scoots off screen | almost completely, leaving the tool marooned way over on the grey frame | background. I then have to manually use the scroll bars to bring the picture
| back on screen before I can continue working. This isn’t so much of a | problem when the zoomed right in as the auto-scrolling seems slower at large
| sizes, but auto-scrolling still takes place even when I’m zoomed out and the
| whole picture is visible with grey border around it.
|
| Is there any way to turn this auto-scroll feature off, or at least slow it | down to a crawl so I can control it or react to the move before it’s gone | too far?
|
| Alternatively, is there any way to reduce the huge acreage of grey space | that seems to surround every picture? It’s this grey space that allows the | picture to disappear off screen.
|

I think I’ve sorted my own problem, in case it’s of help to later searchers. It’s always obvious when you know how 🙂

Seems I was stuck in ‘maximize windows’ mode, where scroll bars are present permanently. Once I clicked on the ‘double box’ symbol (or whatever it’s called) in the top right of the main window, each picture appears in its own separate window and the huge grey borders are gone – and with it my impossible auto-scroll problem.

Hope that helps someone else in the future as I’ve seen other queries on the Web from people similarly stumped by the tooltip auto-scroll.

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