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Originally Posted by Wolfgang
And there IS a difference between scrolling (up and down, side to side) and completely reloading a page. Seems like you should know this......
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Of course. Scrolling involves moving in new material to the viewing area using a wide variety of techniques depending on the underlying hardware support. Reloading a page means redisplaying the same information without updating the display buffer pointers. Of course, I was really talking about paging as in turning the page of a book, which would move the display pointer to a new location and then cause a refresh of the screen with the current page in the display window, but I digress. Pan and refresh v. jump and refresh are, for the most part, hardware ops handling by as little as one location register and one control bit in many modern systems.
I'm sorry to have agitated you. But I haven't had this much fun in a long, long time. Let's call a truce and I'll buy you a good stick and drink if ever we catch up. Okay?