Scroll Bar Issues

[Castania]

I know . . . there are a lot of scroll bar issues . . . I'm willing to do the leg work, just not sure what to look for:

I'm running Wine 1.6.2 under Xubuntu 14.04 (Trusty).

I have several windows programs installed, each with their own prefix. Since I'm an "end-user," I have never altered the default settings for any prefix: I installed the windows software using the installation exe,msi that it came with and accepted what it did.

This has worked fairly well . . . except for two programs: Examview and Easy Grade Pro. (Yes, I'm a teacher.) On one (Examview), the right side windows scroll bar will move with the mouse wheel, but *not* with the mouse pointer. That is, I can spin the mouse wheel and negotiate the page vertically, but if I reach over with the arrow and attempt to grab the scroll bar, nothing happens: it's as if the scroll bar isn't there.

On another program (EGP), the scroll bar works with the mouse pointer, but *not* with the wheel.

Again, on the other programs I've installed, the mouse wheel and pointer work as expected: it's just these two programs. When the programs are installed on Windows machines (of course) everything works as it should.

I can't seem to find any information that will lead me to an answer as to why or how to fix the issue.

I'm use both of these programs frequently, so the quirks are very annoying and do little to help the case of "You should use Linux . . ."

Any help/insight would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ken

[dimesio]

Normally the first piece of advice I would give you would be to upgrade to the latest development release, but since I use Examview myself (I'm a teacher, too), I can tell you that upgrading won't fix the scrollbar issue for that app. It's never bothered me enough to file a bug for it, but if you want to, I can confirm it. Severity should be set to trivial.

I don't use EGP, so I don't know if upgrading will help with that. It's worth a try.

[Castania]

Yeah -- this issue has been with me for a while, at least through a couple of Xubuntus.

I've wondered if it's some missing *.dll, but I'm clueless if that's plausible and if so, which one.

Ken

[dimesio]

Does the demo of EGP have the same problem on your system? Because I just tried it, and scrolling works fine for me in 1.7.29 with both the wheel and the pointer.