[linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

[Paul Winkler]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 04:22:36PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I suspect that a GUI programmer or interface designer would expect
> things to increase from top to bottom.  In GUI programming, the origin
> is at the top left of the screen, and X,Y coorinates increase going
> right and down respectively.  I am not sure why they didn't just follow
> the Cartesian conventions here, but I believe it has been this way
> forever.

I believe it's a historical artifact of early GUI software being
pretty close to the hardware. CRT screens put the origin at top
left and scan from left to right, top down.

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Paul Winkler
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