Making the PgDn function smarter in Opus

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Quite often am clicking through long lists of MP3 files or similar, to search for some certain song, where i do not remember its exact name, or abbreviation (in my old vinyl collection), so that i could simply use F3 to search the contents. When i reach the end of the list, i can either push the down arrow, which isn't the best way to progress, or the PgDn key.

My suggestion is, if i'm on the last or second last item in the list, that PgDn in Opus would not retain the cursors position in the next page, leaving a "hole", but would set the cursor in a "seamless" way, having the item selected on top of the list, that was the next one to the selected file in the previous page. I don't know, if this makes sense for other users, but i think it would be a smart solution. Maybe it would also be possible the other way around, when using PgUp.

Edit: an alternative would be, that pushing the down arrow on the last item of a page would act as a PgDn, with said properties.

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Page Down and Page Up intentionally try to ensure that the last visible item before you change page is the first visible item after you change page, so that you know nothing was skipped and have some continuity between pages.

This is pretty normal, at least in apps where someone thought about it. :slight_smile:

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Yes, it´s normal. But that was my concern. To put the focus put in a smarter place, with the new scrolling page. Now i always have to push pos1, to skip through the page, to start from the top. I was thinking about some "continuous" scrolling mode. If i have the focus at the bottom of a lister, say, file No. 23, pushing the down arrow wouldn´t push just one row up, like now, but would browse the next page, like PgDn, but with the focus at the top of the list.