disabling scrolling through images but not previous / next buttons

[Andy2No]

Before I make this a feature request, or a bug report, I'd like to make sure it can't be done already.

I find the way Irfanview (4.0) scrolls through a folder with the scroll wheel less than useful because it's very difficult to control it with my touchpad. I only do it by accident. I use a touchpad with scroll bars so there are no clicks to give positive feedback of the position. In a folder with a lot of images, it scrolls through them so fast I may as well be being given a random image.

The only way I can turn it off is to untick the first option under Options->Properties->Misc 1 (View all files in directory...) but that stops me being able to move through the folder at all, even using the Previous file / Next file buttons on the tool bar. Surely, that's a bug?

Is there currently any way to disable the overly enthusiastic scrolling through images in the folder with the scroll wheel, without losing the feature of moving throug the files all together?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

It is pretty fast with a scroll-wheel mouse too. Do you have left and right cursor keys on your keyboard? Otherwise, try thumbnail view (T).

I don't see why you need to disable the touchpad feature if you can click the toolbar buttons instead.

[Andy2No]

I need to disable it simply because I do it by accident, quite often. Which means I quite often find myself looking at a completely different image than the one I was trying to look at. That wouldn't happen with a scroll wheel mouse but it happens too often with a touch pad.

Also, when I'm viewing a large image that isn't resized to fit the window, I use scrolling to look at different parts of the picture. So, depending on the magnification level, the scroll bar does two very different things, which I really don't like and find confusing.

If I could disable the View all files in a folder option but still use the Next and Previous buttons on the tool bar, that would make sense to me. I don't really mind whether clicking the image moves to the next or previous one or not, so whether I have independant control over enabling/disabling the scrolling with the scroll bar function isn't important, I just need to be able to turn it off and still have some way of moving through the images in the folder, e.g. with the tool bar buttons.