I can't Scroll Down While A Project Is Running?

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If this is a duplicate topic, feel free to close it and direct me to the proper topic.

This account is new to this website but I've used this account for educational purposes before from 2022-2023 and I have no clue if it's a problem with "my" laptop or if everyone's been having this problem because I didn't have this problem before until now but for some reason I can't scroll down when the project is running or when I just clicked on the project and haven't pressed the flag yet unless I stop the entire project. Not only does it refuse to let me scroll with the arrow keys, but also with the scrollbar. Has anyone else had this problem?

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This is not a bug, it's a feature. It's just to try and keep the project player in view. Honestly I don't like it, but it is like this by design.

In order to be able to scroll, just click outside the project player, and the scroll lock will be removed.

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Oooooooh, I see it now. I guess when I used it, it just used to be like that. Thanks :grinning:

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As far as I can remember, it's always been like this (they never changed any behavior).

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Oooooooh okay :grinning:

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Oh, I didn't realize this is a misfeature; I thought it was a browser limitation!

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hmm... I'm not in charge of the community website, but I don't think this is intentional, but I also don't think it's a bug, it's an issue of where the user input "focus" is. Inside Snap! we capture user input such as arrow keys and mouse movements, because your project might be using it. Therefore, of course there will be a conflict if you use the arrow keys while the Snap! project frame has focus, i.e. after you've clicked on the green flag. However, if you shift the input focus to another element outside of the project frame, e.g. by clicking elsewhere on the page, you can totally scroll the whole page with either your arrow keys or the scroll bars, even if you have a page with multiple running Snap! projects on it.

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Ah. Thinking this over, what I instinctively expect is that arrow keys will go to Snap! but my scroll wheel will scroll the entire page -- even though when I'm in the editor I expect the scroll wheel to scroll the scripting area or palette or whatever. I don't suppose that level of fine tuning really makes sense, though.

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I can tell that the community site is running some code to lock the scrolling, because when you click on the project player, the page scrolls up to the top, and then you can't scroll. If it were just a focus issue, the page wouldn't scroll back up to the top (and this is while using the mouse wheel, it makes perfect sense as to why the arrow keys don't work).