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Hi,

is there someone who knows how to fix this problem:

Scrolling does not stop whenever the mouse cursor leaves the VBox area.

e.g:
- I've opened VBox (1.5.4 or 1.5.6, any window mode - normal, maximized, fullscreen, it does not make any difference)
- Excel is open (maximized or not)
- I try to autofill some rows (e.g. line 1 to 500) by using the mouse
- I'm moving the mouse cursor outside the VBox guest window
=> scrolling won't stop, even when I'm returning the cursor inside the guest window area...
- similar attitute is shown by other software (e.g. word) by marking text but not by e.g. the windows editor.

thanks for your ideas
orvil

I don't have a solution, but noticed the date on the original post and wanted to bump this back to the top. I too have the same problem with Excel 2007, but it does not appear to matter if the cursor leaves the Vbox area or not. I am running full screen and seem to get the problem when I attempt to highlight multiple lines in a spreadsheet for the purpose of copying and pasting. I put the cursor along the left side of the spreadsheet, select a row, click and hold the left mouse button and begin to pull the mouse down the sheet so as to highlight multiple rows. When I let go of the left mouse button, scrolling continues. After a few seconds of trying to click various parts of the screen, the screen dims a bit, indicating the application has locked up. I am using UBUNTU 8.04. When an application running in Ubuntu locks up, it dims and turns slightly gray indicating a problem has occurred or is occurring. Other distros may behave differently.

My only solution at this point is to do a -Force Quit- and restart the virtual machine. Certainly not desirable.

My setup:
Ubuntu 8.04 (host) running on a Compaq Presario A900 series laptop with 3GB memory.
VBox 1.6.2 with 16MB video memory and 1GB Base memory assigned to the virtual machine
Windows XP running as guest running in a full-screen window (not Full-screen mode)
Apps typically running when the error occurs: Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Accounting 2008, Windows Explorer.

I can't reproduce this. I click inside Excel 2007, hold the button, drag my mouse outside the VB window onto my panel, release the button and the scroll stops. Same with Windows Explorer in the Windows folder (that had enough files for a scroll).

Try clicking on one of the column numbers along the left side of the spreadsheet. While holding the left mouse button pull down the left side of the spreadsheet until you go beyond the bottom of the visible page and the row numbers start scrolling up. While this is happening slide your cursor off the left side of the spreadsheet and the VB window. Let go of the mouse. My spreadsheet consistently continues to scroll.

If I click/hold/scroll/release anywhere inside the spreadsheet or VB window, everything is fine. Scrolling stops. The problem on my machine seems to involve simultaneously holding the mouse button scrolling down past the bottom of the page and simultaneously drifting off the left side of the window.

Sorry, but I simply can't get that to work. I do exactly as you say, click on a cell, drag it down so it starts to scroll, then leave the VB window on either the left side or bottom. Even selecting the whole row doesn't trigger this continuous scrolling.

I don't know. It happens on my setup pretty consistently. I work around it by trying to remember to pull my cursor to the right whil scrolling to prevent going outside the window, but sometimes I forget. Its annoying.

Maybe the problem lies in the exact VB version being used, or the Windows version, or the Excel version, or the Distro, or the VB setup, or the hardware, or some bad-luck combination of all of the above.

All I know is that for me its very real and very annoying.

Now your first idea of what it could be, could very well end this. I always run the latest version. As you run 1.6.2, you should at least upgrade to 1.6.6 or higher (either 1.6.6 or 2.0.6). 2.1.0 is an option, but there are a bit too many bugs yet (though not this one ).