scrolling

To move forward and back (or up and down) through a series of items. Referring to a screen array, scrolling is the action of bringing invisible lines into view. Displayed data can be scrolled either vertically (to bring different rows into view) or horizontally (to show different columns). Referring to database cursors, a sequential cursor can return only the current row and cannot return to it; but a scroll cursor can fetch any row in the active set. Thus a scrolling cursor can be used to implement a scrolling screen display.

See also cursor, screen array.