Scrollbar Question

[Mdobele]

Hi

I am trying to create a Window with a whole bunch of buttons on it. And I want a scrollbar on the side so that I can scroll through the buttons. Whats the best way you go to achieve this? I'm not quite sure how i link a scrollbar to my window so that I can scroll those buttons up and down. Essentually the way a ListBox scrolls through items.
Thanks

An example of what I am trying to do.

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

Currently there is no ready made option available, but it is possible to fake it by using an oversized default window and adjusting it's position when a scrollbar you've attached gets its value changed (I think spannerman / mac did this general approach in thier particle editor).

Or, if you're using CVS head code...

You can wait until Thursday/Friday when I will have finally done the ScrollablePane (and I can hear spannerman rejoice from here ).

CE.

[spannerman]

You can wait until Thursday/Friday when I will have finally done the ScrollablePane (and I can hear spannerman rejoice from here ).

Woohoo!!

Yes, mac and I have two different implementations of a 'scrollable pane'...one for our custom tab control which scrolls some buttons horizontally, and one to scroll a bunch of widgets up/down, hiding/showing the widgets as they are moved. Its all very very messy, so the scrollable pane is going to be an ultra useful addition. I'd wait for that if I was you

[Mdobele]

Sweet thanks guys. Cant wait to use it.

[CrazyEddie]

This will almost certainly get added on Friday. I have it about 80% done, though I've been playing around with things today and am not entirely satisfied with the way it's working; so I'm going to redo some of the more obscure scrolling logic, rather than put out something I know to be sub-standard

CE

[spannerman]

Cool

I eagerly await its arrival, but yes dont rush this little puppy. I imagine theres many more people out there who will find this one useful.

[CrazyEddie]

spannerman wrote:
Cool

I eagerly await its arrival, but yes dont rush this little puppy.

Now you should know by now that I am not one to rush things, how long has it taken me to get around to this

CE.

[spannerman]

CrazyEddie wrote:

Now you should know by now that I am not one to rush things...

Hence the high quality of this GUI and why it is so popular.

CrazyEddie wrote:
how long has it taken me to get around to this

It matters not how long these things take. A real life analogy is Im a begger on the street, and you are a working man walking home. I ask for some change.
I dont care how long it takes for you to reach in your pocket and throw me some coins, because whatever I get Im greatful.

Ok, thats enough arse licking. The moral of the story is if the scrollpane dont work right, Im getting out the bat again

[CrazyEddie]

spannerman wrote:
thats enough arse licking. The moral of the story is if the scrollpane dont work right, Im getting out the bat again

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Not, "the bat"



Quick update: Things are going quite well, mainly just have some property classes to add and then code the windows look variant. There's two small glitches at the moment, one is only of concern when negative relative co-ords are used, and the other is something else ( ), I'll probably not get these fixed before making the component available, mainly so I can get some more feedback

CE.

[Mdobele]

OMG the people on this forum are craaaazy.


Sounds good CE. cant wait to use it.

[spannerman]

Hehe.

CrazyEddie wrote:
... I'll probably not get these fixed before making the component available, mainly so I can get some more feedback

Yup, Im happy to help check whatever you have out and let you know how it goes.

[CrazyEddie]

Mdobele wrote:
OMG the people on this forum are craaaazy.

Mwwhahahahahahhah!

Okay people, the ScrollablePane is now in CVS-HEAD. Best to allow a few hours for anonymous cvs to sync up with the developer cvs; although the snapshot downloads are up-to-date right now, if that is your kind of thing.

Anyway, any problems, don't call me

CE.

[spannerman]

Lol, cool! I'll check this out as soon as I get home, in about 1 hour...

[spannerman]

Just rebuilding everything now. I see youve sneaked tooltips in there too!

[CrazyEddie]

spannerman wrote:
I see youve sneaked tooltips in there too!

Nah, that's just the files that will be the tooltips, I'm still deciding how I want to go about those (I might get them in over the weekend, though).

CE.