Re: Scrollbar size flaky on OS X

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> That's exactly what it represent: the ratio slider/total is the same as
>> the
>> ratio shownchars/buffercharsize.  But depending on where you are in the
>> buffer the window will not always show the same number of chars, so the
>> size
>> of the slider changes accordingly.

> Not sure if that gets updated correctly.
> Take a look at the three screenshots I put up here:

> http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dreitter/scrollbar-issue/

> You'll see some random document in a buffer. Screenshots 1 and 2 show
> different parts of the document, and you see that the slider has a totally
> different size. To me as a user, it looks like we're seeing about the same
> amount of the buffer in the window. So why does the slider have
> a different size?
> If I play around (scroll back and forth) a little more, you can see what
> happens - screenshot 3 shows the same portion of the buffer as in 2, but
> this time with a very small slider.

> According to your explanation and looking at the size of the buffer,
> screenshots 1 and 3 are correct, but 2 is not.

Looks like a bug indeed.


        Stefan