Re: Using defcustom to set width and height for set-window-scroll-bars

[Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>]

On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 11:03 PM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 6:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 00:34:23 +0000
> > > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > > 
> > > Am using a defcustom to specify the scroll bar size (width, height) in pixels
> > > for use with set-window-scroll-bars
> > > 
> > > Emacs seems to get confused in applying width and height.
> > > 
> > > (defcustom bdrive-barsize 80
> > > "Customizable variable to store the scroll bar size in pixels."
> > > :type 'integer
> > > :group 'bdrive)
> > > 
> > > (let ( (window (selected-window))
> > > (width bdrive-barsize)
> > > (vertical-type 'right)
> > > (height bdrive-barsize)
> > > (horizontal-type 'bottom)
> > > (persistent nil) )
> > > (set-window-scroll-bars window width vertical-type
> > > height horizontal-type persistent))
> > 
> > "Confused" how? The above snippet works for me.
> 
> 
> The size of the scroll bars that appear do not look correct to me,
> they seem too small.

Is defcustom with ":type 'integer", the right thing to do in order to allow
users to customise width and height  ?