Re: Scrollbar thumbs

["grischka" <grishka@gmx.de>]

>> I guess it is just that these GUI toolkit people usually are trained to
>> deliver good looking and pixel-precise artwork and in consequence might have
>> some difficulties to imagine how it can be "pretty much impossibe" for some
>> editor to know how many lines it is actually displaying (or anyway that such
>> editor would still want to use their scrollbars).
> 
> No, sadly, it is really due to dogma: your above explanation would make
> perfect sense, but in practice, even after showing them our problem,
> they still insist that it would be wrong for them to remove the chunks
> of code that enforce the "scrollbar metaphor" by preventing the client
> from getting the events that indicate that the user wants to move the
> thumb's bottom further down than the scrollbar's own bottom.

I don't see any dogma beyond the dogma of consistent design which is not 
something a toolkit designer can be blamed for.

Also by saying "our problem" you already realized that is your problem 
and not theirs.  In a free world, why should they cripple their code 
just to save you from having to find the right solution within your own
program.  That would be two times wrong.

--- grischka