Re: Scrollbar thumbs

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

On 2009-11-03 11:02, joakim@verona.se wrote:
> Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>  writes:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>          Stefan
>>
>
> I dont use scrollbars, so I dont really know, but would it be possible
> to subclass the gtk scrollbars to achive our desired behaviour?

I looked at it once, but no.  You can't override the basic event 
handling in scrollbars, so you still won't get any events when the thumb 
hit the bottom.

	Jan D.