Looking forward to seeing this implemented!

On 24 February 2016 at 23:21, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:27:44PM +0000, Alan Third wrote:
> > As far as I can tell the 'right' way to do it is to create an
> > NSScrollView and put your buffer content into another NSView within
> > it. This seems to give you native scrollbars for a lot less work than
> > is being done at the moment. However I think we'd lose the ability to
> > put the vertical scrollbars on the left. I don't know how important
> > that feature is.
> >
> > I think there's a bigger problem, though. It looks to me like the mode
> > line is currently drawn into the same NSView as the rest of the
> > buffer, so just wrapping the current NSView with an NSScrollView would
> > result in the vertical scrollbar overlapping the mode line, and the
> > horizontal scrollbar below it.
>
> Ignore this. After a bit more investigation it looks like it's
> perfectly easy to position the NSScrollers anywhere within an
> NSScrollView, so I'll just shut up now and try implementing it.
>
> --
> Alan Third
>
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