> From: Ford, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I can place a scrollbar on the form where I want it, all I need
> to do is tell Constructor to bind the scrollbar to the field.
It doesn't work that way. In Constructor you can only place the scrollbar
where you want it, and then you need to write some glue code in your app to
"bind" the scrollbar and the field. There is no automatic scrollbar
behavior for fields, such as there is in Windows. See the Memo Pad source
to see how to implement all this.
> There's a "Has scroll bar" checkbox on the Field layout properties
> screen, but it doesn't seem to do anything and there's no obvious way
> to identify which scrollbar it should be using.
That property really just tells the field to fire off more fldChanged events
than it otherwise would, which your own code must handle to update the
scrollbar when the user navigates around in the field.
(The OS source is really valuable for understanding this stuff.)
This all can be a pain but is actually very flexible. Suppose you wanted a
field to be full screen width and do scrolling with little arrow buttons
elsewhere on the screen, instead of with a scrollbar on the side. You could
implement it using mostly the same code.
-slj-
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