I was beginning to suspect this is how it works... well, I guess that
answers the question.
Thanks,
Pete
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott L. Johnson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Scrollbars in Constructor
>
> > 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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