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Odd scrollbar behavior in NT


System:   any Category:   graphics Last Modified:   12/09/98
OS version:   NT 4.0 Product:   OpenGL Service Pack:  
Description

I am experiencing odd scrollbar behavior in NT. Do you have any ideas as to why, and what I can do about the behavior?

Problem Resolution

If you are used to Motif, Windows scrollbar behavior will at first be a bit of an annoyance. There is not currently a work-around for the differences one will experience.

The good news is that most end-users are used to the behavior, which largely consists of:

  • Scrollbars "snap" to old position when mouse gets too far away from the scrollbar. This places the user back to the position on which the bar was first clicked.

  • Scrollbars do not resize automatically to indicate length of content. Fortunately, this behavior can be implemented by the application programmer. In Motif, the scrollbar shrinks to indicate longer documents; in Windows, the scrollbar width is set by the application.


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