[plt-scheme] scrolling, panels, and pasteboards

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:23:18 0800, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:40:24 -0500, "Corey Sweeney" wrote:
> > I have a panel that is over 5000 pixels high, and would like to make it so
> > it can scroll.  While panels do not have options to scroll, canvases and
> > pasteboards appear to be able to.  Would it be possible to add my panel to a
> > scrolling pasteboard by writeing a snip that was the code that creates my
> > panel?
>
> I think panel-snip% --- a snip that contains a panel% --- is a good
> idea, but it doesn't exist, yet.
>
> Depending on the content of your panel, you might be able to use the
> "embedded-gui" collection. Even if "embedded-gui" has the pieces that
> you need, though, the controls won't look like the ones outside of a
> snip.

As an alternate solution, what would it take to get scrollbars
decoupled from canvases?  Why can't panels have them?  Is this a
limitation of the underlying toolkit, or just a matter of the existing
interface?

-- 
Carl Eastlund