[plt-scheme] scrollable pane

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri May 15 13:33:19 EDT 2009

Matthew is doing that.

Robby

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle
<stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi, from following the dev list I understand there is a move try migrate
> parts of the GUI from C to Scheme.  I don't know the status, but it might be
> worth checking out. (I think Robby F was working on it?)
>
> S.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Carl Eastlund <carl.eastlund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > How does one make a scrollable pane/window with the mred toolbox?
>> > Currently
>> > I have a vertical-pane% and I add enough elements to it to go over the
>> > 10,000 pixel limit. If I use list-box% instead and convert my elements
>> > to
>> > strings then its fine, so I figure a scrollable vertical-pane% won't
>> > throw
>> > an error with too many objects.
>> >
>> > It looks like I want something like [style '(vscroll)] but only canvas
>> > supports that.
>>
>> At the moment I believe there is no way -- only canvases can have
>> scrollbars.  I have in the past tried ways to "fake it" by overlaying
>> a pane and a canvas and tying their movement together manually, but I
>> never worked it out with any great success.  If someone can work it
>> out, it would be a great planet package.
>>
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