The visual component of a scrollbar that moves to indicate your current position within the data. -FW
PT 12-Aug-2003: This is more usually termed the scrollbar thumb.
FW: Hm. While thumb is more common (I just did a Google search comparing them - news to me), I think elevator is Microsoft's term for it (not that they're the authority, but the majority of Tcl coders do use Windows).
RS didn't know either term - for vertical scrollbars, "elevator" tells it quite nicely, but a horizontal one?
Mike Tuxford: Hmmm, do I see a poll coming up? Windows has what, about 90% of the desktop market? My knee-jerk reaction is that I doubt a poll would show Tcl programmers to be 90% windows users.
FW: No, it's more like 60%, right? I only vaguely remember the figure.
RS codes on Win2k, Solaris, Linux at work, and W95 and Windows/CE at home. Who cares for the OS when he has Tcl? ;-) MT: A lot of people might care. I once watched someone on irc say something like "yeah but most perl programmers are windows users". The resul was not a pretty sight. ;)