Version 14 of scrodget

ABU 26-jan-2005 - created

 [ABU] 1-feb-2005 - Updated ... see below

Scrodget is a generic scrolled widget implemented with snit.

It is very similar to the Bwidget's ScrolledWindow (with the added capability to place (automatic) scrollbars on top/bottom left/right.

Here is a sample:

Start page and download links at [L1 ]

Remember that Tcl/Tk source script widgets can be submitted to tklib for more general distribution.

PWQ What if I want scroll bars on left and right?

ABU ??? It is a relly unusual demand ... 1-feb-2005 Done.

Peter Newman 27 January 2005: Scrodget looks great. I use BWidgets ScrolledWindow a lot - but one thing that annoys me about it is that you can't turn auto-hiding off (and have either or both scrollbars fixed).

Scrodget fixes that. But it would be better if one could enable/disable autohiding, for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars, separately. Any chance of this?

Also PWQ's request for left AND/or right (and top AND/or bottom) is a bit unusual I agree. But a single Scrollbar Manager widget, that can be configured for every conceivable arrangement, would be very useful. And if you were able to do this, being able to enable/disable auto-hiding for the left, right, top and bottom scrollbars, individually, would IMHO be the best way to go.

ABU 1-feb-2005

Scrodget has been updated. First of all, you can download version 1.0.1 which solves some little BUGS.

Second, version 1.1 is available: it allows you to enable/disable autohiding, for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars, separately.

Third, version 2.0 allows you to enable 4 scrollbars (east/west/north/south).

Version 1.0.1 [L2 ]
Version 1.1 [L3 ]
Version 2.0 [L4 ]

Peter Newman 4 February 2005: Version 2 looks good. But I think you've got west and east mixed up. West is left and east is right; you have them the other way round. Specifying the scrollbar sides with news is an excellent idea. But why not specify the auto-hiding the same way?

ABU .. really a stupid error of mine.

Here is an On-fly patch : file "scrodget.tcl" replace

    typevariable GridIdx  -array {
       n { 0 1 }
       s { 2 1 }
       e { 1 0 }
       w { 1 2 }
    }

with

    typevariable GridIdx  -array {
       n { 0 1 }
       s { 2 1 }
       w { 1 0 }
       e { 1 2 }
    }