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From: dpelland@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Pelland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Help with scrollbars....
Keywords: Scrollbars
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.213253.20233@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 21:32:53 GMT
Sender: David M. Pelland
Organization: University of Lowell Computer Science, Lowell MA
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Could someone please explain to me how I can have a child window
which is of a size larger than the parent window, has scroll bars,
and is easily managed?  The windows x and y position within the parent
is fixed.  I basically want to have the scroll bars modify which piece
of the subwindow the user is viewing at any point.

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|                                  |
|     Status information           |
|                                  |
|           -----------------------|    basically, I want to 
|          |                      ^|    be able to scroll the
|          |                      ||    graphics area without
|  list    |                      ||    it being an overlapped 
|  of      |                      ||    window and without 
|  items   |     graphics         ||    handling it myself.
|          |     window           ||
|          |                      ||
|          |                      v|
|          |<--------------------> |
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This is something easily done in MOTIF, OPEN LOOK and many other window
environments.  I tried a bunch of things but can't seem to get it to work
properly.  Any help is greatly appreciated, even if it is just to tell
me that I must handle the whole thing myself. 

David M Pelland
dpelland@hawk.ulowell.edu
(508)934-3613