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From: john@basho.uucp (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Scrolling a small TextEdit rectangle.
Message-ID: <1991May5.155632.22324@basho.uucp>
Date: 5 May 91 15:56:32 GMT
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I have a small TextEdit rectangle (in a modeless dialog), and I can't
decide how to scroll it.  It's only two lines high, and scrolls
vertically.

That makes it too short for a vertical scroll bar (which really only
starts to look reasonable on something about 64 pixels high, and this
rectangle is 42 pixels high).

I could design my own control, though I've never done that.  My idea
is to use a scroll bar, but without the arrows. I would just use the
thumb control.

I was trying to think of similar things elsewhere in the Macintosh,
and I wonder, why doesn't the comments field in the Finder's Get Info
dialog have a scroll bar?  Is the existing design acceptable?  Does
Finder 7.0 behave the same way?

Any advice or ideas would be appreciated (particularly control def
code for a scroll bar without arrows :-).


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