Re: A Scrollable Box Widget

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

Not quite.

when I say they scroll together, I mean as one widget, so you would scroll down
and the headers would scroll off the top of the window, and the eventually the
icon-list would scroll on at the bottom.

Think of it as a large window with the 3 parts stacked up, with the scrollbar
controlling a window sized viewport onto this large window.

+-----------------------------+
| Header 1                    |
+=============================+=+             -------------
| Header 3                    |^|               ^
| Header 4                    |#|               | This is the visible part 
+-----------------------------+#|               | The scrollbar moves this up
and down
| Message text                |#|               |
|                             |#|               | eg clicking up would show
header 2 at 
|                             |O|               | the top, but the last line of
the message
|                             |#|               | would drop off
|                             |#|               |
|                             |#|               |
|                             |V|               V
+=============================+=+             -------------
| Rest of message             |
|                             |
+-----------------------------+
| Icon-list                   |
|                             |
+-----------------------------+

Thanks,
Ian.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:23:55 James M. Cape wrote:
> 
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > I think I haven't explained what I want to do quite well enough. What I am
> > trying to do is make a nice message display widget for Balsa. A message is
> > displayed in several sections:
> > 
> > The headers, a GtkText,
> > The content of the selected part, might be a GtkText or a GtkPixmap -
> > eventually even a GtkHTML etc.
> > The MIME parts list, a gnome icon list.
> > 
> > I want to have all three of these scroll together, using a single scrollbar.
> 
> I see what you are doing as this:
> 
> +---------------------------+-+
> | Message 10                |^|
> | Message 11                |#|
> | Message 12                |#|
> +---------------------------+#|
> | Approx-midway-through-msg |#|
> |                           |O|
> |                           |#|
> |                           |#|
> +---------------------------+#|
> |                           |#|
> | Approx-midway-through-    |#|
> | icon-list                 |v|
> +---------------------------+-+
> 
> So when you scroll along the bar, the message, the icons, and the
> headers all scroll. Is this correct?
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
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Ian Campbell
Churchill College, Cambridge.