Re: [Fxruby-users] ScrollWindow confusion

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Daniel Sheppard wrote:

> I've been playing around with the scrollwindow widget, and it's causing
> me much confusion. Whatever I try to put into the scrollwindow seems to
> get resized to fit within the scroll window, regardless of what layout
> hints I give it.

I need to add a note on the FOX Community Wiki about this, since it 
comes up a lot. The problem is that some kinds of content windows 
(including the FXCanvas) don't correctly report their default size to 
the scroll window and as a result it doesn't "know" how big they really 
are. A workaround for this with the FXCanvas is to simply place the 
canvas inside some other container (like an FXHorizontalFrame), and 
make that container the child of the scroll window, e.g.

     scroll = FXScrollWindow.new(self, LAYOUT_FILL_X|LAYOUT_FILL_Y)
     canvasFrame = FXHorizontalFrame.new(scroll, 
LAYOUT_FILL_X|LAYOUT_FILL_Y)
     canvas = FXCanvas.new(canvasFrame, nil, 0, LAYOUT_EXPLICIT, 0, 0, 
600, 600)

I think this change will get you the desired effect.

Hope this helps,

Lyle