Re: [Tile-dev] Heads up -- upcoming changes

[Damon C. <dam...@tc...>]

> One instance where it would be nice to "fiddle with the damn scrollbars"
> is in an application like tkdiff, which has a special scrollbar that has
> graphical elements (colored lines) in the trough.
>
> I was experimenting with this the other day and was able to use a
> dynamic photo image in the trough area. It was pretty neat having a
> "real" scrollbar with a drawable area in it.
>
> Admittedly, that's a fairly unique thing to do, and could be done other
> ways (such as how tkdiff does it today...).

    And, while I agree that that's REALLY cool, I don't think ANY of the
"native" scrollbars will give you that kind of action.  Heck, even the
current Tk scrollbar doesn't have that kind of customizability. 
You're always going to have to roll your own for that.

Damon