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\section{Scrolling overview}\label{scrollingoverview}
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Classes: \helpref{wxWindow}{wxwindow}, \helpref{wxScrolledWindow}{wxscrolledwindow}, \helpref{wxIcon}{wxicon}, \helpref{wxScrollBar}{wxscrollbar}.
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Scrollbars come in various guises in wxWindows. All windows have the potential
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to show a vertical scrollbar and/or a horizontal scrollbar: it's a basic capability of a window.
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However, in practice, not all windows do make use of scrollbars, such as a single-line wxTextCtrl.
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Because any class derived from \helpref{wxWindow}{wxwindow} may have scrollbars,
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there are functions to manipulate the scrollbars and event handlers to intercept
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scroll events. But just because a window generates a scroll event, doesn't mean
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that the window necessarily handles it and physically scrolls the window. The base class
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wxWindow in fact doesn't have any default functionality to handle scroll events.
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If you created a wxWindow object with scrollbars, and then clicked on the scrollbars, nothing
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at all would happen. This is deliberate, because the {\it interpretation} of scroll
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events varies from one window class to another.
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\helpref{wxScrolledWindow}{wxscrolledwindow} (formerly wxCanvas) is an example of a window that
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adds functionality to make scrolling really work. It assumes that scrolling happens in
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consistent units, not different-sized jumps, and that page size is represented
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by the visible portion of the window. It's suited to drawing applications, but perhaps
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not so suitable for a sophisticated editor in which the amount scrolled may vary according
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to the size of text on a given line. For this, you would derive from wxWindow and
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implement scrolling yourself. \helpref{wxGrid}{wxgrid} is an example of a class
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that implements its own scrolling, largely because columns and rows can vary in size.
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\wxheading{The scrollbar model}
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The function \helpref{wxWindow::SetScrollbar}{wxwindowsetscrollbar} gives a clue about
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the way a scrollbar is modelled. This function takes the following arguments:
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\twocolwidtha{5cm}%
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\begin{twocollist}
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\twocolitem{orientation}{Which scrollbar: wxVERTICAL or wxHORIZONTAL.}
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\twocolitem{position}{The position of the scrollbar in scroll units.}
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\twocolitem{visible}{The size of the visible portion of the scrollbar, in scroll units.}
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\twocolitem{range}{The maximum position of the scrollbar.}
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\twocolitem{refresh}{Whether the scrollbar should be repainted.}
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\end{twocollist}%
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{\it orientation} determines whether we're talking about
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the built-in horizontal or vertical scrollbar.
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{\it position} is simply the position of the `thumb' (the bit you drag to scroll around).
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It's given in scroll units, and so is relative to the total range of the scrollbar.
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{\it visible} gives the number of scroll units that represents the portion of the
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window currently visible. Normally, a scrollbar is capable of indicating this visually
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by showing a different length of thumb.
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{\it range} is the maximum value of the scrollbar, where zero is the start
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position. You choose the units that suit you,
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so if you wanted to display text that has 100 lines, you would set this to 100.
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Note that this doesn't have to correspond to the number of pixels scrolled - it's
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up to you how you actually show the contents of the window.
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{\it refresh} just indicates whether the scrollbar should be repainted immediately or not.
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\wxheading{An example}
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Let's say you wish to display 50 lines of text, using the same font.
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The window is sized so that you can only see 16 lines at a time.
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You would use:
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{\small%
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\begin{verbatim}
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SetScrollbar(wxVERTICAL, 0, 16, 50);
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\end{verbatim}
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}
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Note that with the window at this size, the thumb position can never go
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above 50 minus 16, or 34.
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You can determine how many lines are currently visible by dividing the current view
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size by the character height in pixels.
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When defining your own scrollbar behaviour, you will always need to recalculate
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the scrollbar settings when the window size changes. You could therefore put your
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scrollbar calculations and SetScrollbar
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call into a function named AdjustScrollbars, which can be called initially and also
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from your \helpref{wxWindow::OnSize}{wxwindowonsize} event handler function.
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%\normalbox{{\bf For Windows programmers:} note that scrollbar range in wxWindows has a different meaning
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%from that in Windows. In native Windows scrollbar calls, range is the number of positions that the scrollbar
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%can physically scroll through - in our example above, it would be 34. But it's easier
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%to think in terms of the number of units that the whole scrollbar represents - the virtual
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%window size - which is why wxWindows does it differently.}
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