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Bug 180027

Summary:

Text scrollbar always visible

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, markus.kell.r

Version:

3.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
With V_SCROLL, short text	none
no V_SCROLL, no scrollbars ever	none

Description Nick Edgar

2007-03-29 12:19:50 EDT

3.3 M5

In a dialog with a multi-line text, I'd like to have it show the scrollbar only if needed.  If I specify V_SCROLL, it always appears currently.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2007-03-29 12:20:41 EDT

back-ref four our bug db: #19596

Comment 2 Steve Northover

2007-03-29 18:20:14 EDT

Scroll bar display policy is operating system specific.  We can't/shouldn't change this.

Comment 3 Steve Northover

2007-03-29 18:20:54 EDT

You could use SWT.WRAP and not specify SWT.V_SCROLL?  Anyhow, WONTFIX.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2007-03-30 09:05:18 EDT

I am specifying WRAP, and tried V_SCROLL with it, but that still makes the scroll bar always appear, not just when the text exceeds the vertical space.

Comment 5 Nick Edgar

2007-03-30 09:05:54 EDT

> You could use SWT.WRAP and not specify SWT.V_SCROLL
Sorry, yes, that's what I decided on.  But it means no scroll bar appears when the text -does- exceed the vertical space.

Comment 6 Steve Northover

2007-03-30 09:11:49 EDT

The vertical scroll bar will always appear, unless you don't specify V_SCROLL.  I think you should just give in to the platforms look and feel.  Does the text control really look that ugly in your application?

Comment 7 Nick Edgar

2007-03-30 09:31:36 EDT

"give in to the platforms look and feel" == "surrender to the dark side"

> Does the text control really look that ugly in your application?
It's a small box as part of an editor, so it does look quite bad with the (disabled until needed) scrollbar there.

Comment 8 Steve Northover

2007-03-30 09:39:45 EDT

Nick, how far you have fallen.  The operating system is your friend.  Have you run your application on Vista yet?  If built from standard widgets, it probably looks pretty good.

Please attach a screen shot or show me the bad scroll bar look.

Comment 9 Kaitlin Duck Sherwood

2012-07-11 12:28:00 EDT

Created attachment 218581 [details]
With V_SCROLL, short text

Here is an example of the "empty scrollbars" looking ugly.

On Mac OS X 10.6.8 and SWT 3.7.2v3740f, if V_SCROLL is added, the scrollbars always show.

This is the line of code which produced this text box:

descriptionText = new Text(descriptionComposite, SWT.WRAP | SWT.READ_ONLY | SWT.V_SCROLL);

Comment 10 Kaitlin Duck Sherwood

2012-07-11 12:30:30 EDT

Created attachment 218582 [details]
no V_SCROLL, no scrollbars ever

On Mac OS X 10.6.8 and SWT 3.7.2v3740f, if V_SCROLL not added, the scrollbars never show.

This is the line of text which produced the text box in this image:
   descriptionText = new Text(descriptionComposite, SWT.WRAP | SWT.READ_ONLY);

(The full text in the description is about twice as long as what shows.)

Comment 11 Markus Keller

2012-07-11 19:12:21 EDT

Kate: In 3.8, you can use StyledText and call setAlwaysShowScrollBars(false).