textbox scrollbars hidden until needed?

[Chris Holbrook]

Sad to relate that I have no idea how to draw a textbox whose scrollbars appear only when needed. So that for example, the horizontal scrollbar appears if the text added is too long for the width of the textbox.

[Adam J. Drake]

I guess I've just gotten used to it being disabled and visible and enables itself if needed...

[Chris Holbrook]

visible

That's the problem. Hideous on a colored background.

[Chris Holbrook]

funny, you can do it with Listboxen but when the scrollbar is hidden the space which it would have occupied is filled with white or something very like it, just as ugly.

Will have to go to plan B, using a label and wrapping the long string inside it - I know that labels have a wordwrap property but this string is a path which may or may not have spaces.

[Bud Meyer]

Use a rich edit textbox instead. It auto hides scrollbars when they're not needed.

[Cliff Nichols]

I agree with Bud, and I only discovered this happenstance yesterday while updating some old code to concepts I now understand.

Makes for a cleaner looking form (but most of us overlook the scrollbars because they have always been there) so when I tried RichEdit, I lost an hour trying to figure out why scrollbars were not showing until I either spaced off screen, or $CR down off screen and it hit me no more greyed out scrollbars....I like it.

[Dave Biggs]

funny, you can do it with Listboxen but...

Is that using style %WS_HSCROLL and %LB_SETHORIZONTALEXTENT ? I've used that before without problems (maybe default background though).

.. but this string is a path which may or may not have spaces.

For Windows NT and later, maybe a %SS_PATHELLIPSIS styled label would do?

[Chris Holbrook]

For Windows NT and later, maybe a %SS_PATHELLIPSIS styled label would do?

Yes it would and thank you very much Dave!