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Re: Nested window question

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          Rik Griffin <nospam@denbridgemarine.com> wrote:

> Imagine an application with a window, within which is nested another
> window. Lets call the parent window 'A' and the nested child 'B'.

> I want A's scroll bar[s] to scroll window B, without scrolling window A.
> They'd both have to have the same extent in the relevant direction, but
> that's easy enough to arrange.

> Is this possible, and if so can someone give me a clue how to go about it?

You can do that by creating A without a scroll bar and adding another 
nested window C that is just a scroll bar located at the position 
where A's scroll bar would normally be. Then, when you get open (or 
scroll) requests for C, you open both C and B at the given scroll 
position.

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Martin
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Nested window question Rik Griffin <nospam@denbridgemarine.com> - 2011-11-22 13:11 +0000
  Re: Nested window question Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-11-22 16:51 +0100
    Re: Nested window question Rik Griffin <rik.griffin@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-23 13:54 +0000
    Re: Nested window question Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2011-11-24 13:55 -0800
      Re: Nested window question Rik Griffin <nospam@denbridgemarine.com> - 2011-11-25 09:50 +0000

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