On May 12, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Daniel Phillips wrote:
Hello,
I'm adding the finishing touches to my widget to try and make it
presentable and I was wondering what your opinions on scrollbars in
widgets were.
It's pretty much a necessity for my widget to have a scrolling
display to make it useful. At present, scrollbars are provided by
using the CSS overflow:auto parameter for my main div element.
This gives me standard Aqua scrollbars and the ability to scroll
using the scrollwheel. However, I see that Apple's guidelines
recommend not using Aqua controls on the front of the widget,
though I have seen widgets on Apple's download page which feature
Aqua controls on their front page.
My other option is to use the scrollbar javascript as provided in
the examples that came with the developer tools but this will lose
the ability to scroll with the wheel. Does anyone have any
opinions on the best way to implement scrolling in a widget?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel.
Daniel--
The new Scroller sample code makes adding a DHTML scroller to a
widget very easy (it's more complete than the one installed on
disk). You can find it at:
Using custom scroll bars and scrollers allow you to integrate their
design into your widget better. This is highly recommended. Aqua
controls tend to look odd on the front of a widget.
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