Re: Is a CornerWidget for ScrollBars easily made possible?

On Friday, March 14, 2014 at 11:47:56 PM UTC-5, Robin Dunn wrote:
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>
> It might be possible with some widgets, but probably not all.  The issue 
> is that for native widgets that have scrollbars wx has no way to control 
> or even get access to those scrollbars.  Also that area would be 
> considered outside of the window's client area, and there is much in wx 
> that assumes that everything will be inside the client area. 
>
> There are no plans that I know of to expose functionality like this. 
>
>
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> Robin Dunn 
> Software Craftsman 
> http://wxPython.org


 Well... I finally got fed up and started my attempt to hack one of these 
up. In the fight to be totally custom it seems I have bitten off two 
different things to tackle at the same time lol.
Obviously the fist would be creating a corner widget. wx.GridBagSizer(1, 
1). Simple enough. corner widget is in corner and horizontal and vertical 
scroll bars are castle side of corner. The actual widget that normally has 
scrollbars would be obviously in the last open spot.
2nd Issue: The scrollbars themselves... It seems there is not a lot of 
access to this stuff depending on what widget it is, but I managed to use 
other infos from the widget to help determine how the scrollbars would 
work/should be programmed.
2 1/2 Issue... Since I have come all this way and pained my brain to do 
this, Obviously I need to theme the scrollbars too. This is an artists 
problem in itself to do, but Andrea's DrawVistaRectangle method helped out 
starting some MSW themed function. I'm using Win7 if you look at the 
attached pic, so obviously trying to recreate default look would be a first 
attempt.

I guess the next thing after hacking the classes all to oblivion would be 
to create a CustomStatusBar widget in pure python. Has anyone written one? 
I recall Andrea has some tutorials on checkbox and whatnot, but I'd lay a 
guess a scrollbar is a bit more work...

 Anywho. small update on my progress on this issue. Vertical scrollbar for 
stc is working as expected atm. next to tackle would be the horizontal, 
which has me scratching my head atm... See attached pic

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