Re: scrollbars

[Erich Neuwirth <erich neuwirth univie ac at>]

that was me ;-)

i would be willing to be walked through,
but i cannot start anything within the next 4 weeks.

if you want to have an example of what this could be used for,
go to
http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Projects/demography/

i really would love to have that in gnumeric



Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:25:36PM +0100, Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> > i am totally new to gnumeric,
> > but i am a relativly experienced excel user.
> >
> > the one thing i am missing int the "widget" toolbar
> > is a scrollbar which i can drop on a worksheet and
> > connect to a slider.
> >
> > i the archive, i found a lot of references to scrollbars,
> > but cannot understand yet how the sliders (i.e. scrollbars)
> > are created.
> >
> > is there some documentations how a create a scrollbar
> > controlling the value of a cell and triggerinmg a recalc of the sheet
> > as soon as the slider is moved?
>
> Wow this is old.  Strangely it just popped arrived today.  I suppose
> @home is cleaning things out before dying.
>
> The references you see to scrollbars are for the _sheet_ scrollbars.
> They are the ones that move the cell viewport around.  There is no
> way to embed an actual scrobar in the sheet the way you can embed a
> checkbox.  However, this is actually quite doable as a project.  The
> architecture for it is in place.  We could probably even import them
> from XL without too much hassle.  If anyone is interested in this,
> please contact the list and I'll walk you through which bits of the
> checkbox code to clone.
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