Re: Controlling a scrolled area....

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I was rifling through gtkscrolledwindow.c, and I found the scrolled
> child function (which is NOT explained in the documentation).  It
> appears that you can call 'gtk_scrolled_window_scroll_child', pass it
> the wiget you want to scroll, the scroll type, and a boolean value for
> "horizontal".
>
> The way it appears to work is as follows:
>
> If you pass:
>         GTK_SCROLL_STEP_UP, GTK_SCROLL_STEP_DOWN, GTK_SCROLL_STEP_LEFT,
>         GTK_SCROLL_STEP_RIGHT, GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_UP, GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_DOWN,
>         GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_LEFT, GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_RIGHT
>
> Then:
>         Horizontal is NOT needed (=NULL ?).  The function will decide if
> the movement is horiz. or vert.
>
> If you pass:
>         GTK_SCROLL_STEP_FORWARD, GTK_SCROLL_STEP_BACKWARD,
>         GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_FORWARD, GTK_SCROLL_PAGE_BACKWARD,
>         GTK_SCROLL_START, GTK_SCROLL_END
>
> Then:
>         You MUST pass horizontal = TRUE/FALSE, to tell the scroll
> function if you're horiz. or vert.
>
> Good Luck all,
> Tom Cameron
>
> P.S. How do we go about adding this information to the API Reference?

I think tha API reference is auto-generated from the source
... or at least a large part of it.