Need help for scollbar

[AL]

Currently, everytime i write data to a table, the scrollbar automatically moves to the top. Is there a way to stop the scrollbar from moving? As in totally stop at that particular line i am looking at, while data is still being appended at the bottom? In short, is there a function to disable the automatic scrolling.

Regards
AL

[Wendy L]

Hello AL,

Instead of disabling the scrollbar, you can write your text to the table, then set the visible line to the last line of the table.

For example:

int totalRows;
GetNumTableRows (panelHandle, PANEL_TABLE, &totalRows);
SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, PANEL_TABLE, ATTR_FIRST_VISIBLE_ROW, totalRows);


Hope that helps.

[MJF]

The same tactic works for list boxes. I often use them as test log displays and want to keep the last line visible to the user during the test.

[AL]

Hi Wendy,

err... that is not exactly what i want. For example i have a table of about 15 lines and i happen to be looking at line no. 10. An event happen in my program thus inserting another line at the bottom, but i still want to look at line no. 10 and not at the end or at the top. What happens is that in my program the table is holding a list of variables and the values are changing, thus i want to allow user to monitor which ever variable he/she is looking at. I'll try and see if there is any work around it....

Cheers
AL