Re: How wide are scrollbars?

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From: Paul Bonneau
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 22:04

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In article <1991Apr15.185247.17784@SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
>When I size my child window (using MoveWindow) I want to allow for
>the client area and for a scroll bar (if needed). Unfortunately I
>don't see anything that gives the width of a scroll bar. Are they
>always the same size? Right now I'm using the value 20 which works
>on my display but I don't know if the size would vary on say an EGA
>display.
>
You can use AdjustWindowRect().  Give it the size of the
client area, and use the appropriate scroll flags (WS_HSCROLL
or WS_VSCROLL).  It will come back with the total size of the
window to accomodate both.

cheers - Paul Bonneau.

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Subject: Re: How wide are scrollbars?
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