MFC - Scrollbars

A scrollbar is a graphical control element with which continuous text, pictures or anything else can be scrolled in two directions along a control by clicking an arrow. This control can assume one of two directions — horizontal or vertical. It is represented by CScrollBar class.

Here is the list of methods in CScrollBar class −

Sr.No.	Name & Description
1	Create Enables or disables one or both arrows of a scroll bar.
2	EnableScrollBar Enables or disables one or both arrows of a scroll bar.
3	GetScrollBarInfo Retrieves information about the scroll bar using a SCROLLBARINFO structure.
4	GetScrollInfo Retrieves information about the scroll bar.
5	GetScrollLimit Retrieves the limit of the scroll bar.
6	GetScrollPos Retrieves the current position of a scroll box.
7	GetScrollRange Retrieves the current minimum and maximum scroll-bar positions for the given scroll bar.
8	SetScrollInfo Sets information about the scroll bar.
9	SetScrollPos Sets the current position of a scroll box.
10	SetScrollRange Sets minimum and maximum position values for the given scroll bar.
11	ShowScrollBar Shows or hides a scroll bar.

Let us look into a simple example of Scrollbar.

Step 1 − To add either horizontal or vertical scrollbar, you need to set the following highlighted properties of the dialog box to True.

Step 2 − When you run the above application, you will see that both horizontal and vertical scrollbars have been added.

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