MFC - Scrollbars

Quiz

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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