edit_box does not support scrollbar related methods about shoes3 HOT 7 OPEN

I can't find anywhere in the manual that suggests these work. I'm assuming this an enhancement request.

By definition there is nothing to scroll in an edit_line.

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By definition there is nothing to scroll in an edit_line.

Agreed on edit_line. However, it is a normal behaviour (any GUI) to provide support for a scrollbar on an edit_box. The text can easily overflow and it would be a struggle to edit in such edit box without a scrollbar.

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Shoes.app do
  @a = edit_box :height => 100
  str = ""
  10.times {|i| str << "Line #{i}\n"}
  @a.text = str
  button "Display" do
   para @a.text
  end
end

A scroll bar appears. You can edit the text.

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True. Let's go back on the original topic for a second: Shoes edit_box does not respond to scroll_top, scroll_max, scroll_height, scroll and gutter. There is no way to know anything about that said scrollbar.

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I'd like an option to autoscroll (if needed) but that's different. Serious question. What would you do if you knew the edit_box has or doesn't have a scroll bar? What ever that reason is - can you detect that condition in the block attached to the edit_box?

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Something I've learned with the 3.2.24 console is that edit box could behave much more like a multi-line text editor window (both gtk and osx). It's a lot code to implement and we'd have to add some methods/styles/procs to Shoes - perhaps it would be better to just create a new control for Shoes so don't have compatibility issues to deal with.

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Partially addressed in #146. Good enough?

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