Re: Display subfile page number

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two issues with scroll bars sometimes are troublesome.

One of course is the three columns needed on the right side to display 
the subfile.  The good news is that showing the scrollbar is a one-word 
change in the DSPF (unless the SFLSIZE keyword is some arbitrarily 
too-high value).

The other issue programmers sometimes get tripped up on is that the 
SFLSIZE needs to be correct.  (Just making the subfile size some 
arbitrarily too-high number compiles and works, but if you use the 
actual subfile size then the program can do the math correctly and make 
the slider on the scrollbar the right proportion compared to the subfile 
size, and also place the slider correctly on the scrollbar so the user 
gets two visual signals about the relative size of the subfile, and 
where s/he is in the subfile.


On 3/21/2011 3:32 PM, Stuart Rowe wrote:
> If you're looking for some sort of "where am I in the subfile" indication
> (and absolute page number is just an idea toward that end), I have heard
> suggested hear in other posts that scroll bars help the user visualize sort
> of where they are in the scrolling.  If you can afford the horizontal space,
> I found it useful once.
>
> Stu
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 15:22, Timothy Adair<tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > That's the answer I suspected (although not the one I was hoping for).
> >
> > Thank you for responding.  I appreciate the willingness of members of this
> > group to help out a fellow "codeslinger".
> >
> > And I don't know if I've ever said it before, but thank you David, for all
> > you do.
> >
> >
> > ~TA~
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