The Scrollbar Widget

Create a scrollbar with the Scrollbar method: 

$parentwidget->Scrollbar (options)

The standard configuration options that apply to Scrollbar are: -ac-tivebackground, -background, -bg, -borderwidth, -bd, -cursor, -highlightback-ground, -highlightcolor, -highlightthickness, -relief, -takefocus, and -width.

Other options are:

  • -activerelief => type
  • Changes how active elements (arrow1, arrow2, and slider) in the scrollbar are drawn. Values for type are flat, groove, raised, ridge, and sunken. The default is raised.
  • -command => callback
  • Pointer to a function that will be called when the scrollbar is clicked on.
  • -elementborderwidth => amount
  • The width of the borders of the arrow1, arrow2, and slider elements.
  • -jump => boolean
  • Determines whether the scrollbar will jump scroll. Default is (jump scroll disabled).
  • -orient => orientation
  • Determines the orientation of the scrollbar. Possible orientations are horizontal and vertical (default).
  • -repeatdelay => milliseconds
  • Determines the number of milliseconds to hold down an arrow before it will auto-repeat. Default is .
  • -repeatinterval => milliseconds
  • Determines the number of milliseconds between auto-repeats once it is started. Default is .
  • -troughcolor => color
  • Changes the color of the trough.

Scrollbar Methods

In addition to configure and cget, the following methods are supported by the Scrollbar widget:

  • set
  • Changes the viewable portion of the data, with the two arguments being numbers between 0 and 1 representing the portions of the data that will be visible. 
    $scrollbar->set(0.2,0.6);
  • get
  • Returns the latest arguments to set.
  • activate
  • With no arguments, returns the name of the current active element. With an argument of arrow1, arrow2, or slider, changes the color of the specified element to the active foreground color and relief type.
  • delta
  • Given a number of pixels in the first argument, returns the fractional change needed to move the slider that amount.
  • fraction
  • Given an x,y coordinate as the first and second arguments, returns a number between 0 and 1 representing the fraction of the scrollbar that the coordinate would fall under.
  • identify
  • Given an x,y coordinate as the first and second arguments, returns the name of the element at those coordinates.