Buttons scrolling without scrollbar Topic is solved

[Nelson Joseph]

Hi All,

Is it possible to scroll a set of buttons inside the pannel without using scroll bar(similar to jQuery sliding effect)
Instead of scroll bar I will have left and right navigation buttons.

Thanks in advance

[doublemax]

I don't know exactly what you mean, but the answer is probably no. If you want to animate the position of any control, you need to do it yourself.

[Mikey Boy]

If the buttons are drawn inside their own wxPanel, then it should be possible to scroll the contents of the panel left and right using the wxWindow::ScrollWindow method. You can call this method on receiving a button-press event from your navigation buttons.

Or am I missing something?

[Nelson Joseph]

@doublemax

Thanks for your reply.
Please find attached picture. Is there any built-in class?
I tried with wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT But I need the scrolling effect. Totally I have 10 buttons.

Thanks

[Mikey Boy]

Maybe I'm thinking about this too simplistically, but as far as I can see, it should be possible to do this as follows:

1) create a wxPanel which contains just the buttons 1 - 10 - we'll call this myButtonPanel
2) create a wxBoxSizer with a horizontal orientation - we'll call this myButtonSizer,
3) set myButtonSizer to be the top-level sizer for myButtonWindow

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myButtonWindow->SetSizer(myButtonSizer);

4) add the buttons to the sizer

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myButtonSizer->Add(buttonOne);
myButtonSizer->Add(buttonTwo);
// etc

3) call FitInside to ensure that the virtual window for myButtonPanel expands to be big enough to hold all the buttons:

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myButtonSizer->FitInside(myButtonWindow);

4) Create an event handler method in an appropriate class to handle the button-click events from your navigation buttons. In that event handler, call:

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myButtonWindow->ScrollWindow(20, 0);

Replace "20" with the number of pixels you want to scroll the buttons by.

I've been doing something similar myself (not using buttons to scroll controls, but using scrollbars from a different window) and it works for me.
Hope this helps!

[Nelson Joseph]

@Mikey:

Thank you Mikey. I have applied your suggestion. but still I am trying to get the effect something like wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
Any suggestions?

[Mikey Boy]

@Mikey:

Thank you Mikey. I have applied your suggestion. but still I am trying to get the effect something like wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
Any suggestions?

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the wxWindow effects, so I can't help you - sorry!

[Nelson Joseph]

@Mikey:

Thank you Mikey. I have applied your suggestion. but still I am trying to get the effect something like wxSHOW_EFFECT_SLIDE_TO_RIGHT
Any suggestions?

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the wxWindow effects, so I can't help you - sorry!

@Mikey:

Thank you for your help. Is there any way to move the buttons slowly (cool effects)
Thanks.

[Mikey Boy]

Thank you for your help. Is there any way to move the buttons slowly (cool effects)
Thanks.

Ah, so you want it to slowly slide to its new scroll position, rather than jumping instantly?

The only way I can think of is a real brute force method, like looping 20 (say) times, and each time scrolling by 1 pixel, possibly adding some sort of delay after each scroll to achieve the desired speed. I don't know if there's any more sophisticated built-in way of doing it.

[Nelson Joseph]

like looping 20 (say) times, and each time scrolling by 1 pixel, possibly adding some sort of delay after each scroll to achieve the desired speed.

Thanks MiKey. Problem solved.

[Mikey Boy]

like looping 20 (say) times, and each time scrolling by 1 pixel, possibly adding some sort of delay after each scroll to achieve the desired speed.

Thanks MiKey. Problem solved.

Glad I could help