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nawmtaronyu
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Making a scroll bar?

Post by nawmtaronyu »

I want to make a icon launcher that utilizes a scroll bar on the side to scroll through more hidden icons, I have seen a bitmap scroll volume thing before I think I should be able to adapt that bitmap system to do the scroll icon launcher, but I'm not sure where to start any help?
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thatsIch
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Re: Making a scroll bar?

Post by thatsIch »

there is no native way to implement a scrollbar in rainmeter in the moment, because you cannot really catch the mouse-movement. There are some hacks where ou can emulate it with resizing boxes via that you give all segments of the scrollbar the mouseoveraction.

Maybe someone knows a better solution for this
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Kaelri
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Re: Making a scroll bar?

Post by Kaelri »

Real "scrolling" is not easy to implement in Rainmeter. There's nothing built-in to support it, which means if you want something to scroll, you need to set up all the movements, coordinates and mathematics yourself.

If you want to have several "pages" of icons, that would be much easier. There are a few methods for setting up "paged" elements in Rainmeter here.