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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- Apple IIGS
- #47: What SetDataSize Does
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- Written by: Keith Rollin November 1988
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- This Technical Note clears up any ambiguity in the description of the
- SetDataSize call.
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- The Apple IIGS supports windows that contain scroll bars in their frames.
- These scroll bars are handled by TaskMaster and differ from Macintosh scroll
- bars in that the size of the "thumb" or "elevator" is used to indicate the
- size of the visible area of the document in relation to the total size of the
- document (the "data size"). Initially, the visible size and the data size are
- defined by the parameter list passed to NewWindow; however, either of these
- can be changed by SizeWindow and SetDataSize, respectively.
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- SetDataSize is used to not only change the range of scrolling allowed, but
- also to redraw the size of the thumb to reflect the fact that the data size
- has changed with respect to the visible area. However, page 25-97 of the
- Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference contains the following description of
- SetDataSize:
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- "Sets the height and width of the data area of a specified window.
- Setting these values will not change the scroll bars or generate
- update events."
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- When the manual states that SetDataSize "will not change the scroll bars," it
- is referring to the location, or value, of the thumb. Assume a situation
- where you have a word processor that scrolls the page using TaskMaster scroll
- bars. If you delete a range of text, you would also shorten the entire size
- of the document. Calling SetDataSize to reflect that would indeed change the
- size of the thumb, but it would not change its location. If you were already
- scrolled to the bottom of the document when you called SetDataSize, the thumb
- would become larger (to reflect the fact the the total data size became
- smaller with respect to the visible data size) and overwrite the down arrow of
- the scroll bar. To prevent this situation from occurring, you should also
- change the origin of the window with SetContentOrigin before calling
- SetDataSize.
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- Further Reference
- o Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference, Volume 2
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