Surpressing Horiz Scroll Bar

[PB&J Lover]

Is there a way to supress the horizontal scroll bars for a ListIconGadget?
When my list gets too long they both appear when only one is needed.

Thanks. Viva La PB!

[Sub-Routine]

I KNOW! I KNOW!
I went through this not long ago.

What happens is when the vertical scroll is added is uses some pixels (about 12) of your ListIconGadget. So if your columns already fill the LIG you need a horizontal scroll.

If you make the ListIconGadget a bit wider (to allow for the vertical scrollbar) you won't get the horizontal scroll bar.

Rand

[johnnyutah]

This is the code I use:

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If CountGadgetItems(#ListIconGadget) > 17
; Resize columns to make them smaller so more space for vertical scrollbar.
  SendMessage_(GadgetID(#ListIconGadget), #LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 0, 90)
  SendMessage_(GadgetID(#ListIconGadget), #LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 1, 90)
Else
; Column size if scrollbar is not displaying
  SendMessage_(GadgetID(#ListIconGadget), #LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 0, 98)
  SendMessage_(GadgetID(#ListIconGadget), #LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, 1, 98)
EndIf

You need to work out how many items the listicongadget can display before it shows the vertical scrollbar. In the example above its 17.

[akj]

Here is my preferred method for avoiding a horizontal scroll bar.

Immediately after adding or deleting a row (and possibly also immediately creating the gadget) include the line:

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SendMessage_(GadgetID(#ListIconGadget), #LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, last_column_number, #LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER)

This gets Windows to automatically adjust the width of the last column so that the columns fit within the gadget.