The scrollbar doesn't work in the "homescreen.cpp" demo

[yurivict]

The "paragraph" tab has 2 panes, and the left pane has a scrollbar.

Problem:
It is not clear how can one ever use this scrollbar.
Pressing the "Down" button doesn't move focus from the "paragraph" tab header down to the left pane.
The scrollbar can't be dragged down with the mouse.
Mouse wheel events don't scroll the left pane.

rev. a715a76
konsole-a715a76
FreeBSD 14.0

[ArthurSonzogni]

Hello!

Yes, this wasn't meant to be scrollable.
We probably want to improve it to make it clearer.

[yurivict]

Hi!

But if the vertical bar is resizable using the mouse, then it's natural to expect that the nearby scrollbar is also draggable using the mouse. Users usually drag scrollbars.

No?

[cculianu]

Hi there Arthur.. I really like your library and just discovered it recently and am using it now to write some small test programs to play with it. I love the aesthetics of the programming style you chose and I also like some of the implementation details you went with. Truly a great deal of thought and labor and expertise went into the design of this most excellent and one-of-a-kind library. C++ as a language has increased in its utility as a result of this one very well designed lib!

In my early playing with the lib, I also was surprised that the scroll bar has no (easy) way for user-controlled scrolling. I am supposing the way that this component was designed basically just leaves room for it to be programmer-updated to "focus" text/elements down lower or higher and the scroll-bar the just scrolls towards things in focus. So it's more of a programmer-oriented rather than user-oriented component.

Still though, one is left feeling that some use-cases perhaps are being neglected. Would it be possible to design-in some sort of buiilt-in scrolling ability into the scroll control? So that it can be user-scrollable? One can imagine certain UIs that would have such a component on screen.. say for logs files or a text viewing pane.. where really it's up to the user to scroll.. and the programmer would rather it be a passive control that "just works"... sort of the way checkboxes and radio buttons and other controls are already -- they fully encapsulate their functionality and the programmer doesn't need to update their state (unless he wants to), to achieve the fully realized behavior of the control in question.

So.... with all that being said: Is there any natural or "easy" way you can update the implementation of the scrollbar or add a similar component that can just be easily and automatically user scrolled?

I went through the other issues and it seems other people have wanted this capability and the various work-arounds they came up with seem to (mostly) work but the complexity of their workarounds leaves me thinking ... it does look like a missing feature ..

EDIT: #176 <--- Oh I missed this! You have this as a desired enhancement. Great! (I had been looking ad closed issues.. didn't see this is one of the open issues! Greeat!)