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I am trying to explain how to scroll a list, and I realize that I don't know how and don't even know if it can be done. Is it possible to scroll a list, or is a list designed to hold a small and fixed number of items? I do know how to scroll a text-area, but a list doesn't seem to contain the same kind of data as a text-area. A text-area is a big string of text. A list is a block of items.
    
Thank you.
    
R E B O L [
     Title: 'VID test harness'
]
    
view layout [
     label 'No default list size'
     across
     DEMO-LIST: list 200x200 [
             across
             text 100 [print ['clicked ' value]]
             text 100 [print ['clicked ' value]]
         ]
         data [
             ['Item 01-01' 'Item 02-01']
             ['Item 01-02' 'Item 02-02']
             ['Item 01-03' 'Item 02-03']
             ['Item 01-04' 'Item 02-04']
             ['Item 01-05' 'Item 02-05']
             ['Item 01-06' 'Item 02-06']
             ['Item 01-07' 'Item 02-07']
             ['Item 01-08' 'Item 02-08']
             ['Item 01-09' 'Item 02-09']
             ['Item 01-10' 'Item 02-10']
             ['Item 01-11' 'Item 02-11']
             ['Item 01-12' 'Item 02-12']
             ['Item 01-13' 'Item 02-13']
             ['Item 01-14' 'Item 02-14']
             ['Item 01-15' 'Item 02-15']
             ['Item 01-16' 'Item 02-16']
             ['Item 01-17' 'Item 02-17']
             ['Item 01-18' 'Item 02-18']
             ['Item 01-19' 'Item 02-19']
             ['Item 01-20' 'Item 02-20']
         ]
     SCROLL-BAR: scroller 20x200 [
     ; ?????
     ]
]


posted by:   Steven White     24-Sep-2015/16:21-7:00



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posted by:   Gorf     24-Sep-2015/19:14:28-7:00



These may be helpful too:
    
http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html#section-8.1
    
http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html#section-17.21
    
http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html#section-21.3

posted by:   Nick     24-Sep-2015/20:41:20-7:00



Look for the examples in 17.21 which start with this:
    
x: copy [] for i 1 397 1 [append x i]
    
slider-pos: 0
view layout [
     across
     the-list: list 240x400 [text 200] supply [
         count: count + slider-pos
         face/text: pick x count
     ]
     slider 16x400 [
         slider-pos: (length? x) * value
         show the-list
     ]
]
    
You could do your example above like this:
    
R E B O L [
     Title: "VID test harness"
]
data: [
     ["Item 01-01" "Item 02-01"]
     ["Item 01-02" "Item 02-02"]
     ["Item 01-03" "Item 02-03"]
     ["Item 01-04" "Item 02-04"]
     ["Item 01-05" "Item 02-05"]
     ["Item 01-06" "Item 02-06"]
     ["Item 01-07" "Item 02-07"]
     ["Item 01-08" "Item 02-08"]
     ["Item 01-09" "Item 02-09"]
     ["Item 01-10" "Item 02-10"]
     ["Item 01-11" "Item 02-11"]
     ["Item 01-12" "Item 02-12"]
     ["Item 01-13" "Item 02-13"]
     ["Item 01-14" "Item 02-14"]
     ["Item 01-15" "Item 02-15"]
     ["Item 01-16" "Item 02-16"]
     ["Item 01-17" "Item 02-17"]
     ["Item 01-18" "Item 02-18"]
     ["Item 01-19" "Item 02-19"]
     ["Item 01-20" "Item 02-20"]
]
slider-pos: 0    
view layout [
     label "No default list size"
     across
     DEMO-LIST: list 200x200 [
         across
         text 100 [print ["clicked " value]]
         text 100 [print ["clicked " value]]
     ] supply [
         count: count + slider-pos
         if none? y: pick data count [face/text: none exit]
         face/text: pick y index
     ]
     slider 16x200 [
         slider-pos: (length? data) * value
         show DEMO-LIST
     ]
]

posted by:   Nick     24-Sep-2015/21:10:51-7:00



You could also use my little shortcut display in 8.1 like this:
    
R E B O L []
    
headers: ["Column1" "Column2"]
    
x: data: [
     ["Item 01-01" "Item 02-01"]
     ["Item 01-02" "Item 02-02"]
     ["Item 01-03" "Item 02-03"]
     ["Item 01-04" "Item 02-04"]
     ["Item 01-05" "Item 02-05"]
     ["Item 01-06" "Item 02-06"]
     ["Item 01-07" "Item 02-07"]
     ["Item 01-08" "Item 02-08"]
     ["Item 01-09" "Item 02-09"]
     ["Item 01-10" "Item 02-10"]
     ["Item 01-11" "Item 02-11"]
     ["Item 01-12" "Item 02-12"]
     ["Item 01-13" "Item 02-13"]
     ["Item 01-14" "Item 02-14"]
     ["Item 01-15" "Item 02-15"]
     ["Item 01-16" "Item 02-16"]
     ["Item 01-17" "Item 02-17"]
     ["Item 01-18" "Item 02-18"]
     ["Item 01-19" "Item 02-19"]
     ["Item 01-20" "Item 02-20"]
]
    
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view center-face gui: layout gui-block

posted by:   Nick     24-Sep-2015/21:18:42-7:00



Maybe that last example is best given like this:
    
R E B O L [title: "Grid"]
headers: ["Column1" "Column2"]    
x: data: [
     ["Item 01-01" "Item 02-01"]
     ["Item 01-02" "Item 02-02"]
     ["Item 01-03" "Item 02-03"]
     ["Item 01-04" "Item 02-04"]
     ["Item 01-05" "Item 02-05"]
     ["Item 01-06" "Item 02-06"]
     ["Item 01-07" "Item 02-07"]
     ["Item 01-08" "Item 02-08"]
     ["Item 01-09" "Item 02-09"]
     ["Item 01-10" "Item 02-10"]
     ["Item 01-11" "Item 02-11"]
     ["Item 01-12" "Item 02-12"]
     ["Item 01-13" "Item 02-13"]
     ["Item 01-14" "Item 02-14"]
     ["Item 01-15" "Item 02-15"]
     ["Item 01-16" "Item 02-16"]
     ["Item 01-17" "Item 02-17"]
     ["Item 01-18" "Item 02-18"]
     ["Item 01-19" "Item 02-19"]
     ["Item 01-20" "Item 02-20"]
]
do http://re-bol.com/gridlib.r

posted by:   Nick     30-Sep-2015/9:42:31-7:00