How do I make a large scrolling window?

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks to Bj?rnke von Gierke, Jim Lyons, Ken Norris and Steve Messimer for 
their informative replies.

Because of you guys, I think I understand the principle now - I also think 
it's a dreadful kludge. In effect you have to trick the IDE into helping 
you, and clearly there are some difficulties in using a purely visual way 
of placing objects, which is so easy for areas up to window-size. As a 
future improvement, one can imagine a dialog box which asks how big you'd 
like your scrolled area to be, and which then places the scrollbar(s) in 
preparation for the developer filling the whole area by 'normal' means. But 
at least it can be done. I certainly vote for some additional documentation 
here, since the existing docs describe only the situation where a scrollbar 
is redundant (the scrolled group being exactly the same size as the window 
that displays it). I am not sure if all this should go in Bugzilla 
(proposed improvements section).

Ken N, I would certainly appreciate a look at your demo: please do send it 
to me off list.

Thanks again

Graham

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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France