With this template you can add a new Horizontal Scrollbar component to your project. Horizontal Scrollbar is a widget intended to show the current position within a large document (e.g. within a long list with thousand of items). In its original version, the Scrollbar component template is not intended to react to user inputs. However, if such behavior is expected, you can enhance the component accordingly.

Components created with this template are intended to be adapted to your particular design expectations. After adding the new Horizontal Scrollbar you should edit the component, change its appearance and if desired also its behavior. Once you have adapted the component, you can embed instances of this Horizontal Scrollbar wherever you need in your GUI project. Because it serves as template, it is intentionally kept very simple. Nevertheless, Horizontal Scrollbars created by the template are working widgets. If desired, they can already be used as they are. The following figure demonstrates the default appearance of the Horizontal Scrollbar created by using the here described component template:

The approach with component templates has two functions. Primarily the templates should simplify the development of new components. Instead of creating the Horizontal Scrollbar from scratch you can use the available template. The second function is more educative. The template implements fully working Horizontal Scrollbar component you can investigate and learn about the corresponding programming aspects. The template is well documented. It contains annotations and inline comments with instructions helping you to understand how the component works and how it can be adapted to your particular needs.

This chapter provides an overview how the Horizontal Scrollbar component template is used within your own application and how you adapt this component according to your particular needs. You will find here also further details concerning the internal implementation of the Horizontal Scrollbar component.

Besides the here described Horizontal Scrollbar component template, Embedded Wizard provides also a ready to use Horizontal Scrollbar widget. It is finished implemented and ready to be used as it is. Within a certain limits, the appearance and partially also the behavior of the Horizontal Scrollbar widget can be configured. The advantage of the approach is, that to customize it you don't need to write a single line of code. The flexibility of the provided widget, however, is limited by its implementation.

With the component template you are not limited. But you have to take care of the adaptation of the so created component. You have to write code. More deep understanding is required. Summarized, the ready to use widgets follow a convenient, simple but also limited approach where you don't need to write a single line of code. With the here described component templates you have to write code by which you are flexible to create very individual and sophisticated widgets. Which of the both approaches applies to you does depend on your application case. By understanding the differences in the both concepts you can select the optimal one.

To create a new Horizontal Scrollbar component from a template you simply Drag & Drop it between the Templates window and the Composer with an opened unit. This is important in that by using the component templates you add in fact a new class to your project. Classes, in turn, can exist within units only. The following are the typical steps to create a new Horizontal Scrollbar component from a template:

The new created Horizontal Scrollbar component appears accompanied by annotation providing helpful tips how to proceed. If undesired, you can select and delete the annotation.

Once you have created the Horizontal Scrollbar component, you can use it to assemble more complex components. Technically seen, you embed an instance of the Horizontal Scrollbar class in-place within some superior GUI component. At the runtime, the superior GUI component takes care of the correct initialization and the displaying of all embedded components, so they appear similarly as you have composed them at the design time.

The following are the typical steps to create a new instance of an already existing Horizontal Scrollbar component:

As long as the Horizontal Scrollbar is selected you can inspect and modify its properties conveniently in the Inspector window as demonstrated with the property Bounds in the screenshot below. This is in so far worth mentioning as diverse features of the Horizontal Scrollbar are controlled by the corresponding properties. If you are not familiar with the concept of a property and the usage of Inspector window, please read first the preceding chapter Compositing component appearance.

The Horizontal Scrollbar component descends from the Mosaic class Core::Group. Consequently, most of the properties listed in the above screenshot are inherited from this base class. Particular to the Horizontal Scrollbar are only few following properties:

Property	Description
ContentArea	The property ContentArea determines the size of the entire content to scroll. This usually corresponds to the size of the document (image, text, etc.) you want to present to the user. Generally the value ContentArea >= ViewArea.
Position	The property Position determines the current scroll position within the entire content. Generally the value lies in the range 0 .. ( ContentArea - ViewArea ).
ViewArea	The property ViewArea determines the size of the visible portion of the entire content. This usually corresponds to the size of the viewport where the user can see the document (the image, text, etc.). Generally the value ViewArea <= ContentArea.

Once added to the component, you can freely move the Horizontal Scrollbar instance, or you simply grab one of its corners and resize it in this way. You can control the position and the size of the component also by directly modifying its property Bounds. If you want the Horizontal Scrollbar to appear behind other views you can reorder it explicitly.