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Re: Arrows in Win11 scrollbar disappeared [message #61392 is a reply to message #61358]

Wed, 08 January 2025 08:47

mirek
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Tom1 wrote on Mon, 30 December 2024 10:47

Hi,

I found that there's been a change a couple of weeks ago:

"Core: IsWin11, CtrlLib: No arrows in Win11 scrollbar"

Why no arrows? At least Windows Explorer and Notepad have arrows on scrollbars in Win11, although they only appear when cursor is at least hovering on top of the scrollbar.

BTW: I would have commented on GitHub on the commit, but for some reason the Comments section seems to be frozen/unaccessible there at the moment.

Best regards,

Tom

Well, they did not work well in U++, that weird logic of showing them only sometimes...

MacOS and most Linux themes dropped arrows long time ago for a good reason. I guess today when nobody takes to much care about conforming to host look&feel too much anymory, I thought I will just drop them in Win11 for good. I see it as quite odd design with those reserved places for arrow at the top and botton....

When is the last time you clicked one of those arrows? Me maybe 25 years ago before scroll wheels...

BTW, there are more small changes coming to Win11 look and feel, but mostly to make it more conforming. Interesting problem is proper support of dark mode (without "color flipping") - but M$ made that one borderline impossible... The best method is here AFAIK:

https://github.com/komiyamma/win32-darkmode/blob/master/win3 2-darkmode/DarkMode.h

and that involves reading functions from .dll with ordinal numbers. Not sure I want to go there...

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