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clumpter
clumpter

Reputation: 1958

Detect non-standard scrollbars

Is there a way to detect with WinAPI if window has non-standard scrollbars (for example, window can draw scrollbars itself instead of using standard ones)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 231

Answers (2)

Vladimir
Vladimir

Reputation: 1797

I'm not quite sure if this will work, but it is just an idea. Scroll bars belong to the window which has to be created with this style enabled. So, you can check if your window contains WS_VSCROLL style and if so - this is standard scrollbar. In counterpart it is drawn by somebody else.

You can check it on this way:

// Assume that a window handle hWnd is known
int style = GetWindowLong(hWnd, GWL_STYLE);
BOOL bStandard = ((style & WS_VSCROLL) != 0);

Upvotes: 2

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613481

It's kind of hard to see how you could do this. A control could just paint scroll bars in its own canvas, do its own hit testing and how would you possibly know. You could do all this without creating separate HWNDs for the scroll bars.

What would be more interesting would be if you could say why you would wish to know this.

Upvotes: 1

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