Hi Ben, It might be worth it to read through this recent email: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/145717
See, in particular, JMarc's comment, containing the following "I suuspect that a lot of work will be needed in our WorkArea widget to have it aware that it contains other Qt widgets (the scrollbars)" Best, Scott On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Benjamin Le Cam <b.le...@me.com> wrote: > Hi! > > The Horizontal Scroll Bar issue interests me. It looks like to be a major > issue for many people so that would a great thing done. > I already have a good background with Qt and so I'm wondering what there is > no use of QScrollArea in order to have a horizontal scroll bar needed? > > I already had to deal with this kind of issue and this is mostly how I solved > it. > I also read in the mailing list that a person mentionned that it would > require to use QPainter to draw a custom scrollbar. In my opinion this is not > needed as Qt provides already some good widgets to handle this. > > So if you could tell me if I'm right/wrong and why this would take 12 weeks? > I mean, is there any specific thing I should know about it? I have not looked > at the code yet as I'm really busy with school this week but I'll take a look > this week-end. So if someone could give more details that would be great. > > Thanks! > Ben.
