A container view which allows the user to scroll across contents when they exceed the view's bounds.
The view places the children onto a canvas, which may then be scrolled. The child views' position is always relative to the canvas, and thus not affected by scrolling.
The size of the canvas is always equal to the collective bounds of the children, and automatically adjusts when they are added, moved, resized and removed. If you wish to set it to a particular size, you could do so by first placing e.g. a CompositeView (or another container) of desired size, and then placing all the other views into that container.
Exceptionally though, you can replace the canvas with any other view (e.g. simply with View), which allows you to install a layout on it. In that case, the canvas will fill the whole visible area of the ScrollView, if the layout contents allow so, or a larger area, if the layout contents demand so. Effectively, the contents will resize together with the ScrollView, unless their size constraints prevent that, and if -autohidesScrollers is true, a scrollbar will only be shown if the contents can not be resized small enough in the scrollbar's direction. See -canvas for further explanation.
Returns the current canvas that carries the child views, or replaces it with another.
By default, the canvas is a subclass of QObject, and hence does not allow the type of manipulations that views do. However, it can only be replaced with a subclass of View, which greatly extends the possibilities, including the use of layouts on the canvas.
The new canvas will always resize with the ScrollView, as far its size constraints allow. A plain View which completely disregards its children will be freely resizable, and hence the scrolling will never be possible, since the scrollbars are activated according to the size of the canvas. To prevent this, you can either place explicit size constraints on it using View: -minSize and similar, or you can install a layout on it, which will forward to it the size constraints of the children.
See the example below.
Once the canvas is replaced, new views constructed with the ScrollView as the parent will end up as children of the canvas view, equivalent to constructing them with the canvas as the parent, or inserting them into the layout installed on the canvas.
Returns either the rectangle corresponding to the size of the canvas, or the visible area of the ScrollView's background, whichever is larger. The position of the rectangle is always 0@0.
See the discussion above regarding the size of the canvas.
A Rect.
Gets the position on the canvas corresponding to its upper-left-most visible point, or moves the canvas so as to leave the given point on it at the top-left corner of the visible bounds, if possible.
| point |
A Point. |
Sets or gets whether the view hides one or another scrollbar if the contents do not exceed the view's bounds in the scrollbar's direction.
If -hasHorizontalScroller or -hasVerticalScroller is set to false, the respective scrollbar will always be hidden, regardless of this policy.
Defaults to true.
Sets or gets whether the view has the horizontal scrollbar. If this is true, the scrollbar may still be hidden if -autohidesScrollers allows so; however, if this is false the scrollbar will never be shown.
Defaults to true.
Sets or gets whether the view has the vertical scrollbar. If this is true, the scrollbar may still be hidden if -autohidesScrollers allows so; however, if this it false the scrollbar will never be shown.
Defaults to true.
Sets or gets whether the view draws its border.
Defaults to true.
Sets or gets the object to be evaluated when the user moves the scrollbars, or when -visibleOrigin is set.
By replacing the canvas of the ScrollView with a View, and installing a layout on it, the contents will expand to the edge of the ScrollView, and only exceed the edge if necessary.