Small Talks/2011/December/Zk Fancy ScrollBar

Author
Deepak Agarwal, Java Lead, Paxcel Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Date
December 24, 2011

Version
ZK 5.0.5

Introduction

This article shows how to customize the scroll bars to match up to the theme of your application across the browsers.

ZKFancyBar is a wrapper over zk components (Currently, only Listbox and Grid) which uses scrollbar.js and customizes the scrollbars.

Structure

   css -------|-   fancy.css             (Modify if you need to)
   js    -------|-   scroll.js               (Modify if you need to)
                |-    prototype.js
                |-    livepipe.js
                |-    controls.js
                |-    effects.js
                |-    slider.js
                |-    scrollbar.js
 images----|- nodata.png
 WEB-INF
      |_____src--->net.paxcel.zk.fscroll.FancyScrollDiv            (Container div, encapsulates the structure needed by scroll.js)
                   |--->net.paxcel.zk.fscroll.FancyScrollListBox     ( extends ListBox and creates a FancyScrollDiv around it)
                   |--->net.paxcel.zk.fscroll.FancyScrollGrid     ( extends ListGrid and creates a FancyScrollDiv around it) 

Uses

1          <listbox model="@{win$StarController}" use="net.paxcel.zk.fancy.FancyScrollListBox" width="98%></listbox>

How does it look like

File:/ w/images/e/eb/FancyScrollDiv.png The right side bluish track is our scroll handle.