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4/8/2010

This message is sent to a window when a scroll event occurs in the window's standard horizontal scroll bar. This message is also sent to the owner of a horizontal scroll bar control when a scroll event occurs in the control.

Syntax 

WM_HSCROLL 
nScrollCode = (int)LOWORD(
wParam);

nPos = (short int)HIWORD(
wParam);

hwndScrollBar = (HWND) 
lParam;

Parameters

nScrollCode

Value of the low-order word of wParam. Specifies a scroll bar value that indicates the user's scrolling request. It is be one of the following values.

Value Description

SB_ENDSCROLL

Ends scroll.

SB_LEFT

Scrolls to the upper left.

SB_RIGHT

Scrolls to the lower right.

SB_LINELEFT

Scrolls left by one unit.

SB_LINERIGHT

Scrolls right by one unit.

SB_PAGELEFT

Scrolls left by the width of the window.

SB_PAGERIGHT

Scrolls right by the width of the window.

SB_THUMBPOSITION

The user has dragged the scroll box (thumb) and released the mouse button. The nPosparameter indicates the position of the scroll box at the end of the drag operation.

SB_THUMBTRACK

The user is dragging the scroll box. This message is sent repeatedly until the user releases the mouse button. The nPosparameter indicates the position that the scroll box has been dragged to.
nPos

Value of the high-order word of wParam. Specifies the current position of the scroll box if the nScrollCodeparameter is SB_THUMBPOSITION or SB_THUMBTRACK; otherwise, nPosis not used.

hwndScrollBar

If the message is sent by a scroll bar, then hwndScrollBaris the handle to the scroll bar control. If the message is not sent by a scroll bar, hwndScrollBaris NULL.

Return Value

An application should return zero if it processes this message.

Remarks

The SB_THUMBTRACK message is typically used by applications that provide feedback as the user drags the scroll box.

If an application scrolls the content of the window, it must also reset the position of the scroll box by using the SetScrollPosfunction.

When the range of scroll bar uses a non-zero value for the minimum position, SB_THUMBTRACK and SB_THUMBPOSITION notifications report the current position incorrectly. The SB_THUMBPOSITION maps the scroll bar range to 0 - (max-min). The following code example shows how to work around this problem by adding your minimum to the nPosvalue passed in with this message.

Copy Code 
case WM_VSCROLL:
{
	int nScrollCode = (int)LOWORD(wParam);
	int nPos = (short int)HIWORD(wParam);
	SCROLLINFO si = {sizeof(SCROLLINFO), 
					 SIF_PAGE|SIF_POS|SIF_RANGE|SIF_TRACKPOS, 0, 0,
0, 0, 
					 0};
	GetScrollInfo (hWnd, SB_VERT, &si);
	int nNewPos = si.nPos;
	switch (nScrollCode)
	{
		// Include code that checks for other values of
nScrollCode.
		// ...
		case SB_THUMBPOSITION:
		nNewPos = nPos + si.nMin; // Adding si.nMin is the
workaround.
		break;
}
	si.fMask = SIF_POS;
	si.nPos = nNewPos;
	SetScrollInfo (hWnd, SB_VERT, &si, TRUE);
}
return TRUE;

Note that the WM_HSCROLL message carries only 16 bits of scroll box position data. Thus, applications that rely solely on WM_HSCROLL (and WM_VSCROLL) for scroll position data have a practical maximum position value of 65,535.

However, because the SetScrollInfo, SetScrollPos, SetScrollRange, GetScrollInfo, GetScrollPos, and GetScrollRangefunctions support 32-bit scroll bar position data, there is a way to circumvent the 16-bit barrier of the WM_HSCROLL and WM_VSCROLL messages. See GetScrollInfofor a description of the technique.

Requirements

Header winuser.h
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also