Touch support

GtkScrolledWindow has built-in support for touch devices. When a touchscreen is used, swiping will move the scrolled window, and will expose 'kinetic' behavior. This can be turned off with the “kinetic-scrolling” property if it is undesired.

GtkScrolledWindow also displays visual 'overshoot' indication when the content is pulled beyond the end, and this situation can be captured with the “edge-overshot” signal.

If no mouse device is present, the scrollbars will overlayed as narrow, auto-hiding indicators over the content. If traditional scrollbars are desired although no mouse is present, this behaviour can be turned off with the “overlay-scrolling” property.

CSS nodes

GtkScrolledWindow has a main CSS node with name scrolledwindow.

It uses subnodes with names overshoot and undershoot to draw the overflow and underflow indications. These nodes get the .left, .right, .top or .bottom style class added depending on where the indication is drawn.

GtkScrolledWindow also sets the positional style classes (.left, .right, .top, .bottom) and style classes related to overlay scrolling (.overlay-indicator, .dragging, .hovering) on its scrollbars.

If both scrollbars are visible, the area where they meet is drawn with a subnode named junction.

gtk_scrolled_window_new ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_scrolled_window_new (GtkAdjustment *hadjustment,
                         GtkAdjustment *vadjustment);

Creates a new scrolled window.

The two arguments are the scrolled window’s adjustments; these will be shared with the scrollbars and the child widget to keep the bars in sync with the child. Usually you want to pass NULL for the adjustments, which will cause the scrolled window to create them for you.

gtk_scrolled_window_get_hadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_scrolled_window_get_hadjustment (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the horizontal scrollbar’s adjustment, used to connect the horizontal scrollbar to the child widget’s horizontal scroll functionality.

gtk_scrolled_window_set_hadjustment ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_hadjustment (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                     GtkAdjustment *hadjustment);

Sets the GtkAdjustment for the horizontal scrollbar.

gtk_scrolled_window_get_vadjustment ()

GtkAdjustment *
gtk_scrolled_window_get_vadjustment (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the vertical scrollbar’s adjustment, used to connect the vertical scrollbar to the child widget’s vertical scroll functionality.

gtk_scrolled_window_set_vadjustment ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_vadjustment (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                     GtkAdjustment *vadjustment);

Sets the GtkAdjustment for the vertical scrollbar.

gtk_scrolled_window_get_hscrollbar ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_scrolled_window_get_hscrollbar (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the horizontal scrollbar of scrolled_window .

Since: 2.8

gtk_scrolled_window_get_vscrollbar ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_scrolled_window_get_vscrollbar (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the vertical scrollbar of scrolled_window .

Since: 2.8

gtk_scrolled_window_get_policy ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_get_policy (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                GtkPolicyType *hscrollbar_policy,
                                GtkPolicyType *vscrollbar_policy);

Retrieves the current policy values for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars. See gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy().

gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                GtkPolicyType hscrollbar_policy,
                                GtkPolicyType vscrollbar_policy);

Sets the scrollbar policy for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars.

The policy determines when the scrollbar should appear; it is a value from the GtkPolicyType enumeration. If GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS, the scrollbar is always present; if GTK_POLICY_NEVER, the scrollbar is never present; if GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, the scrollbar is present only if needed (that is, if the slider part of the bar would be smaller than the trough — the display is larger than the page size).

gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                       GtkWidget *child);

Used to add children without native scrolling capabilities. This is simply a convenience function; it is equivalent to adding the unscrollable child to a viewport, then adding the viewport to the scrolled window. If a child has native scrolling, use gtk_container_add() instead of this function.

The viewport scrolls the child by moving its GdkWindow, and takes the size of the child to be the size of its toplevel GdkWindow. This will be very wrong for most widgets that support native scrolling; for example, if you add a widget such as GtkTreeView with a viewport, the whole widget will scroll, including the column headings. Thus, widgets with native scrolling support should not be used with the GtkViewport proxy.

A widget supports scrolling natively if it implements the GtkScrollable interface.

gtk_scrolled_window_get_placement ()

GtkCornerType
gtk_scrolled_window_get_placement (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Gets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars for the scrolled window. See gtk_scrolled_window_set_placement().

gtk_scrolled_window_set_placement ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_placement (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                   GtkCornerType window_placement);

Sets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars for the scrolled window.

The default is GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT, meaning the child is in the top left, with the scrollbars underneath and to the right. Other values in GtkCornerType are GTK_CORNER_TOP_RIGHT, GTK_CORNER_BOTTOM_LEFT, and GTK_CORNER_BOTTOM_RIGHT.

See also gtk_scrolled_window_get_placement() and gtk_scrolled_window_unset_placement().

gtk_scrolled_window_unset_placement ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_unset_placement (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Unsets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars for the scrolled window. If no window placement is set for a scrolled window, it defaults to GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT.

See also gtk_scrolled_window_set_placement() and gtk_scrolled_window_get_placement().

Since: 2.10

gtk_scrolled_window_get_shadow_type ()

GtkShadowType
gtk_scrolled_window_get_shadow_type (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Gets the shadow type of the scrolled window. See gtk_scrolled_window_set_shadow_type().

gtk_scrolled_window_set_shadow_type ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_shadow_type (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                     GtkShadowType type);

Changes the type of shadow drawn around the contents of scrolled_window .

gtk_scrolled_window_get_kinetic_scrolling ()

gboolean
gtk_scrolled_window_get_kinetic_scrolling
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the specified kinetic scrolling behavior.

Since: 3.4

gtk_scrolled_window_set_kinetic_scrolling ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_kinetic_scrolling
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gboolean kinetic_scrolling);

Turns kinetic scrolling on or off. Kinetic scrolling only applies to devices with source GDK_SOURCE_TOUCHSCREEN.

Since: 3.4

gtk_scrolled_window_get_capture_button_press ()

gboolean
gtk_scrolled_window_get_capture_button_press
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Return whether button presses are captured during kinetic scrolling. See gtk_scrolled_window_set_capture_button_press().

Since: 3.4

gtk_scrolled_window_set_capture_button_press ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_capture_button_press
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gboolean capture_button_press);

Changes the behaviour of scrolled_window with regard to the initial event that possibly starts kinetic scrolling. When capture_button_press is set to TRUE, the event is captured by the scrolled window, and then later replayed if it is meant to go to the child widget.

This should be enabled if any child widgets perform non-reversible actions on “button-press-event”. If they don't, and handle additionally handle “grab-broken-event”, it might be better to set capture_button_press to FALSE.

This setting only has an effect if kinetic scrolling is enabled.

Since: 3.4

gtk_scrolled_window_get_overlay_scrolling ()

gboolean
gtk_scrolled_window_get_overlay_scrolling
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns whether overlay scrolling is enabled for this scrolled window.

Since: 3.16

gtk_scrolled_window_set_overlay_scrolling ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_overlay_scrolling
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gboolean overlay_scrolling);

Enables or disables overlay scrolling for this scrolled window.

Since: 3.16

gtk_scrolled_window_get_min_content_width ()

gint
gtk_scrolled_window_get_min_content_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Gets the minimum content width of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Since: 3.0

gtk_scrolled_window_set_min_content_width ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_min_content_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gint width);

Sets the minimum width that scrolled_window should keep visible. Note that this can and (usually will) be smaller than the minimum size of the content.

It is a programming error to set the minimum content width to a value greater than “max-content-width”.

Since: 3.0

gtk_scrolled_window_get_min_content_height ()

gint
gtk_scrolled_window_get_min_content_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Gets the minimal content height of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Since: 3.0

gtk_scrolled_window_set_min_content_height ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_min_content_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gint height);

Sets the minimum height that scrolled_window should keep visible. Note that this can and (usually will) be smaller than the minimum size of the content.

It is a programming error to set the minimum content height to a value greater than “max-content-height”.

Since: 3.0

gtk_scrolled_window_get_max_content_width ()

gint
gtk_scrolled_window_get_max_content_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the maximum content width set.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_set_max_content_width ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_max_content_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gint width);

Sets the maximum width that scrolled_window should keep visible. The scrolled_window will grow up to this width before it starts scrolling the content.

It is a programming error to set the maximum content width to a value smaller than “min-content-width”.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_get_max_content_height ()

gint
gtk_scrolled_window_get_max_content_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Returns the maximum content height set.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_set_max_content_height ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_max_content_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gint height);

Sets the maximum height that scrolled_window should keep visible. The scrolled_window will grow up to this height before it starts scrolling the content.

It is a programming error to set the maximum content height to a value smaller than “min-content-height”.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_get_propagate_natural_width ()

gboolean
gtk_scrolled_window_get_propagate_natural_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Reports whether the natural width of the child will be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_width ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_width
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gboolean propagate);

Sets whether the natural width of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_get_propagate_natural_height ()

gboolean
gtk_scrolled_window_get_propagate_natural_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window);

Reports whether the natural height of the child will be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.

Since: 3.22

gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_height ()

void
gtk_scrolled_window_set_propagate_natural_height
                               (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
                                gboolean propagate);

Sets whether the natural height of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.

Since: 3.22

struct GtkScrolledWindow

struct GtkScrolledWindow;

struct GtkScrolledWindowClass

struct GtkScrolledWindowClass {
  GtkBinClass parent_class;

  gint scrollbar_spacing;

  /* Action signals for keybindings. Do not connect to these signals
   */

  /* Unfortunately, GtkScrollType is deficient in that there is
   * no horizontal/vertical variants for GTK_SCROLL_START/END,
   * so we have to add an additional boolean flag.
   */
  gboolean (*scroll_child) (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
	  		    GtkScrollType      scroll,
			    gboolean           horizontal);

  void (* move_focus_out) (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
			   GtkDirectionType   direction);
};

enum GtkPolicyType

Determines how the size should be computed to achieve the one of the visibility mode for the scrollbars.

enum GtkCornerType

Specifies which corner a child widget should be placed in when packed into a GtkScrolledWindow. This is effectively the opposite of where the scroll bars are placed.

The “hadjustment” property

  “hadjustment”              GtkAdjustment *

The GtkAdjustment for the horizontal position.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write / Construct

The “hscrollbar-policy” property

  “hscrollbar-policy”        GtkPolicyType

When the horizontal scrollbar is displayed.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC

The “kinetic-scrolling” property

  “kinetic-scrolling”        gboolean

Whether kinetic scrolling is enabled or not. Kinetic scrolling only applies to devices with source GDK_SOURCE_TOUCHSCREEN.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

Since: 3.4

The “max-content-height” property

  “max-content-height”       int

The maximum content height of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

Since: 3.22

The “max-content-width” property

  “max-content-width”        int

The maximum content width of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

Since: 3.22

The “min-content-height” property

  “min-content-height”       int

The minimum content height of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

Since: 3.0

The “min-content-width” property

  “min-content-width”        int

The minimum content width of scrolled_window , or -1 if not set.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: >= -1

Default value: -1

Since: 3.0

The “overlay-scrolling” property

  “overlay-scrolling”        gboolean

Whether overlay scrolling is enabled or not. If it is, the scrollbars are only added as traditional widgets when a mouse is present. Otherwise, they are overlayed on top of the content, as narrow indicators.

Note that overlay scrolling can also be globally disabled, with the “gtk-overlay-scrolling” setting.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

Since: 3.16

The “propagate-natural-height” property

  “propagate-natural-height” gboolean

Whether the natural height of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.

This is useful in cases where an attempt should be made to allocate exactly enough space for the natural size of the child.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.22

The “propagate-natural-width” property

  “propagate-natural-width”  gboolean

Whether the natural width of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.

This is useful in cases where an attempt should be made to allocate exactly enough space for the natural size of the child.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

Since: 3.22

The “shadow-type” property

  “shadow-type”              GtkShadowType

Style of bevel around the contents.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_SHADOW_NONE

The “vadjustment” property

  “vadjustment”              GtkAdjustment *

The GtkAdjustment for the vertical position.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write / Construct

The “vscrollbar-policy” property

  “vscrollbar-policy”        GtkPolicyType

When the vertical scrollbar is displayed.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC

The “window-placement” property

  “window-placement”         GtkCornerType

Where the contents are located with respect to the scrollbars.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: GTK_CORNER_TOP_LEFT

The “window-placement-set” property

  “window-placement-set”     gboolean

Whether "window-placement" should be used to determine the location of the contents with respect to the scrollbars.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

Since: 2.10

The “scrollbar-spacing” style property

  “scrollbar-spacing”        int

Number of pixels between the scrollbars and the scrolled window.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read

Allowed values: >= 0

Default value: 3

The “scrollbars-within-bevel” style property

  “scrollbars-within-bevel”  gboolean

Whether to place scrollbars within the scrolled window's bevel.

Owner: GtkScrolledWindow

Flags: Read

Default value: FALSE

Since: 2.12

The “edge-overshot” signal

void
user_function (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
               GtkPositionType    pos,
               gpointer           user_data)

The ::edge-overshot signal is emitted whenever user initiated scrolling makes the scrolled window firmly surpass (i.e. with some edge resistance) the lower or upper limits defined by the adjustment in that orientation.

A similar behavior without edge resistance is provided by the “edge-reached” signal.

Note: The pos argument is LTR/RTL aware, so callers should be aware too if intending to provide behavior on horizontal edges.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 3.16

The “edge-reached” signal

void
user_function (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
               GtkPositionType    pos,
               gpointer           user_data)

The ::edge-reached signal is emitted whenever user-initiated scrolling makes the scrolled window exactly reach the lower or upper limits defined by the adjustment in that orientation.

A similar behavior with edge resistance is provided by the “edge-overshot” signal.

Note: The pos argument is LTR/RTL aware, so callers should be aware too if intending to provide behavior on horizontal edges.

Flags: Run Last

Since: 3.16

The “move-focus-out” signal

void
user_function (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
               GtkDirectionType   direction_type,
               gpointer           user_data)

The ::move-focus-out signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted when focus is moved away from the scrolled window by a keybinding. The “move-focus” signal is emitted with direction_type on this scrolled window’s toplevel parent in the container hierarchy. The default bindings for this signal are Ctrl + Tab to move forward and Ctrl + Shift + Tab to move backward.

Flags: Action

The “scroll-child” signal

gboolean
user_function (GtkScrolledWindow *scrolled_window,
               GtkScrollType      scroll,
               gboolean           horizontal,
               gpointer           user_data)

The ::scroll-child signal is a keybinding signal which gets emitted when a keybinding that scrolls is pressed. The horizontal or vertical adjustment is updated which triggers a signal that the scrolled window’s child may listen to and scroll itself.

Flags: Action