ScrolledWindow
GtkScrolledWindow
is a container that makes its child scrollable.
It does so using either internally added scrollbars or externally associated adjustments, and optionally draws a frame around the child.
Widgets with native scrolling support, i.e. those whose classes implement the iface@Gtk.Scrollable interface, are added directly. For other types of widget, the class class@Gtk.Viewport acts as an adaptor, giving scrollability to other widgets. method@Gtk.ScrolledWindow.set_child intelligently accounts for whether or not the added child is a GtkScrollable
. If it isn’t, then it wraps the child in a GtkViewport
. Therefore, you can just add any child widget and not worry about the details.
If method@Gtk.ScrolledWindow.set_child has added a GtkViewport
for you, it will be automatically removed when you unset the child. Unless property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:hscrollbar-policy and property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:vscrollbar-policy are %GTK_POLICY_NEVER or %GTK_POLICY_EXTERNAL, GtkScrolledWindow
adds internal GtkScrollbar
widgets around its child. The scroll position of the child, and if applicable the scrollbars, is controlled by the property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:hadjustment and property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:vadjustment that are associated with the GtkScrolledWindow
. See the docs on class@Gtk.Scrollbar for the details, but note that the “step_increment” and “page_increment” fields are only effective if the policy causes scrollbars to be present.
If a GtkScrolledWindow
doesn’t behave quite as you would like, or doesn’t have exactly the right layout, it’s very possible to set up your own scrolling with GtkScrollbar
and for example a GtkGrid
.
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 property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow: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 signal@Gtk.ScrolledWindow::edge-overshot signal.
If no mouse device is present, the scrollbars will overlaid 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 property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:overlay-scrolling property.
Shortcuts and Gestures
The following signals have default keybindings:
signal@Gtk.ScrolledWindow::scroll-child
CSS nodes
GtkScrolledWindow
has a main CSS node with name scrolledwindow. It gets a .frame style class added when property@Gtk.ScrolledWindow:has-frame is true.
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.
Accessibility
Until GTK 4.10, GtkScrolledWindow
used the GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_GROUP
role.
Starting from GTK 4.12, GtkScrolledWindow
uses the GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_GENERIC
role.
Skipped during bindings generation
parameter
hscrollbar_policy
: hscrollbar_policy: Out parameter is not supportedmethod
hadjustment
: Property TypeInfo of getter and setter do not matchmethod
hscrollbar-policy
: Property has no getter nor settermethod
vadjustment
: Property TypeInfo of getter and setter do not matchmethod
vscrollbar-policy
: Property has no getter nor setter
Constructors
Properties
The accessible role of the given GtkAccessible
implementation.
A list of css classes applied to this widget.
Whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.
Enables or disables the emission of the ::query-tooltip signal on @widget.
Whether to use the hexpand
property.
Whether kinetic scrolling is enabled or not.
The GtkLayoutManager
instance to use to compute the preferred size of the widget, and allocate its children.
Margin on bottom side of widget.
Margin on start of widget, horizontally.
The maximum content height of @scrolled_window.
The maximum content width of @scrolled_window.
The minimum content height of @scrolled_window.
The minimum content width of @scrolled_window.
Whether overlay scrolling is enabled or not.
Whether the natural height of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.
Whether the natural width of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.
Whether the widget will receive the default action when it is focused.
The scale factor of the widget.
Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string, which is marked up with Pango markup.
Sets the text of tooltip to be the given string.
Whether to use the vexpand
property.
Where the contents are located with respect to the scrollbars.
Functions
Enable or disable an action installed with gtk_widget_class_install_action().
Looks up the action in the action groups associated with
Activates the default.activate
action from @widget.
Adds @controller to @widget so that it will receive events.
Adds a style class to @widget.
Adds a widget to the list of mnemonic labels for this widget.
Queues an animation frame update and adds a callback to be called before each frame.
Requests the user's screen reader to announce the given message.
Called by widgets as the user moves around the window using keyboard shortcuts.
Computes the bounds for @widget in the coordinate space of @target.
Computes whether a container should give this widget extra space when possible.
Translates the given @point in @widget's coordinates to coordinates relative to @target’s coordinate system.
Computes a matrix suitable to describe a transformation from
Signals that all holders of a reference to the widget should release the reference that they hold.
Emitted when the text direction of a widget changes.
Emitted whenever user initiated scrolling makes the scrolled window firmly surpass the limits defined by the adjustment in that orientation.
Emitted whenever user-initiated scrolling makes the scrolled window exactly reach the lower or upper limits defined by the adjustment in that orientation.
Emitted when @widget is hidden.
Emitted if keyboard navigation fails.
Emitted when @widget is going to be mapped.
Emitted when a widget is activated via a mnemonic.
Emitted when the focus is moved.
Emitted when focus is moved away from the scrolled window by a keybinding.
Emitted when @widget is associated with a GdkSurface
.
Emitted when a keybinding that scrolls is pressed.
Emitted when @widget is shown.
Emitted when the widget state changes.
Emitted when @widget is going to be unmapped.
Emitted when the GdkSurface
associated with @widget is destroyed.
Creates a new PangoLayout
with the appropriate font map, font description, and base direction for drawing text for this widget.
Clears the template children for the given widget.
Retrieves the accessible parent for an accessible object.
Retrieves the accessible role of an accessible object.
Returns the baseline that has currently been allocated to @widget.
Returns the height that has currently been allocated to @widget.
Returns the width that has currently been allocated to @widget.
Gets the first ancestor of @widget with type @widget_type.
Retrieves the accessible implementation for the given GtkAccessible
.
Returns the baseline that has currently been allocated to @widget.
Gets the ID of the @buildable object.
Determines whether the input focus can enter @widget or any of its children.
Queries whether @widget can be the target of pointer events.
Gets the value set with gtk_widget_set_child_visible().
Gets the clipboard object for @widget.
Returns the list of style classes applied to @widget.
Returns the CSS name that is used for @self.
Gets the reading direction for a particular widget.
Get the GdkDisplay
for the toplevel window associated with this widget.
Retrieves the first accessible child of an accessible object.
Returns the widget’s first child.
Determines whether @widget can own the input focus.
Returns the current focus child of @widget.
Returns whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.
Gets the font map of @widget.
Obtains the frame clock for a widget.
Returns the horizontal scrollbar’s adjustment.
Gets whether the scrolled window draws a frame.
Returns the current value of the has-tooltip
property.
Gets whether the widget would like any available extra horizontal space.
Gets whether gtk_widget_set_hexpand() has been used to explicitly set the expand flag on this widget.
Returns the horizontal scrollbar of @scrolled_window.
Returns the specified kinetic scrolling behavior.
Returns the widget’s last child.
Retrieves the layout manager used by @widget.
Gets the bottom margin of @widget.
Gets the end margin of @widget.
Gets the start margin of @widget.
Gets the top margin of @widget.
Returns the maximum content height set.
Returns the maximum content width set.
Gets the minimal content height of @scrolled_window.
Gets the minimum content width of @scrolled_window.
Retrieves the next accessible sibling of an accessible object
Returns the widget’s next sibling.
#Fetches the requested opacity for this widget.
Returns the widget’s overflow value.
Returns whether overlay scrolling is enabled for this scrolled window.
Gets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars.
Query a platform state, such as focus.
Retrieves the minimum and natural size of a widget, taking into account the widget’s preference for height-for-width management.
Returns the widget’s previous sibling.
Gets the primary clipboard of @widget.
Reports whether the natural height of the child will be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.
Reports whether the natural width of the child will be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.
Determines whether @widget is realized.
Determines whether @widget is always treated as the default widget within its toplevel when it has the focus, even if another widget is the default.
Gets whether the widget prefers a height-for-width layout or a width-for-height layout.
Retrieves the internal scale factor that maps from window coordinates to the actual device pixels.
Returns the widget’s sensitivity.
Gets the settings object holding the settings used for this widget.
Returns the content width or height of the widget.
Returns the widget state as a flag set.
Returns the style context associated to @widget.
Fetch an object build from the template XML for @widget_type in this @widget instance.
Gets the contents of the tooltip for @widget.
Gets the contents of the tooltip for @widget.
Returns the vertical scrollbar’s adjustment.
Gets whether the widget would like any available extra vertical space.
Gets whether gtk_widget_set_vexpand() has been used to explicitly set the expand flag on this widget.
Determines whether the widget is visible.
Returns the vertical scrollbar of @scrolled_window.
Returns whether @css_class is currently applied to @widget.
Determines whether @widget is the current default widget within its toplevel.
Determines if the widget should show a visible indication that it has the global input focus.
Returns whether the widget is currently being destroyed.
Creates and initializes child widgets defined in templates.
Inserts @group into @widget.
Inserts @widget into the child widget list of @parent.
Inserts @widget into the child widget list of @parent.
Determines whether @widget is somewhere inside @ancestor, possibly with intermediate containers.
Determines whether @widget can be drawn to.
Returns the widget’s effective sensitivity.
Emits the ::keynav-failed
signal on the widget.
Returns the widgets for which this widget is the target of a mnemonic.
Emits the ::mnemonic-activate signal.
Returns a GListModel
to track the children of @widget.
Returns a GListModel
to track the class@Gtk.EventControllers of @widget.
Flags the widget for a rerun of the vfunc@Gtk.Widget.size_allocate function.
Flags a widget to have its size renegotiated.
Removes @controller from @widget, so that it doesn't process events anymore.
Removes a style from @widget.
Removes a widget from the list of mnemonic labels for this widget.
Removes a tick callback previously registered with gtk_widget_add_tick_callback().
Resets the accessible @property to its default value.
Resets the accessible @relation to its default value.
Resets the accessible @state to its default value.
Sets the parent and sibling of an accessible object.
Specifies whether the input focus can enter the widget or any of its children.
Sets whether @widget can be the target of pointer events.
Sets whether @widget should be mapped along with its parent.
Clear all style classes applied to @widget and replace them with @classes.
Sets a named cursor to be shown when pointer devices point towards @widget.
Sets the reading direction on a particular widget.
Specifies whether @widget can own the input focus.
Set @child as the current focus child of @widget.
Sets whether the widget should grab focus when it is clicked with the mouse.
Sets the font map to use for Pango rendering.
Sets the GtkAdjustment
for the horizontal scrollbar.
Changes the frame drawn around the contents of @scrolled_window.
Sets the has-tooltip
property on @widget to @has_tooltip.
Sets whether the widget would like any available extra horizontal space.
Sets whether the hexpand flag will be used.
Turns kinetic scrolling on or off.
Sets the layout manager delegate instance that provides an implementation for measuring and allocating the children of @widget.
Sets the bottom margin of @widget.
Sets the end margin of @widget.
Set all margins to the same value.
Set start and end margin to horizontal and top and bottom margin to vertical
Set margins.
Sets the start margin of @widget.
Sets the top margin of @widget.
Sets the maximum height that @scrolled_window should keep visible.
Sets the maximum width that @scrolled_window should keep visible.
Sets the minimum height that @scrolled_window should keep visible.
Sets the minimum width that @scrolled_window should keep visible.
Request the @widget to be rendered partially transparent.
Sets how @widget treats content that is drawn outside the widget's content area.
Enables or disables overlay scrolling for this scrolled window.
Sets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars for the scrolled window.
Sets the scrollbar policy for the horizontal and vertical scrollbars.
Sets whether the natural height of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural height.
Sets whether the natural width of the child should be calculated and propagated through the scrolled window’s requested natural width.
Specifies whether @widget will be treated as the default widget within its toplevel when it has the focus, even if another widget is the default.
Sets the sensitivity of a widget.
Sets the minimum size of a widget.
Turns on flag values in the current widget state.
Sets @markup as the contents of the tooltip, which is marked up with Pango markup.
Sets @text as the contents of the tooltip.
Sets the GtkAdjustment
for the vertical scrollbar.
Sets whether the widget would like any available extra vertical space.
Sets whether the vexpand flag will be used.
Sets the visibility state of @widget.
Returns whether @widget should contribute to the measuring and allocation of its parent.
Triggers a tooltip query on the display where the toplevel of @widget is located.
Unsets the placement of the contents with respect to the scrollbars.
Turns off flag values for the current widget state.
Updates the next accessible sibling of @self.