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About Scroll Bars

A scroll bar is a scrolling device used in windows, dialog boxes, list boxes, and multi-line entry fields to let users see information that is too large to fit in the displayed view. Scroll bars conserve space.

A scroll bar consists of a scrolling area, a slider box, and boxes with arrows at each end. The following illustration shows horizontal and vertical scroll bars.

Scroll Bars

A CA Gen-generated application automatically handles vertical and horizontal scrolling on list boxes. Horizontal scrolling of prompts at the head of a list is synchronized with scrolling of the data to maintain the visual association of field names and field values.