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Hi All,

I can't seem to get horizontal scrolling working. My actual case is involved a WHBoxLayout with a resize handle between two child widgets where the two child widgets are WScrollAreas. The behavior I see is that the vertical scroll bar behaves as expected, but the horizontal scrollbar never functions - it seems that the WScrollArea does not want to shrink past the width of it's child, which leads to clipping.

I found a simple case where I see this behavior without the use of the resize handle - I assume that fixing this case will fix my other problem. Consider the following:

                Wt::WApplication *app = new WApplication( env );

                // use a VBox layout so that the app stretches to fill the window
                Wt::WVBoxLayout *topLevelLayout = new Wt::WVBoxLayout();
                app->root()->setLayout( topLevelLayout );

                Wt::WScrollArea* s = new Wt::WScrollArea( app->root() );
                s->setScrollBarPolicy( Wt::WScrollArea::ScrollBarAlwaysOn );
                topLevelLayout->addWidget( s );

                s->setWidget( new Wt::WLabel( "long text across <br /> multiple lines" ) );

Note: Set the label text to be something that is long and has many lines.

With both IE8 and Chrome, the horizontal scroll bar does not do any scrolling. Rather, the text gets clipped when the browser window in made narrow. It works well in the vertical direction.

Any thoughts on how to get the desired scrolling behavior?

I am using WT 3.1.4 with Visual Studio 2008.

Cheers,

Dan