here is a JAVA processing example
// Move the scrollbars left and right to change the positions of the images.
HScrollbar hs1; // scrollbar
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void setup() {
size(640, 360);
noStroke();
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hs1 = new HScrollbar(0, height-11,
width, 16,
16);
}
void draw() {
background(255);
// Get the position of the scrollbar
float pos1 = hs1.getPos();
pushMatrix();
fill(0);
translate(0, -map(pos1, 0, width, 0, 2000));// position of the scrollbar
text(s1,
14, 14,
width-30, 99999);
popMatrix();
hs1.update();
hs1.display();
}
// ==============================================================================
class HScrollbar {
int swidth, sheight; // width and height of bar
float xpos, ypos; // x and y position of bar
float spos, newspos; // x position of slider
float sposMin, sposMax; // max and min values of slider
int loose; // how loose/heavy
boolean over; // is the mouse over the slider?
boolean locked;
float ratio;
HScrollbar (float xp, float yp, // position
int sw, int sh, // size
int l) {
swidth = sw;
sheight = sh;
int widthtoheight = sw - sh;
ratio = (float)sw / (float)widthtoheight;
xpos = xp;
ypos = yp-sheight/2;
spos = xpos + swidth/2 - sheight/2;
newspos = 0; // spos;
sposMin = xpos;
sposMax = xpos + swidth - sheight;
loose = l;
}
void update() {
if (overEvent()) {
over = true;
} else {
over = false;
}
if (mousePressed && over) {
locked = true;
}
if (!mousePressed) {
locked = false;
}
if (locked) {
newspos = constrain(mouseX-sheight/2, sposMin, sposMax);
}
if (abs(newspos - spos) > 1) {
spos = spos + (newspos-spos)/loose;
}
}
float constrain(float val, float minv, float maxv) {
return min(max(val, minv), maxv);
}
boolean overEvent() {
if (mouseX > xpos && mouseX < xpos+swidth &&
mouseY > ypos && mouseY < ypos+sheight) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
void display() {
noStroke();
fill(204);
rect(xpos, ypos, swidth, sheight);
if (over || locked) {
fill(0, 0, 0);
} else {
fill(102, 102, 102);
}
rect(spos, ypos, sheight, sheight);
}
float getPos() {
// Convert spos to be values between
// 0 and the total width of the scrollbar
return spos * ratio;
}
}//class
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