Question

I found out about GWT’s CustomScrollPanel and how you can customize the scroll bar, but I can’t find any examples or how to set it up. Are there any examples out there that show custom scrollbars in use?

Answer 1

This is how you would customize the native scrollbars, however you could also develop your own scrollbar classes that implement VerticalScrollbar and HorizontalScrollbar that are a lot more customizable.

Resource (style) definitions:

public class ScrollResourcesContainer {

    public interface ScrollPanelResources extends CustomScrollPanel.Resources
    {
        @Override
        @Source( { "ScrollPanel.css", CustomScrollPanel.Style.DEFAULT_CSS } )
        CustomScrollPanel.Style customScrollPanelStyle();
    }

    public interface HorizontalResources extends NativeHorizontalScrollbar.Resources
    {
        @Override
        @Source( { "HorizontalScrollbar.css", NativeHorizontalScrollbar.StyleTransparant.DEFAULT_CSS } )
        NativeHorizontalScrollbar.Style nativeHorizontalScrollbarStyle();
    }

    public interface VerticalResources extends NativeVerticalScrollbar.Resources
    {
        @Override
        @Source( { "VerticalScrollbar.css", NativeVerticalScrollbar.StyleTransparant.DEFAULT_CSS } )
        NativeVerticalScrollbar.Style nativeVerticalScrollbarStyle();
    }
}

Usage through CustomScrollPanel :

    CustomScrollPanel csp = new CustomScrollPanel((ScrollResourcesContainer.ScrollPanelResources) GWT.create(ScrollResourcesContainer.ScrollPanelResources.class));
    csp.setHorizontalScrollbar(new NativeHorizontalScrollbar((HorizontalResources) GWT.create(HorizontalResources.class)),
    AbstractNativeScrollbar.getNativeScrollbarHeight());
    csp.setVerticalScrollbar(new NativeVerticalScrollbar((VerticalResources) GWT.create(VerticalResources.class)),
    AbstractNativeScrollbar.getNativeScrollbarWidth());