Question

I need to hide the arrow buttons of java.awt.Scrollbar(VERTICAL) in an AWT application.
Does anyone know how this can be achieved?

I saw an example here, but the code just hides the buttons. The vacant space for the buttons still remains; it is not occupied by the scroll bar.

To be more exact, here is the screenshot of what I should achieve. I am not sure which direction to go about it.

Update : I was looking for a solution in AWT. But now I am open to suggestions in Swing as well.

Answer 1

Try this.. it replaces the regular buttons on the Vertical ScrollBar with buttons that are 0x0 in size.

It does limit your look and feel though 🙁

JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane(mainPane);
scroller.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200,200));
// ... etc
scroller.getVerticalScrollBar().setUI(new BasicScrollBarUI()
    {   
        @Override
        protected JButton createDecreaseButton(int orientation) {
            return createZeroButton();
        }

        @Override    
        protected JButton createIncreaseButton(int orientation) {
            return createZeroButton();
        }

        private JButton createZeroButton() {
            JButton jbutton = new JButton();
            jbutton.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, 0));
            jbutton.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(0, 0));
            jbutton.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(0, 0));
            return jbutton;
        }
    });

Update: sorry, this is a swing solution