posted 22 years ago
You use a low-level component, you'll need a low-level solution.
In other words, when the scrollbar moves, you'll have to redraw the affected parts of the canvas.
For smooth scrolling, you'll need to bit-blit. It's simpler to scroll line-by-line by rerendering the strings, but that makes for jerkier operation.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.