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Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Marc Clifton4-Mar-20 5:10

4-Mar-20 5:10

Apparently some recent update made the horizontal scrollbar "auto-hide".

So first you have to mouse-hover near it. But then the "resize window" up/down arrow shows up. It appears there is about a 2 pixel high region near the top of the horizontal scrollbar that is actually useable.

I remember when these hidden scrollbars showed up in Ubuntu. Pretty much the reason I ditched Ubuntu. Such a time waster. Move mouse, hover, wait, click, oops, moved mouse when clicked, repeat.

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Greg Utas4-Mar-20 5:17

4-Mar-20 5:17

They're trying to train you to break lines at a reasonable location so that you don't need horizontal scroll bars.

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Stefan_Lang4-Mar-20 21:24

4-Mar-20 21:24

Or just resize your window across three monitors: when your editor is 5000 pixels wide, you won't need a scroll bar. Poke tongue | ;-P

Poke tongue | ;-P

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Greg Utas5-Mar-20 1:32

5-Mar-20 1:32

Won't work for me. My wife took over my large desk, so I use my laptop on a little one! She has two monitors, so I'll thank you not to give her any ideas! Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Paddington Bear4-Mar-20 5:36

Paddington Bear

4-Mar-20 5:36

Why don't you just disable the scrollbar auto-hide? Or am I missing something?

It goes without saying

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Marc Clifton4-Mar-20 6:13

4-Mar-20 6:13

Paddington Bear wrote:
Why don't you just disable the scrollbar auto-hide? Or am I missing something?

Googling exactly that, it doesn't seem possible. The most recent post I found talks about making it taller and a different color, but being able to always show it is one of those features people want but nobody has implemented.

Apparently. My google-fu could be off.

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Richard Deeming4-Mar-20 7:17

Richard Deeming

4-Mar-20 7:17

vscode settings - Make horizontal scrollbar more visible in Visual Studio code - Stack Overflow[^]
vscode settings - How to make scrollbars wider in Visual Studio Code? - Stack Overflow[^]

You'll need to manually open %APPDATA%\Code\User\settings.json, since the settings editor doesn't know about these properties.

JavaScript

{
    ...
    "editor.scrollbar.horizontal": "visible",
    "editor.scrollbar.horizontalScrollbarSize": 20
}

That at least makes it taller and always visible.

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Marc Clifton4-Mar-20 8:05

4-Mar-20 8:05

Cool. A crappy workaround (now I have a scrollbar 20 pixels high, yes I could make it shorter) for stupid UX design.

But not wanting to shoot the messenger, thank you! Big Grin | :-D

Big Grin | :-D

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

alang_icon4-Mar-20 22:55

4-Mar-20 22:55

Yay, editing obscure json config files to get it to do (almost) exactly what you want - Windows is slowly, but surely, turning into Linux!

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Jeroen_R5-Mar-20 2:19

5-Mar-20 2:19

That specific json isn't really obscure. It's the one that is behind the settings screen (user tab)

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Paddington Bear4-Mar-20 21:24

Paddington Bear

4-Mar-20 21:24

How to keep scrollbars always visible on Windows 10 April 2018 Update[^]

This is one of the first things I do on a new Win 10 machine/installation.

I've not yet found a way to stop those auto reboots after updates...

It goes without saying

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Gerry Schmitz4-Mar-20 6:21

4-Mar-20 6:21

Set "text wrap" on? XML, XAML attributes on separate lines (option). Format document. Mouse wheel for vertical scrolling. Almost never have to scroll horizontal or touch scroll bars.

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Rage4-Mar-20 6:26

4-Mar-20 6:26

This is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

dandy724-Mar-20 8:04

4-Mar-20 8:04

Rage wrote:
This is the standard behaviour also for any vertical Windows (as in Windows OS) scrollbar. And is terribly annoying - who the elephant wants auto hiding scrollbars ???

The same people who thought turning Windows into a tablet OS was a good idea.

They still haven't turned the clock back far enough.

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Forogar 4-Mar-20 7:13

4-Mar-20 7:13

See also my rant: The Lounge[^] which includes complaints about invisible scroll bars.

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Mike Hankey4-Mar-20 8:22

4-Mar-20 8:22

It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Mark_Wallace4-Mar-20 8:35

4-Mar-20 8:35

Mike Hankey wrote:
It's as frustrating as spending 20 minutes trying to find your glasses when they're on top of your head. Dammit now I forgot what I was going to do.

WE have the advanced technology required to ameliorate that problem.

It's called "a piece of string".

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Mike Hankey4-Mar-20 8:37

4-Mar-20 8:37

I'll have to research the string thing. Smile | :)

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Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

raddevus4-Mar-20 8:58

4-Mar-20 8:58

I was so going to rant about this a few months ago when I started using VSC (Visual Studio Code).
You explain the problem exactly. It takes a moment for it to appear and in that moment you click the edge of the window!!!! Mad | :mad:

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Mad | :mad:

It's so annoying!!!

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

Cp-Coder4-Mar-20 11:32

4-Mar-20 11:32

???? My VS2019 is up to date and shows the horizontal scroll bar by default. Confused | :confused:

Confused | :confused:

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

nedo_0074-Mar-20 21:52

4-Mar-20 21:52

But .. why do you need to see the scroll bar? Simply hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to scroll horizontally

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

t-j@home4-Mar-20 22:36

4-Mar-20 22:36

this has absolutely MADE MY DAY - who knew that shift-scroll was even a thing - thank you

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

obermd5-Mar-20 3:48

5-Mar-20 3:48

XEROX PARC established visible scroll bars whenever the display area was larger than the window. This is a great visual that there's more information than can be displayed. Whoever decided it was a good idea to change this design is an idiot.

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

maze35-Mar-20 3:51

5-Mar-20 3:51

I think it was IE that had a resized scroll bar when hover over it. A design decision that for some seems great, but for me control elements with shape transforms are just distracting

Re: Elephanting Visual Studio Code

agolddog5-Mar-20 4:15

5-Mar-20 4:15

Yeah, auto-hidden scrollbars are the worst. I want an at-a-glance indication if there's more context I need to be aware of.

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