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User Guide - Web Interface

20. Scroll Box

This guide demonstrates how to display a scroll box, embedded within the window frame container. Resizing the window frame also resizes the scroll box proportionately; clicking a scroll box text logs the event to the console.


                
               <!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Copyright (c) 2026 by Javaika Technologies -->

               <html lang = "en-AU"> <!-- Set the primary language to en-AU -->
    
                  <head>

                     <title>Scroll Box</title> <!-- Set the page title -->
                     
                     <meta name = "robots" content = "noindex, follow">
  
                  </head>


                  <body>

                     <!-- Include the framework script tag -->
    
                     <script type = "module" src = "https://www.javaika.com/frame/web-interface@main/api.js"></script>
    
    
                     <!-- Run the demo as an ES Module -->

                     <script type = "module">
      
                        // Initialize a shorter prefix for referencing.

                        const jwi = window.javaika.webInterface;
                     
                        let scrollBoxControl; // Declare scroll box control.
                     
                        let scrollBoxTexts = []; // Declare scroll box texts.
            
            
                        // Initialize the developer token endpoint.
            
                        jwi.init({
            
                           tokenEndpoint: "https://www.javaika.com/pscript/jwt-access.php"
            
                        });
            
            
                        // Authenticate before using the framework.
            
                        jwi.requestToken({
              
                           framework: "web_interface" // Specify the framework for token issuance.
              
                        });
                     
                     
                        // Authenticate callback handler.
                     
                        function onAuthenticate(event)
                        {
                           jwi.refreshToken(); // Refresh the authentication token.
              
                           console.log('[Web Interface] Authentication received callback:', event);
                        }
                     
                     
                        // Window frame resized callback handler.
                     
                        function onWindowFrameResized(event)
                        {
                           jwi.scaleInterfaceControls(event.detail.scaleFactor);
                        }
                     
                     
                        // Scroll box initialized callback handler.
                     
                        function onScrollBoxInitialized(event)
                        {
                           scrollBoxControl.setSizeFactor(1.5); // Increase initial size.
                        
                        
                           // Set scroll box texts via a function call.
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[3].setValue("4: Scroll box text value set by function");
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[4].setValue("5: Scroll box text value set by function");
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[5].setValue("6: Scroll box text value set by function");
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[6].setValue("7: Scroll box text value set by function");
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[7].setValue("8: Scroll box text value set by function");
                        
                        
                           // Add the scroll box texts to the scroll box control.
                        
                           for (let scrollBoxText of scrollBoxTexts)
                           {
                              scrollBoxControl.addTextEntry(scrollBoxText); // Add text.
                           
                           
                              scrollBoxText.setEvent
                              (
                                 'click', (event) => onClick(event, scrollBoxText) // Bind click event.
                              );
                           }
                        
                           console.log('[Web Interface] Scroll box initialized callback:', event);
                        }
                     
                     
                        // Click callback handler.
                     
                        function onClick(event, scrollBoxText)
                        {
                           const text = scrollBoxText.getText();
                        
                        
                           scrollBoxControl.removeTextEntry(scrollBoxText);
                        
                        
                           console.log('[Web Interface] Click callback:', event);
                        
                           console.log('[Web Interface] The text is:', text);
                        }
                     
                     
                        // Initialized callback handler.
                     
                        function onInitialized(event)
                        {
                           // Define the controls for the interface.
            
                           let windowFrame = new jwi.WindowFrame();
                        
                           scrollBoxControl = new jwi.ScrollBox();
                        
                        
                           // Set scroll box texts via the constructor.
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[0] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText
                           (
                              "1: Scroll box text value set by constructor"
                           );
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[1] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText
                           (
                              "2: Scroll box text value set by constructor"
                           );
            
                           scrollBoxTexts[2] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText
                           (
                              "3: Scroll box text value set by constructor"
                           );
                        
                        
                           // Define some other scroll box texts.
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[3] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText();
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[4] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText();
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[5] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText();
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[6] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText();
                        
                           scrollBoxTexts[7] = new jwi.ScrollBoxText();
                        
                        
                           // Add initial styles for the scroll box.
                        
                           scrollBoxControl.addStyle('height', '190px');
                        
                        
                           scrollBoxControl.addStyle('left', '12%');
                        
                           scrollBoxControl.addStyle('top', '22%');
                        
                        
                           // Add scroll box component to the window frame.
                        
                           windowFrame.addScrollBoxElement(scrollBoxControl);
                        
                        
                           // Enable manual resizing of the container window.
                        
                           jwi.setContainerManuallyResizable(true);
                        
                           jwi.setMaintainAspectRatio(true);
                        
                        
                           // Set handle offsets from the container window.
                        
                           jwi.setContainerOffsetHeight(50);
                        
                           jwi.setContainerOffsetWidth(50);
                        
                        
                           // Render interface to the browser window.
            
                           jwi.renderInterface(windowFrame);
                        
                        
                           console.log('[Web Interface] Framework initialized callback:', event);
                        }
                     
                     
                        // Callback event after authenticate.
            
                        document.addEventListener
                        (
                           'javaika.webInterface.authenticate', onAuthenticate
                        );
                     
                     
                        // Callback event after initialized.
            
                        document.addEventListener
                        (
                           'javaika.webInterface.initialized', onInitialized
                        );
                     
                     
                        // Callback event after scroll box initialized.
            
                        document.addEventListener
                        (
                           'javaika.webInterface.scrollBoxInitialized', onScrollBoxInitialized
                        );
                     
                     
                        // Callback event after window frame resize.
            
                        document.addEventListener
                        (
                           'javaika.webInterface.windowFrameResized', onWindowFrameResized
                        );
    
                     </script>

                  </body>
  
               </html>

            

                
               /* Standard class styles */

               .javaika-scroll-box
               {
                 background-color: #FFF;
              
                 box-sizing: border-box;
              
                 border: 1px solid;
                 border-color: #AAA;
              
                 position: absolute;
              
                 user-select: none;
                 overflow: hidden;
              
                 height: 200px;
                 width: 300px;
              
                 display: none;
               }
            
               .javaika-scroll-box-thumb
               {
                 background: linear-gradient(to right, #E0E0E0, #E0E0E0, #E0E0E0);
               
                 box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #E0E0E0 inset;
                    
                 position: absolute;
                 cursor: pointer;
              
                 height: 40px;
                 width: 100%;
               }
            
               .javaika-scroll-box-track
               {
                 background-color: #F5F5F5;
                    
                 position: absolute;
                 display: none;
              
                 height: 100%;
                 width: 8px;
              
                 right: 0;
                 top: 0;
               }
            
               .javaika-scroll-box-content
               {
                 padding-right: 5px;
                 padding-left: 5px;
              
                 font-size: 15px;
               }
            
               .javaika-scroll-box-text
               {
                 padding-bottom: 0.48em;
                 padding-top: 0.48em;
               }
            
            
               /* Adjoined class styles */
            
               .javaika-scroll-box.disabled
               {
                 pointer-events: none;
                 cursor: not-allowed;
              
                 opacity: 0.5;
               }
            
            
               /* Pseudo class styles */
            
               .javaika-scroll-box:focus
               {
                 outline: none;
               }
            
               .javaika-scroll-box:focus-visible
               {
                 outline: 2px solid #809DFF;
              
                 outline-offset: 3px;
               }

            
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