.NET Compact framework - make scrollbars wider

Question

Is there some way, how to make scrollbar wider in winforms for .net compact framework? I want to be application finger-friendly, but the scrollbars are very narrow for peopl

Answer 1

You can use reflection. Inspired by this link, my code would look something like this. (It may be a bit too careful, but I am not so sure how generic this would be with reflection. E.g. the VScrollBar is not found for a TextBox on this form.)

using System.Reflection;
    //...
    public static void SetVerticalScrollbarWidth(Control c, int w)
    {
        try
        {
            var lGridVerticScrollBar = GetNonPublicFieldByReflection(c, "m_sbVert");
            lGridVerticScrollBar.Width = w;
        }
        catch
        {
            // fail soft
        }
    }

    public DataGridForm()
    {
        SetVerticalScrollbarWidth(dataGrid, 30);
    }

    public static T GetNonPublicFieldByReflection(object o, string name)
    {
        if (o != null)
        {
            Type lType = o.GetType();
            if (lType != null)
            {
                var lFieldInfo = lType.GetField(name, BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.GetField | BindingFlags.Instance);
                if (lFieldInfo != null)
                {
                    var lFieldValue = lFieldInfo.GetValue(o);
                    if (lFieldValue != null)
                    {
                        return (T)lFieldValue;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        throw new InvalidCastException("Error in GetNonPublicFieldByReflection for " + o.ToString() );
    }