How can I make the up and down arrows dissapear in a scrollbar ?

Question

Hello
I am new to win32. I have created a simple window with a input box. It has a vertical scrollbar. I want to remove the arrows. I tried EnableScrollbar function but couldn't use it.
This is my code

hwndInputBox = CreateWindowEx(  

    0,
    L"EDIT",
    L"Yo",
    WS_BORDER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | ES_MULTILINE,
    x / 10,
    y / 10 * 2,
    x - 2 * (x / 10) - x / 5,
    y / 4,
    m_hwnd,
    NULL, 
    (HINSTANCE)GetWindowLongPtr(m_hwnd, GWLP_HINSTANCE),
    NULL
);
SendMessage(hwndInputBox, WM_SETFONT, (WPARAM)buttonFontA, TRUE);
EnableScrollBar(hwndInputBox, SB_VERT, ESB_DISABLE_BOTH);

Please give a simple example.
Thank you

Answer 1

Hello,
as far as I know, the standard Windows scrollbars do not have owner-draw functionality in Windows API to only remove the arrows.
If you don't want the scroll bar in your input box, do not enable scrolling.
Maybe, you can use this class and change the pictures of up and down arrows to empty pictures: Custom-Scrollbar-Library-version-1-1
Regards, Guido

Edit: here is another class: Replace-a-Window-s-Internal-Scrollbar-with-a-custo

Answer 2

Hi,

The EnableScrollBar function enables or disables one or both scroll bar arrows. As far as I'm concerned, the EnableScrollBar function only enable/disable the function of the scroll bar arrows but not remove the arrows.

And in my opinion, it seems that there is no function to remove arrows.

Best Regards,

Jeanine

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Answer 3

I am also curious to know why you want to remove arrow , This mean you don't need scrollbar in your application and if that is the condition then don't add it at first place itself.

Thanks