How To Auto-Hide Scrollbars On Edit Control ? C++

[SwissProgrammer]

I was reading about How To Auto-Hide Scrollbars On Edit Control and I did not like the complicated ways that were suggested.

Subclass, custom, etc.


I am using

C++11.
CodeBlocks 17.12 .
32 bit.

I want to hide the scrollbar when not needed.
I want to show the scrollbar only when it is needed.

Would it be easier to CreateWindowExW two

h_BoxThatScrolls = CreateWindowExW
            (
                WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
                L"edit",
                L"Lines of Stuff\r\n1\r\n2\r\n3\r\n4\r\n5\r\n6\r\n7\r\n8\r\n9\r\n10\r\n11\r\n12\r\n13\r\n14\r\n15\r\n16\r\n17\r\n18\r\n19\r\n20\r\n21\r\n22\r\n23\r\n24\r\n25\r\n26\r\n27\r\n28\r\n29\r\n30",
                WS_CHILD | ES_MULTILINE | ES_WANTRETURN | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | ES_AUTOVSCROLL,
                10, 10,
                100, 100,
                hwnd,
                (HMENU) BoxThatScrolls,
                GetModuleHandle( nullptr ),
                nullptr
            );

and

h_NoScrollBox = CreateWindowExW
            (
                WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
                L"edit",
                L"Lines of Stuff\r\n1\r\n2\r\n3",
                WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | ES_AUTOVSCROLL | ES_MULTILINE,
                10, 10,
                100, 100,
                hwnd,
                (HMENU) NoScrollBox,
                GetModuleHandle( nullptr ),
                nullptr
            );

Make the NoScrollBox visible.
Make the BoxThatScrolls invisible or hidden.
Make these the same size (width and height) and position them in the same place.


Put text into the NoScrollBox.

If the text (and whatever else is there) takes up more vertical room than the height of the NoScrollBox, put that stuff into the BoxThatScrolls. Make the NoScrollBox invisible. Make the BoxThatScrolls visible. Or set the zorder for that.

or

Maybe only use text and limit the length of each text line that I put in so that it will not go past the horizontal width of the edit window and then count the line returns ("\r\n") and if the line returns are above a certain total, use the BoxThatScrolls. That seems easy enough.



I am learning how to use CreateWindowExW and as I study it I have tried to get an easy answer (that I can easily understand) for this question.

Helpful comments, and of course code, are welcome.


Thank you.