Syslinux - Mar 2011 - Scrollbar visibility

When I added more entries than would fit vertically in a PXE boot
menu (Cobbler's, using menu.c32), I wondered why there wasn't a
scroll bar.  Finally I realized there was one but it didn't look
very different from the existing screen border.  I changed the
color to increase its visibility.

However, it still doesn't give a good visual clue that it IS a
scrollbar.

Would it be possible to add up and down arrows to the top and
bottom of it so it's more obvious what it is?

Probably there are no arrows in the character set but I think
that a caret and a lowercase v would work well enough.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 00:01,  <vfaj-q0gm at dea.spamcon.org>
wrote:
> When I added more entries than would fit vertically in a PXE boot
> menu (Cobbler's, using menu.c32), I wondered why there wasn't a
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ by chance?
> scroll bar. ?Finally I realized there was one but it didn't look
> very different from the existing screen border. ?I changed the
> color to increase its visibility.
I believe the default color configuration makes it quite visible.
Changing the background color or using an image can definitely have an
effect (if used).
> However, it still doesn't give a good visual clue that it IS a
> scrollbar.
>
> Would it be possible to add up and down arrows to the top and
> bottom of it so it's more obvious what it is?
>
> Probably there are no arrows in the character set but I think
> that a caret and a lowercase v would work well enough.
Correct.  It's just the standard 8-bit character set that your
particular computer wishes to use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page#IBM_PC_.28OEM.29_code_pages


This should be possible by changing 2 characters in the appropriate C
file in menu.

-- 
-Gene