Hello Noel, Here I got some chance to play with MS Excel 2010 and I analyzed the behavior of inputbar. I'm sending an image here showing the desire behavior. The first figure in the image shows the normal behavior showing only a single line and keep on wrapping the content text on overflows.This is what has already been done in single line mode. 2: Second thing is to enable the button press. On button press as you can see, only two lines are shown and scrollbar shifts its position below the button (that is probably to make the UI consistent adjusting the button and scrollbar in double the height of the line. This actually does not affect the text output area, just makes things consistent).Scrollbar works same way scrolling single line at a time.This can be said as multiline mode. 3: The third thing is to make the inputbar re-sizable on the mouse drag. On hovering the down edge of the inputbar here the cursor changes and can be dragged to show the hidden contents (this also happens in units of single line height. Also here the scrollbar's thumb size changes depending on the height of the inputbar.) So if this is implemented in similar way it can be good UI enhancement to LO. As of now I'm trying to set the position of the scrollbar and button, making them appear at the right place i.e. after the inputbar. Also as of now I do not have any idea about the implementing the resizing of inputbar. As I've already sent the patch for fixing the width, height and border of the InputBarGroup and after i get the positions correctly we can start working on these improvements. Thanks and regards -- Anurag Jain Final yr B.Tech CSE SASTRA University Thanjavur(T.N.)-613402
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