With Flexible Windows, can you specify whether a window will have a scroll bar? (Inform 7)

Question

It looks as though Quixe (and the Inform IDE) shows a scroll bar by default for a text window, and Glulxe and Gargoyle do not show a scroll bar. Is showing or not showing a scroll bar something under the story author's control, or is it dependent on the player's interpreter settings?

Answer 1

It's dependent on the interpreter, authors have no control.

Comments

Is that true for other kinds of windows too? Or is there a kind of window that always/never shows a scroll bar?

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I think text grid and graphics won't.

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Note for others wondering about this--it seems that if you are releasing along with an interpreter (Quixe) you can customize the presence or absence of scroll bars with the CSS stylesheet.