[syslinux] Scrollbar visibility

[Gene Cumm]

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