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### The Scrolled Listbox Widget

You can create a scrolled listbox widget using the `tixScrolledListBox` command. Notice that the widget created by the `tixScrolledListBox` command is not itself a listbox widget. Rather, it is a frame widget which contains two scrollbar subwidgets: one is called `hsb` (the horizontal scrollbar) and the other is called `vsb` (the vertical scrollbar). Similarly, the listbox being scrolled is also a subwidget which is appropriately called `listbox`. Therefore, if we need to put things into the listbox (as we always do!), we can use the `subwidget` method. As shown in program 2-7, we first find the pathname of the `listbox` subwidget by calling ```.sl subwidget listbox`''. Then, we insert some items into the `listbox` subwidget.

> `tixScrolledListBox .sl -scrollbar auto
> set listbox [.sl subwidget listbox]
> for {set x 0} {$x $<$ 6} {incr x} {
> $listbox insert end "This is item $x"
> }
> pack .sl -side left -expand yes -fill both`

(Figure 2-7) Scrolled Listbox Widget

(Figure 2-8) Scrolled ListBox with Automatic Scrollbars

Also, as seen in the first line of program 2-7, we use the `-scrollbar` option to control the scrolling policy of the TixScrolledListBox widget. Usually, we'll set it to ```auto`'': the scrollbars are displayed only if they are needed. Other possible values are ```both`'': the two scrollbars are always displayed; ```x`'': the horizontal scrollbar is always displayed, while the vertical scrollbar is always hidden; ```y`'': the opposite of ```x`''; ```none`'': the two scrollbars are always hidden. The result of program 2-7 is shown in figure 2-8.