There is a MousePosition function that will return the current mouse position as an ordered pair. I’m looking for a ScrollPosition function that will return the current scroll position as an ordered pair. Does anyone know if there is one or a workaround? Thank you.
Mike
Do you mean this?
Dynamic[MousePosition[]]
Paul.
Hi Paul,
No. But thank you for your response. : ) I’ll clarify…
If you have a notebook with lot of content open you will see a scroll bar on the far right and bottom. I’m looking for a function that will return the current value of of the scroll bars. I’d also like to be able to set the value of the scroll bars with a function call.
In a pane, there is a ScrollPosition option which allows you to set both scroll positions to an ordered pair like {500,600}. However, I don’t see an option for the entire notebook.
There does not seem to be a ScrollPosition option for Notebook. And hunting around in various other places there does not seem to be something that is equivalent. I wonder whether there is a means of using CurrentValue in someway to get at this. But, if not, then this is a very sensible suggestion to pass on to the developers because this is clearly a form of control of the notebook that should be in the system, and should be an option to Notebook.
Thank you David.
I can partially answer your second wish, you can scroll to some places 
with FrontEndTokens:
FrontEndTokenExecute[EvaluationNotebook[], "ScrollNotebookEnd"]
other that seems to be relevant:
{"ScrollLineDown", "ScrollLineUp", "ScrollNotebookEnd",
"ScrollNotebookStart", "ScrollPageBottom", "ScrollPageDown",
"ScrollPageFirst", "ScrollPageLast", "ScrollPageNext",
"ScrollPagePrevious", "ScrollPageTop", "ScrollPageUp"}
Thank you Kuba. Yep, I am aware of those tokens.
To clarify, I am moving around a notebook programmatically but then when I am done I would like to come back to where I started at same cell and the same scroll position. That way I don’t have to search up and down the screen. I want it to come back to the exact same position as when I left so the screen is in the exact same position as when I left and my eyes don’t have to move at all.
Though I don’t have a solution to “Exact”, there is an approach to getting back to the same cell that you were at. This is to tag the cell with a unique CellTag and then search for that CellTag using NotebookFind. Once found, you can then do a SelectionMove to Before the Cell or After the Cell. (Also before doing such a move you generally should remove the cell tag just for good housekeeping.) I am fond of tagging… See
http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/7246/
from some while ago.
You’re awesome! This will work. Thank you David!!!