diff --git a/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.cpp b/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.cpp
index 73fa733be..5e4c046f3 100644
--- a/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.cpp
@@ -220,6 +220,16 @@ void CComponentsScrollBar::initSegments()
 	}
 }
 
+void getScrollBarData(int *total_pages, int *current_page, int total_items, int items_per_page, int selected_item)
+{
+	// avoid divison by zero and fix wrong values
+	total_items	= std::max(total_items, 1);
+	items_per_page	= std::max(items_per_page, 1);
+	selected_item	= std::max(selected_item, 0);
+
+	*total_pages	= ((total_items - 1) / items_per_page) + 1;
+	*current_page	= selected_item / items_per_page;
+}
 
 void paintScrollBar(	const int &x_pos,
 			const int &y_pos,
diff --git a/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.h b/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.h
index 8658d5428..8bd1c0568 100644
--- a/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.h
+++ b/src/gui/components/cc_frm_scrollbar.h
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ class CComponentsScrollBar : public CComponentsFrmChain
 		void disableVisualize(){enableVisualize(false);}
 };
 
+void getScrollBarData(int *total_pages, int *current_page, int total_items, int items_per_page, int selected_item);
+
 		/**Small and easy to apply scrollbar paint methode without expilcit object declaration
 		* @return 			void
 		*