Swipe gestures on a mobile scroller

[J. Landman Gay]

Well, it's good to know I'm not alone I guess. ;) I just wish I'd asked 
earlier, before I spent some hours tracking down the problem. I'd like 
to think the omission of mouseUp/touchEnd messages was an oversight, 
since we do get all the other mouse messages.

I haven't tried Paul's workaround. I'm not sure how it could work, since 
the horizontal scroll of my field is always zero. It doesn't scroll 
horizontally at all.

The fix should really be in the engine though.

On 11/19/16 8:53 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> Hi Jacque - I struggled with this for ages on an iOS and android app
> earlier in the year (vertical scrolling content with side-to-side
> swiping for navigation (a la iCal). After trying a truckload of
> different approaches (hacks) I mostly got it to work on iOS (I still
> got intermittent failures) and I eventually gave up altogether on
> android and used left and right buttons instead. Things might have
> improved then but based on your experience it sounds unlikely. Happy
> to dig out my hacky iOS code if that helps but engine level fixes
> would be better.
>
> Terry...
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On 20 Nov 2016, at 6:39 AM, J. Landman Gay
>> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/19/16 2:18 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I have a native mobile
>>> scroller handling the vertical scroll of a field. I want to add
>>> swipe gestures to change cards. When swiping, I get a mouseDown,
>>> sporadic mouseMoves (the logging might be interfering, not sure,
>>> but after a couple they stop) and no mouseUp at all.
>>>
>>> I tried using touchStart/touchMove/touchEnd instead and the
>>> result is the same. TouchStart always fires, touchMove is iffy,
>>> and touchEnd never happens.
>>>
>>> Without the end message I can't calculate the direction. Plain
>>> taps work fine with either set of messages, I do get
>>> mouseUp/touchEnd if it's a tap. It's only swipes that don't
>>> report.
>>>
>>> The scroller has its hScroll property set to false if that
>>> matters, as I don't want horizontal scrolling but I do want to
>>> track the touch direction.
>>
>> The problem has apparently been around for quite some time:
>> <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12419>
>>
>> Anyone have a workaround?
>>
>> -- Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com