How to give swiping precedence over scrolling on mobile?

Terry Judd terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au
Thu Dec 20 17:18:05 EST 2018


Thanks Brahmanathaswami - was thinking about this again last night and in my case I think I might be able to get it to work for me if I just use touchmove (and only track the y delta) for the vertical scrolling and touchend for the swiping, which is for card to card navigation rather than horizontal scrolling.

Regards,

Terry...

On 20/12/2018 11:53 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    Terry, I'm interested in this also.
    
    Get the SivaSiva app ( no space... from iOS and Google Play)
    
    In the Listen Module, with Elanor's help, I tried to set up a "Spotify" UX with categories of audio scroll and up and down, and within on categories, left to right.
    
    I also get, what is a probably the same as you get, a "conflict" between Elanor touch events -- from scrolling left with right and up and down. 
    
    In this case we don’t use the mobileScroller at all in mobile, both up and down, left and right,  are implement with touch. But I think it is the same thing as you have... 
    
    What I am seeing is: when the up and down in active, the left to right touch is disabled. It "kinda" works for the user but is very "clunky". I tried playing with touch startx and y numbers. It gets "worse" as you go down in size.
    
    The script is small enough to put here. Would be nice of this were fixed but I don’t seeing how the engine would do it. It would seem that the pTouchX and pTouchY are managing the scroll independently. 
    
    So you try a "swipe" gesture with your thumb that goes "diagonally"  that is, changes is location on the  both "x" and "y" axes ... the engine is going to focus on say just the "y" cords -- you get an up to down scroll or vice-versa-- but "x" coord are not "seen" and  you don't get any left of right behavior -- in you case, a card swipe, in my case a group swipe left to right fails. 
    
    Until you stop and "focus" carefully on "x" axes gesture (left to right, or vice versa). then you get you Card/Group swipe horizontally...
    
    on touchStart pTouchID
       put empty into sStartX
       put empty into sStartY
       
       put the vScroll of grp "all-collections" into sStartYScroll
       
       put the long owner of the target into tHGroup  
       put the hScroll of tHGroup into sStartHScroll
    end touchStart
    
    on touchMove pTouchID, pTouchX, pTouchY
          if sStartY is empty then 
             put pTouchY into sStartY
          end if
          
          if sStartX is empty then
             put pTouchX into sStartX
          end if
          
          // Check for vertical scroll
          
          if pTouchY > (sStartY + 20) or pTouchY < (sStartY - 20) then
             set the vScroll of group "all-collections" to sStartYScroll + (sStartY-pTouchY)
          else
             
             if pTouchX > (sStartX + 10) or pTouchX < (sStartX - 10) then
                // Check for horizontal scroll
                
                put the long owner of the target into tHGroup  
                set the hScroll of tHGroup to sStartHScroll + (sStartX-pTouchX)
                
             end if
          end if
          
       end touchMove
    
    on touchEnd pTouchID
      -- code
    end touchEnd
    
    on touchRelease pTouchID
       -- code
    end touchRelease
    
    
    I wish there was are easy fix...but I suspect "not"
    
    Brahmanathaswami
     
    
    On 12/19/18, 2:58 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
    
        This is a problem that I have run into before and have never been able to solve satisfactorily. I’m using touchStart and touchEnd handlers to detect the direction and speed of a finger movement and if it is within certain bounds (large enough x, small enough y, and fast enough) then the user can swipe back and forwards through a series of cards. Good so far except when the area they are swiping on also includes a mobile scroller (to scroll a list selection widget/thingy). In that situation the swiping becomes a bit of a hit and miss thing – works sometimes but not others. On iOS there are a few scroller parameters look potentially useful (canCancelTouches, delayTouches, and lockDirection) but it’s not really clear (to me at least) which of these might help and if so whether I should be setting them to true or false.
        
        Any ideas?
        
        Terry...
    
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