Setting mobile scroller hScroll fails

[Brian Milby]

I think it is going to take some math but the scroller should be set for the area within the card rect since the areas left/right are not going to be responsive to the scroller.

Thanks,
Brian
On May 29, 2019, 2:01 PM -0500, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Thanks Monte, I did over-summarize. I'm not sure why it's going wrong,
> but it sounds like it's something I'm doing. I have a standard
> "createScroller" handler that I've been using for years, but I've never
> had to set the hScroll before. It's always been zero.
>
> In this case, I set the hScroll of the group to the formattedWidth of
> the group, which may be wrong. The engine seems to compensate though and
> sets the scroll as far as it should go. Then I call "createScroller" and
> pass the name of the group. The handler:
>
> command createScroller pName
> -- pName = the long ID of a grp
> put the rect of control pName into tRect
> put the hScrollBar of control pName into tHScroller
> put the vScrollBar of control pName into tVScroller
> put the hScroll of control pName into tHScroll
> put the vScroll of control pName into tVScroll
> set the hScrollBar of control pName to false -- remove fld scrollbars
> on mobile
> set the vScrollBar of control pName to false
> mobileControlCreate "scroller", pName
> mobileControlSet pName, "rect", tRect
> put ("0,0," & (the formattedwidth of control pName) & "," & the
> formattedheight of control pName) into tContentRect
> mobileControlSet pName, "contentRect", tContentRect
> mobileControlSet pName, "hScroll", 0
> mobileControlSet pName, "vScroll", 0
> mobileControlSet pName, "hIndicator", tHScroller
> mobileControlSet pName, "vIndicator", tVScroller
> mobileControlSet pName, "hScroll", tHScroll
> mobileControlSet pName, "vScroll", tVScroll
> mobileControlSet pName, "visible", true
> end createScroller
>
> I initialize both the group and the scroller to 0 before doing anything
> else, because when I wrote it I couldn't get them to align correctly
> otherwise. I should also probably mention that I'm using fullscreenMode
> "showAll" and the group is expanded beyond the borders of the card to
> fill the screen; i.e., it probably has a negative left margin and a
> wider right margin. When the scroller finally does scroll (after
> resetting itself) it scrolls too far at the left side by the number of
> pixels between the screen left and the card left, and cuts off the same
> amount on the right side.
>
> Can you see what I should change?
>
>
> On 5/28/19 6:33 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:
> > Hi Jacque
> >
> > I’m thinking you are over summarising what you are doing here. For example, I expect you mean to set the hScroll of the group to the formattedWidth - the width of the group. Are you setting the contentRect appropriately before setting the hScroll of the scroller?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Monte
> >
> > > On 27 May 2019, at 8:03 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to verify this is a bug and not just me.
> > >
> > > I'm creating a mobile scroller over a group. I want the group to initially display with its hScroll all the way to the right. I'm doing this:
> > >
> > > zoom the group out to fill the screen
> > > create a mobile scroller with the same rect
> > > set the hScroll of the group to its formattedWidth
> > > set the hScroll of the scroller to the scroll of the group
> > >
> > > If I insert an answer command to show the scroller's hScroll it reports the correct number. But the scroller always acts like its scroll is 0, and it won't scroll to the left at all. But scrolling it to the right zaps both it and the group to zero and after that it scrolls normally.
> > >
> > > I've also tried not setting the group's scroll and just setting the scroller alone, thinking it might trigger the scrollerDidScroll handler, but it doesn't.
> > >
> > > If I don't set any hScroll at all on either the group or the scroller, all is well.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > >
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> > > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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