[maemo-developers] Using the scrollbar on the N810

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2008/2/19, josh.soref at nokia.com <josh.soref at nokia.com>:
> [snip observations that the web widget is catching mouse events
> outside the thumb but inside the scrollbar]
>> Unfortunately, this isn't really how things work. Either a widget asks
>>  to capture input, in which case it can get events outside its
>>  boundaries, or it doesn't.
>>
>>  If a widget does ask to capture events outside its boundaries, it then
>>  needs to have some idea about what to do with them.
>>
>>  And that's hard (and each group will implement it differently, but
>>  poorly)....
> 
> I don't understand this, why would the browser widget be interested in
> events that happen on the scrollbar widget? That's what happens
> anyway, I start a drag over the scrollbar outside the thumb and the
> page is panned as if I dragged on the page.

AFAIK the scrollbar is part of the HTML widget.


> Unless of course (and I guess this is the case) it's not really two
> widgets but one widget doing funny things. I don't see this with any
> other application, the scrollbar will "jump" to the direction of the
> stylus as expected if I start a drag outside the thumb.
> 
> So I suppose this particular bug can and should be fixed in the
> browser UI / browser engine...


	- Eero