[maemo-developers] Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:48 +0100, David Greaves wrote:
> Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > Thanks to Claudio and API almost all my questions have been answered and
> > the Fremantle version of Conboy is looking better then ever :)
> > 
> > There is (for now) only one question left:
> > When using HildonTextView inside a PanableArea panning is working fine,
> > but I can no longer select text. Are those two mutual exclusive?
> 
> FWIW, I managed to implement this quite easily for Qt so I'm sure it's do-able
> in gtk too.
> 
> The trick I used is to create a queue of mouse events until I could determine
> whether or not the incoming gesture was a panning gesture. If it was the queue
> was discarded; if not the events were replayed to the correct widgets.
> 
> The decision was simply delta mouse movement within a time period.
> 
> This allowed selection and even drag'n'drop to "just work".

That sounds nice, but I was more hoping for a out-of-the-box solution. I
think this use-case is quite common - it's just a scrollable (ok
panable) text view. So doing like you did I would consider as last
resort.

Anyways, thanks for explaining your solution :)