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mouse wheel sends extra scroll event [message #640156]

Fri, 19 November 2010 11:34

Thomas M.

Messages: 4
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Hi

I derived a class from Composite which handles scroll events and mouse wheel events.

My mouse wheel listener already takes care of the necessary scrolling so I don't want the extra scroll events.

These seem to be sent when the CANVAS bit is set for the window. Here's the Scrollable code for Windows (GTK looks similar in structure)

/*
* Translate WM_MOUSEWHEEL to WM_VSCROLL or WM_HSCROLL.
*/
if (update) {

and update is set to (state & CANVAS) != 0

Questions

- How can I prevent scroll events?
- Derive from some different class?
- Can I influence the state (remove the CANVAS bit? or would that have other consequences?)

And lastly. Why does this extra scroll handling set the thumb position to 0???

OS.SendMessage (handle, msg, OS.SB_THUMBPOSITION, 0);

As this always sets the document to the beginning when using the mouse wheel.

Any help appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Re: mouse wheel sends extra scroll event [message #640537 is a reply to message #640156]

Mon, 22 November 2010 12:59

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

Hi,

In your mouse wheel listener you can set the event.doit field of the incoming mouse wheel event to false. This will prevent the default processing of the scroll event.

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

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Re: mouse wheel sends extra scroll event [message #640552 is a reply to message #640537]

Mon, 22 November 2010 13:30

Thomas M.

Messages: 4
Registered: November 2010

Junior Member

Thanks for your answer. I am afraid I can't get my hand on the doit field as the Event is translated into a MouseEvent which does not have this field.

Also it will not be evaluated. The mouseScrolled handler has void as return type and the passed event is also not evaluated upon return:

case SWT.MouseWheel: 
{
  ((MouseWheelListener) eventListener).mouseScrolled(new MouseEvent(e));
    return;
}

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Re: mouse wheel sends extra scroll event [message #640565 is a reply to message #640552]

Mon, 22 November 2010 14:04

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

Messages: 279
Registered: July 2009
Location: India

Senior Member

You should use Widget.addListener (int eventType, Listener listener) to add the listener to your composite. You can have a look at the constructor of the custom classes in org.eclipse.swt.custom to see how the listeners are added.

Lakshmi P Shanmugam

[Updated on: Mon, 22 November 2010 14:05]

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