continuous scrolling

[reist]

Hi,
Is there a way to make scrollbars continuously scroll when holding the left mouse button on them? I want to add this ability to StaticText and ScrollablePane widgets.

[lindquist]

There is a feature to make the mousebuttons autorepeat.
http://www.cegui.org.uk/api_reference/c ... aeadc7a55c

Though getting to the windows you want it for can be a little tricky.

You'll need to know a bit about how the automatically created widgets are named. A component widget (auto) has the name of its parent suffixed with a magic string.

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The scrollbars are suffixed with:
"__auto_vscrollbar__"
"__auto_hscrollbar__"

These scrollbars have auto widgets themselves named:
"__auto_incbtn__"
"__auto_decbtn__"
"__auto_thumb__"


So if your StaticText is called 'MyStatic' you would do something like this to make the buttons of the vertical scrollbar auto scroll when the mouse is held.

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WindowManager* wm = WindowManager::getSingletonPtr();
wm->getWindow("MyStatic__auto_vscrollbar____auto_decbtn__")->
    setMouseAutoRepeatEnabled(true);

wm->getWindow("MyStatic__auto_vscrollbar____auto_incbtn__")->
    setMouseAutoRepeatEnabled(true);


Another approach would be to make it the default setup for any scrollbar by doing the same thing via properties in the look'n'feel.

http://www.cegui.org.uk/api_reference/c ... epeat.html

[reist]

Thanks for the quick reply.
Seems I'll go with the looknfeel. The code approach looks pretty bad, especially doing it for each widget with scrollbars.

[Gaal]

Hi Reist,
Did you manage to make the mousebutton autorepeat?

Because I tried the both solutions for the Spinner (and for a basic button) and none of them worked for me.

Does anybody manage to make the MouseButton autorepeat?
Gaal

[Gaal]

After looking inside Spinner code, I noticed that the setMouseAutoRepeatEnabled is allready set to TRUE, for each increase et decrease buttons.
But it does not work in my programme.

Is there anything else I should add somewhere ?
I tried several things but could not cope with.
Merci d'avance
Gaal

[Ben811]

Hi,

got the same problem and found the solution in this thread:

http://www.cegui.org.uk/modules/newbb/v ... umpost5234

You have to tell CEGUI that the time is passing by...

...
To enable this you need to look at the function:
Window::setMouseAutoRepeatEnabled

For this to work, you also need to be correctly injecting time pulses each update via the function:

System::injectTimePulse
...

I've put that function in the draw callback or just take a separate timer thread...

Regards,

Ben