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Re: Mac trackpad horizontal scrolling with NEWT

Posted by Sven Gothel on Dec 31, 2012; 7:49am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Mac-trackpad-horizontal-scrolling-with-NEWT-tp4027658p4027662.html

On 12/30/2012 08:12 PM, pron [via jogamp] wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Mac notebooks support two-finger scrolling with the trackpad. This generates
> mouse-wheel events. With AWT, MouseWheelEvent.isShiftDown() returns false for
> vertical scrolling and true for horizontal scrolling. However, with NEWT,
> MouseEvent.isShiftDown() returns false in both cases (though it returns true
> when the shift key is actually down).
>
> This means that there is no way to detect horizontal scrolling. I've been able
> to find a twisted workaround by creating a translucent AWT frame on top of the
> NEWT window and capturing the events there, but it would be great if NEWT
> could also return true from MouseEvent.isShiftDown() in the case of horizontal
> scrolling.
>
Please file a bug report and make it depend on:
  <https://jogamp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=629>

Is this happing w/ a 'pure' NEWT OSX window ?

Then pls name the bug:
  'NEWT key modifier bits (SHIFT, ..) not set w/ trackpad 2 finger horizontal scrolling'
.. and add your description above.

~Sven



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