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Is there a way you could enable touch events for scrolling the chat history? I'm using a Surface and trying to touch scroll just selects messages. Other than th

Is there a way you could enable touch events for scrolling the chat history? I'm using a Surface and trying to touch scroll just selects messages. Other than that my first impressions are pretty good.

tumult 7y ago
I'm actually not sure why this isn't working for a Surface running Windows. I would have assumed that it would emulate mousewheel events. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wintouch/windows-touch-gestures-overview#interpreting-windows-touch-gestures https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wintouch/wind... I'm guessing this is what needs to be handled. I wonder if Qt is already interacting with this system, and I'm handling it improperly on Win32. Does scrolling with touch gestures work for you in other types of scrollable views, such as the sidebar, or the workspace files list?
- katmannthree 7y ago
  It seems to be an issue with Qt, I just checked a bunch of the example applications and none of them allow touch-based scrolling. There's also this, an open 5 year old bug report. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40461 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40461
  - tumult 7y ago
    OK. I will see if I can find a way to emulate a touch device like this one on Windows for testing. I can pre-empt Qt's input system for these types of events and handle them manually in Ripcord's own application code.
    - TeMPOraL 7y ago
      Seconding, please do. I'm a paying Ripcord user working on a Dell 2-in-1 (essentially a Surface clone with a better price tag), and I miss proper touch (and pen) handling too - to the point that I started looking into fixing this on my own with AutoHotkey (I'm thinking of an always-on-top semi-transparent area I could touch / pen over, which would translate this into appropriate mouse events to send to Ripcord to make it scroll). But it would be vastly better if I didn't need to do this :). Oh, and since I have you here: would it be possible for you to look into the group DM handling? We run plenty of group DMs at work, and I have two problems with them: one, they tend to randomly disappear from the sidebar, and two, there seems to be no way to start a group DM from Ripcord. Also, again, thank you for your hard work.
      - tumult 7y ago
        The next update will partially address the group DM thing.
        TeMPOraL 7y ago
        Thank you!

tumult 7y ago

I'm actually not sure why this isn't working for a Surface running Windows. I would have assumed that it would emulate mousewheel events. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wintouch/windows-touch-gestures-overview#interpreting-windows-touch-gestures https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wintouch/wind... I'm guessing this is what needs to be handled. I wonder if Qt is already interacting with this system, and I'm handling it improperly on Win32. Does scrolling with touch gestures work for you in other types of scrollable views, such as the sidebar, or the workspace files list?

katmannthree 7y ago
It seems to be an issue with Qt, I just checked a bunch of the example applications and none of them allow touch-based scrolling. There's also this, an open 5 year old bug report. https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40461 https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-40461
- tumult 7y ago
  OK. I will see if I can find a way to emulate a touch device like this one on Windows for testing. I can pre-empt Qt's input system for these types of events and handle them manually in Ripcord's own application code.
  - TeMPOraL 7y ago
    Seconding, please do. I'm a paying Ripcord user working on a Dell 2-in-1 (essentially a Surface clone with a better price tag), and I miss proper touch (and pen) handling too - to the point that I started looking into fixing this on my own with AutoHotkey (I'm thinking of an always-on-top semi-transparent area I could touch / pen over, which would translate this into appropriate mouse events to send to Ripcord to make it scroll). But it would be vastly better if I didn't need to do this :). Oh, and since I have you here: would it be possible for you to look into the group DM handling? We run plenty of group DMs at work, and I have two problems with them: one, they tend to randomly disappear from the sidebar, and two, there seems to be no way to start a group DM from Ripcord. Also, again, thank you for your hard work.
    - tumult 7y ago
      The next update will partially address the group DM thing.
      - TeMPOraL 7y ago
        Thank you!