WebView - Fake TouchScreen [HELP]

Question

I'm working on an AIR app for an HP Touchscreen... we have a section that loads a webview.

The problem is that an HP Touchscreen doesnt use true touch .. its infared touch. Which basically is the same as a mouse except it uses infared to determine where your finger is.

The problem this poses is that my webviews contain a scrollbar and you cannot scroll with your finger. Very annoying!

Is there any way to use a stage listener or something and scroll the webview window when you user drags up or down ?

sinious · Answer

The webview is a standard webpage. At that point you're going to need to use some JavaScript but it won't be easy if you have anything on the page the user can click to interact with. If not then much the same way with ActionScript, you'd add an event listener for mouse down in javascript, note the mouses Y position and as the user drags up or down you'd scroll the page (with javascript) that amount.

Most of the JavaScript methods to do so are very similar to ActionScript. Or you can look into the http://www.jquery.com jquery plugin to help you do some of this in a sexy and smooth way with their animation capabilities.

For it to work either way you'd need to know if mouse clicks are even entering the HTML page. Add a mouse click to the body and just toss up an alert("it works!"); just to make sure for some reason it's not receiving events.

Here's tons of examples of page scrolling with javascript:

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enUS441US441&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=scroll+page+with+javascript

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