Friday, July 12, 2013

Scrolling draw2d ScrollPane using mouse wheel

Today I was working on a project where there was a need to scroll draw2d ScrollPane using only mouse wheel. Why? Because in this particular project there is a tree drawn using draw2d Figures and to the left of it a Nebula Grid. I won't go in details of why that is, but both trees needed to be scrolled using Grid's scroll bar. However, since draw2d tree had no scroll bar visible (by design), I still wanted to give user ability to scroll the tree using mouse wheel since the wheel is pretty much standard on all modern mice. There is no mouse wheel listener for ScrollPane or Viewport, but I found a nice little helper interface MouseWheelHelper. This interface has just one method:
void handleMouseWheelScrolled(Event event);
From there it was just a matter of finding the right variable that stores scroll value:
public class MyEditPart extends TreeEditPart implements MouseWheelHelper{
 private static final int SCROLL_OFFSET = 10;
 ...
        ...
 @Override
 // subtracting or adding values below controls direction of the scrolling
 public void handleMouseWheelScrolled(Event event) {
  pane.scrollVerticalTo(pane.getViewport().getVerticalRangeModel().getValue() - (event.count * SCROLL_OFFSET));
 }
}
That's it. Now when user clicks into the tree and uses scroll wheel the tree with scroll. What's neat is that by changing value of SCROLL_OFFSET you can speed up or slow down the scrolling. Of course this would not work for draw2d only case, because my ScrollPane was inside an EditPart that was already part of gef stack and that's why I could take advantage of MouseWheelHelper interface.

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