mouseWheelMove begin & end?

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Is there any way to get begin/end for mouse wheel gestures?

We’re having a hard time coalescing gestures with mouse wheels where isSmooth == true for things like undo/redo. Currently, we just get a ton of mouseWheelMove callbacks for each gesture, which adds a lot of unnecessary points to our undo stack.

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I think that’s not something that exists. You could implement it yourself, but how long should you wait before deciding it’s the end of a gesture?

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yeah, it’s certainly not something that’s possible on all platforms. It may be available on OSX if you’re using a trackpad, but if we added support for that, then I’m not sure how it could emulate the callbacks on other platforms.

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Yeah, that makes sense. It’s definitely available on OS X because that’s how we previously handled mouse wheel support.

Would it be possible to implement begin/end where it’s available and just wrap all mouseWheelMove calls in begin/end calls where it’s not? Folks who don’t care about begin/end could just not override them, but we could significantly improve the Mac trackpad UX if we had it.

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Hmm - adding virtual methods to all the mouse listeners is a really non-trivial task. Will ponder it, but TBH since most platforms won’t support this, and the fallback would (I guess…) involve just a timer so that it sends an end message a couple of hundred ms after the last scroll event, you might as well just implement that yourself in the meantime.

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Gotcha. I think the fallback could be dumber than the timer approach though. You could just literally replace all mouseWheelMove calls with this:

mouseWheelBegin();
mouseWheelMove();
mouseWheelEnd();

For most mice, the above^ is accurate because they really have no concept of a gesture and are meant to be handled as discrete events. Would that make the task any easier?

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No Update anout this topic? it should be very useful to have methods that @goodhertz suggested, for example now I have a clip in a timeline and if I drag this clip while engine is in play glitches are rised, I’d like to unhook engine from timeline gui for the time wheel is moving, but without a method mouseWheelEnd(); I’m not able to recognize the end of wheel moving to hook up engine to gui…

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