I'm trying to find a way to make an Editor scroll when clicking and dragging - this is meant to simulate a touch & drag approach (like on an ipad/iphone). I don't have any clear preference of editor at this point - it can be a standard texteditor or the formattedtexteditor or another editor if someone has a recommendation. I was able to do this with an UltraGrid and it works quite well (apart from the fact that it doesn't scroll smoothly since it "jumps" a row at a time), but haven't had any success with Editors.
Hello GenesisTechnology,
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Sorry for the late reply. It is true that in traditional use of the editor control I can understand the confusion of trying to determine what the user is trying to do (select text, scroll, etc.), but it our case we have a very specific application in mind that narrows these issues. We keep the control in edit mode and don't care about selecting text - we only care about scrolling and (optionally) being able to select a specific point in the text (ie. to relocate the cursor). Using the scrollbar is difficult in a touchscreen environment because the scrollbar can be difficult to easily grab given its narrow width - that's one of the reasons that mobile UI's don't use scroll bars and instead use the whole surface to scroll.
I recognize that this is not a standard feature, but I thought it was worth asking since I was able to produce (close to) the desired functionality on the UltraWinGrid.
Thanks