[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 85677] Dragging on a Windows touchscreen highlights instead of scrolling

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85677

--- Comment #21 from trowelandmattock at yahoo.co.uk ---
(In reply to trowelandmattock from comment #20)
> (sorry about the rouge horizontal scroll bar up there :O)





SOME VIABLE WORKAROUND NOTES FOR USERS OF SMALL TOUCH SCREEN FORMS:

1) - use virtual touch pad, place in corner of screen so buttons are hidden but
just enough visible for 2-finger scroll-gesture 
[a bit of a fiddle for people who dont use touch screens often, or have more
limited finger mobility/sensitivity]



2) - use 'finger-mouse' or hand-held roller-ball style thumb-controller with
scroll-wheel. Quite functional for outdoors and situations where touch screen
is not wanting to be touched ... but requires additional external device.


3)BEST SOLUTION = 
Use the 'jump-to' action of a text/control box when selected to focus that item
in center screen : e.g. place long-thin dummy text-boxes alongside real form
boxes and have them run as a thin chain down the screen at appropriate sizes>
when a dummy box is tapped on that section of the page is focused mid-screen
!!!

This method seems to work very well   :) !!!  - but users may need to be
instructed as to functionality (ie  the control is now neither an easily
recognizable scroll-bar nor directly intuitive touch-control.

Hopefully this may be of use to somebody also exploring interesting
possibilities of linux+libre in data-logging for cultural heritage/field-work,
but also suggests another possible developer solution - ie a new function for
"push_button_control" = "jump_to_section" ....


THANK YOU LIBREOFFICE - I LOVE YOU :) !!!

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