How can I disable scroll in QWebView?

[thebeast44]

Hi all,

I have a QWebView with contents stretching horizontally in numerous columns
and I want to show those columns page by page like a book.

What I've done so far is to override most key events and mouse events to trigger
a custom function to scroll to specific x position.

I've disabled most scenarios of scrolling except for 'click and drag across the border of webview'.

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virtual bool event(QEvent *event)
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doesn't seem to catch QEvent::Scroll so I went ahead and created an event filter

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bool FilterObject::eventFilter(QObject *object, QEvent *event) {
if (event->type() == QEvent::Scroll) {
qDebug() << "Scroll";
object->dumpObjectInfo();
return true;
}
return false;
}
@

and installed it to:

1. QWebView
2. QWebPage
3. QWebPage->view()
4. QWebPage->mainFrame()

but none of the above seemed to react to the filter.

I even implemented window.onscroll in JS but it happens after the scroll has already happened,
resulting in movement sideways.

Any idea on how I can disable scroll?

• I need to be able to select text displayed in the view,
  so I cannot set '-webkit-user-select: none;'

[thebeast44]

I came up with temporary solution

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void ViewerClass::mouseMoveEvent(QMouseEvent *event) {
QPoint pos = event->pos();
int width = this->contentsRect().width();
if (pos.x() > 20 && pos.x() < width - 20) {
QWebView::mouseMoveEvent(event);
}
}
@

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.