Help With Scrolling

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have an app that displays a number of buttons, that when tapped open a native display message. I want to add a few more buttons on the app, and allow the user to scroll down and be able to click the buttons.

As I understand, you can only insert images or text to scroll. Am i mistaking?

So as of now I have a big block of code, a title, buttons, and the native messages that pop up when clicked. However, when I ad the scrolling code, I know how to put text or an image inside, but I cannot put this entire code block inside? [import]uid: 59735 topic_id: 10040 reply_id: 310040[/import]

#2

@iscottonline,
As far as the concept goes,

Scroll is nothing but a container that has a huge bounding box, but is displayed in a viewport on the screen. This can therefore hold any type of object, not just images or text.

However to give you a pointer, think of the scroll view as two groups, one inside of the other. The inner one is the large scroll that contains your buttons, the outer one is the size of the screen. Now move the inner group to position giving you the illusion of scrolling

 +------+ -100
 | |
 | |
 +--------+ 0
 |: :|
 |: :|
 |: :|
 |: :|
 |: :|
 |: :|
 +--------+ Height
 | |
 | |
 +------+

if this makes any sense to you

cheers,

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