Well, I’m with you on this one. I would consider it a bug as well. It is an age old industry practice to announce features that are planned to be taken out as “deprecated” and then still support them for a while and then eventually drop them. CL dropped many features in the past without any notice. I was happy to see they didn’t do it with Storyboard --> Composer this time. A change for the better.
I’m seeing a user maintained branch of the widgets in the near future 
Atanas is already there with his mods. We just have to consolidate our efforts and hope that the official branch gets a bit more frequent updates on github so we can use what corona has fixed or improved aswell.
Perhaps anyone who contributes useful code to this user-maintained branch of the widgets library should get a free Corona subscription or shares of Corona Labs Inc.? 
I’m generally in favor of open source development, but it seems odd to devote my time and copyrighted code to propping up the obvious fundamentals – properly scrolling text and graphics! – of a proprietary development environment…
Just realized how much I miss this from G1.0. It would be great to have this added back in. Super useful to pause timers and transitions when you start scrolling and then resume once the scroll animation is complete.
You know you can make a pull request from github, add your changes and submit them back for inclusion in the core library. If it’s something practical and makes sense, we can include it in the main library. That’s part of what making the library open source is about.
Rob
Rob, we tried that. Atanas and I submitted a number of smaller mods to test the waters and none of them are accepted so far. Not sure why. Can you kindly check to see if there is a reason for this so we know and don’t waste our energy anymore? Thanks
So any update on this?
Naveen: No update that I’m aware of. Rob, what say you? Can you folks restore this deleted functionality in a daily build sometime this month?
Also I just noticed that the Scrollview in the open-source widget library on Github (https://github.com/coronalabs/framework-widget) has actually not been updated since October 29.
If those of us who need the deleted functionality use the October version, we miss out on other changes and bug fixes to the Scrollview widget since then, including the scrollView:setIsLocked() method added on December 20, the November 22 changes that fix transitions, the November 20 changes that fix event.phase, the November 13 addition of the scrollBarAutoHide property, etc.
Rob?
I thought the scrollView in GitHub along with all else was synched to Corona build # 2114 which is about 6 weeks old now. See https://github.com/coronalabs/framework-widget/tree/master/widgetLibrary
@corona273, if you need it sooner than later, your best bet is to pick up the Widget Library from github and look to add that feature back in. But at the risk of bringing the wrath of the users down upon me…
Just keep in mind, that as useful as Kerem’s spreadsheet is, it doesn’t generate engineering tasks. We would need a bug report or feature request in our tracking systems before the work would even be considered.
I would go ahead and file a bug report on it, but given the current workload, it might be faster with the open source.
Rob
Any news on bringing back this feature which was taken out with no explanation what so ever?
Any news on bringing back this feature which was taken out with no explanation what so ever?