Two dimensional scrolling… a suggestion that needs

Question

While spending a copious amount of time googling for a relatively simple solution to my problem I found this as a solution for two-dimensional scrolling. I have a a horizontalscrollview nested in a scrollview. I fiddled with this in a few ways and was unsuccessful in making anything functional. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make a concept like this work?

Scrollview scrollY = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scrollY);
LinearLayout scrollYChild = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.scrollYChild);

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    scrollYChild.dispatchTouchEvent(event);
    scrollY.onTouchEvent(event);
    return true;
}

I have also found this: http://blog.gorges.us/2010/06/android-two-dimensional-scrollview/ but I'm don't understand at all how to implement such a long piece of code properly.

It doesn't make much sense to me that two-dimensional scrolling is inherent in a webview but nonexistent elsewhere... Any and all help is appreciated.

Edit: How exactly does this work when zoomed in on an image in the gallery. Surely there has to be a way to implement that same functionality here.

Answer 1

Im not sure about the blog you have posted, this was my solution:

/**
 * This class disables Y-motion on touch event.
 * It should only be used as parent class of HorizontalScrollView
 */
public class ParentScrollView extends ScrollView {
    private GestureDetector mGestureDetector;
    View.OnTouchListener mGestureListener;

    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public ParentScrollView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(new YScrollDetector());
        setFadingEdgeLength(0);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        if( mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(ev)&super.onInterceptTouchEvent(ev)){
            return true;
        }else{

            return false;
        }
    }

    // Return false if we're scrolling in the x direction  
    class YScrollDetector extends SimpleOnGestureListener {
        @Override
        public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent e1, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
            if(Math.abs(distanceY) > Math.abs(distanceX)) {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    }
}

XML:

    <com.example.Views.ParentScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >

        <HorizontalScrollView
            android:id="@+id/tlDBtable"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" >


        </HorizontalScrollView>
    </com.example.Views.ParentScrollView>

Basically the parent scrollview which only scrolls veritcal will be disabled because you will use a new custom class. Then you put a HScrollview within the scroll view. The Parentscroll view will pass the touch even if its not vertical to the horiszontalscroll view which makes it 2D scrolling effect.