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Is there a built in option to auto-scroll the container of a draggable element when the draggable is moved beyond the container?

 

I am currently hooking up to the onDrag event and doing thing based on Y pointer. I kinda get the result I want. But still curious if there was a default option provided or anyone else has done it better.

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Hi and welcome to the GreenSock forums.

 

Absolutely, Draggable creates a scroll proxy element that allows the overscrolling feature in both, vertical and horizontal scroll.

 

Check the final example of the following link and you can change the Draggable instance to scrollTop or scrollLeft to see it in action. Also you can test it with and without the Throw Props Plugin that gives you a cool kinetic motion based on the throw speed:

 

http://www.greensock.com/draggable/

 

Let us know if this is what you're after, if not please check this post in order to create a reduced sample in codepen:

 

http://forums.greensock.com/topic/9002-read-this-first-how-to-create-a-codepen-demo/

 

Rodrigo.

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I understood the question a bit differently - I think he was asking if, when dragging an element's x/y (NOT scrolling), and he reaches the edge of a scrollable container, if it'd automatically scroll for him. The answer is "no". Sorry, there is no such feature in Draggable. It'd be a bit tricky because it'd have to be able to sense any and all nested containers and try to figure out which one should scroll if there are more than one. 

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I understood the question a bit differently - I think he was asking if, when dragging an element's x/y (NOT scrolling), and he reaches the edge of a scrollable container, if it'd automatically scroll for him. The answer is "no". Sorry, there is no such feature in Draggable. It'd be a bit tricky because it'd have to be able to sense any and all nested containers and try to figure out which one should scroll if there are more than one. 

Hi,

 

Yes. You understood me correctly. Thanks for the reply. I wills stick to my onDrag handler then.

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I understood the question a bit differently - I think he was asking if, when dragging an element's x/y (NOT scrolling), and he reaches the edge of a scrollable container, if it'd automatically scroll for him. The answer is "no". Sorry, there is no such feature in Draggable. It'd be a bit tricky because it'd have to be able to sense any and all nested containers and try to figure out which one should scroll if there are more than one. 

I have exactly the same question. I need to drag some small elements inside a horizontally scrollable container, and I want that container to scroll automatically when element or mouse pointer is somewhere near left or right bound.

Here's codepen: 

See the Pen EaWjZG by ulmix (@ulmix) on CodePen

Algo: onDrag:

1) check where the mouse pointer is currently:

1a: if near bounds, go to 2

1b: if not, clearInterval(scrolling)

2) check if we're scrolling already. If not, then start setInterval, where I change scrollLeft of container, and trying to change draggable element position and update() it.

onDragEnd: stop scrolling if it is in process.

Unfortunately, update() behaves VERY strange here: element jumps all over the place. Why? I can't understand.

 

And considering your "It'd be a bit tricky because it'd have to be able to sense any and all nested containers" - that's not right. Solution is simple: check only parent container by default, and give us option to set custom element as "scroll container".

So please, GSAP developers, hear me: the autoscroll option for your Draggable plugin is very desirable! :)

 

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UPDATE, additional questions.

tried to implement more simple autoscroll, based on mousemove instead of setInterval - just like jQuery UI Draggable works. Here's what I've got:

1. 

See the Pen KwWpbB by ulmix (@ulmix) on CodePen

- implementation for XY drag. Just works.

2. 

See the Pen NPpqoY by ulmix (@ulmix) on CodePen

- implementation for X drag (" type: 'x' " added) - strange behaviour, drag element jumps far forward when trying to scroll

3. 

See the Pen pveJYx by ulmix (@ulmix) on CodePen

- implementation for X drag (" lockAxis: true " added) - works normally.

So, the question is: why option 2 - with type: 'x', but without lockAxis: true - is not working properly?

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Sorry about the tardy response, ulmix - it looked like this was a question about a non-supported feature (and I guess technically it was), but I think I discovered what was causing the problem in your example and it was in the update() method; it'd only happen if you disallowed "y" movement. It should be fixed in the next release. You can test a preview at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/16327/Draggable-latest-beta.js. Does that help?

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Now we have Great solution for that in new GSAP ( version 1.16.0 ) Draggable plugin :

 

pls check this out : 

See the Pen YPvdYv by GreenSock (@GreenSock) on CodePen


 

 

GSAP ( version 1.16.0 ) :

 

Draggable has a new " autoScroll " special property that you can set to a number to enable auto-scrolling when the user drags near the edge of a scrollable container. For example , Draggable.create(element, {autoScroll:1});  will auto-scroll at the default speed, whereas autoScroll:2 would scroll twice as fast≤ etc.

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