[Qt-interest] touch screen friendly qtlistbox scrollbar

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

Bastiaan Naber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a touch screen friendly input application:
>
> http://bastiaannaber.com/tmp/touchscreen.png
>
> On the screen I display a qtlistbox (sub classed).  Since this application is 
> running on a touch screen I need the widgets to be quite large. So I did:
>
> setGlobalStrut(QSize(50, 50));
>
> in my QApplication. However the scrollbar of the listbox doesn't want to obey 
> this. It is still way to small. I have tried everything in my power to get 
> this scrollbar to become larger but I haven't succeeded. Does anyone know how 
> to enlarge the width of scrollbar so I it more touch friendly?
>
> What I would like even more is that the listbox wouldn't have a scrollbar but 
> it could be pushed up and down with a press of the finger on the list and 
> than moving up / down (like all the nice touch screen phone interfaces). I 
> have seen a movie of Qt Extended in which this behavior is implemented, is 
> there any way of getting it into the normal Qt as well?
>
> BTW. I'm using Qt 3.3..
>   
Please consider using a more up to date version for new software. Then 
you should look at this:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/11/15/flick-list-or-kinetic-scrolling/

Sean