openwebrx/htdocs/lib/wheelDelta.js
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/*
* Normalize scroll wheel events.
*
* It seems like there's no consent as to how mouse wheel events are presented in the javascript API. The standard
* states that a MouseEvent has a deltaY property that contains the scroll distances, together with a deltaMode
* property that state the "unit" that deltaY has been measured in. The deltaMode can be either pixels, lines or
* pages. The latter is seldomly used in practise.
*
* The troublesome part is that there is no standard on how to correlate the two at this point.
*
* The basic idea is that one tick of a mouse wheel results in a total return value of +/- 1 from this method.
* It's important to keep in mind that one tick of a wheel may result in multiple events in the browser. The aim
* of this method is to scale the sum of deltaY over
*/
function wheelDelta(evt) {
if ('deltaMode' in evt && evt.deltaMode === WheelEvent.DOM_DELTA_PIXEL) {
// chrome and webkit-based browsers seem to correlate one tick of the wheel to 120 pixels.
return evt.deltaY / 120;
}
// firefox seems to scroll at an interval of 6 lines per wheel tick
return evt.deltaY / 6;
}