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[Web] Fix view relative coordinates of trackpad pan events - #4531
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`WheelEventManager` synthesizes a moving pointer from a stationary cursor by accumulating wheel deltas, but only the page coordinates used the accumulator. The view relative ones subtracted a single event's delta, so they moved opposite to the page ones and never advanced across a gesture.
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WalkthroughWheel event mapping now calculates offsets from wheel-adjusted pointer coordinates, effective view bounds, and view scale. Pan gesture tests cover origin, offset, child, and scaled views. ChangesWheel coordinate mapping
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Fixes web trackpad pan coordinates so relative x/y advance consistently with absolute coordinates.
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- Applies accumulated wheel deltas to
offsetXandoffsetY. - Adds regression coverage for trackpad coordinate consistency.
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WheelEventManager.ts |
Corrects accumulated relative wheel coordinates. |
PanGestureHandler.test.ts |
Adds trackpad coordinate regression tests. |
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Hi @giaBaoJS! Thank you for submitting this PR!
I've also checked one other example and I think we can do even better:
protected mapEvent(event: WheelEvent): AdaptedEvent {
const rect = getEffectiveBoundingRect(this.view);
const { scaleX, scaleY } = calculateViewScale(this.view);
const x = event.clientX + this.wheelDelta.x;
const y = event.clientY + this.wheelDelta.y;
return {
x,
y,
offsetX: (x - rect.left) / scaleX,
offsetY: (y - rect.top) / scaleY,
...could you check if that works in your case? If so, I'd prefer to apply it instead 😅
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Thanks, that's a nicer fix! It works, so I switched to it. It also covers two cases my version still got wrong: a wheel over a child element ( |
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- Around line 42-43: Update the offset calculations in WheelEventManager to use
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Use the opposite rectangle edge for a negative scale.
If a view uses scaleX(-1), its local x-origin is at rect.right. The current calculation subtracts rect.left, so a wheel event over the view produces an incorrect offsetX. Use rect.right when scaleX is negative. Apply the same rule to rect.bottom and negative scaleY.
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Update the offset calculations in WheelEventManager to use rect.right for x when
scaleX is negative and rect.bottom for y when scaleY is negative; retain
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This should be updated also in other files and probably should be treated as a follow-up
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@m-bert Thanks for the guidance. Negative-scale coordinate handling should be consistent across the affected web event managers, rather than changed only in WheelEventManager.ts. A follow-up is appropriate.
Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for the cross-file update and regression tests?
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## Description Follow-up to #4531. On web the relative `x`/`y` of an event were computed as `(clientX - rect.left) / scaleX`, which only holds for a positive, axis-aligned scale on the view itself. A mirrored view (`scaleX: -1`) reported negative coordinates, a rotated one divided by zero, and transforms on ancestors (a zoomed container) were ignored entirely. Native reports coordinates in the view's own space through the whole hierarchy, so web disagreed with it in all of those cases. This replaces `calculateViewScale` with `viewportToLocal`, which inverts the linear part of the view's transform composed with its ancestors' around the center of the bounding rect. The center of the rect is where the view's own center lands under any affine transform, so no transform-origin or layout position is needed. The untransformed size comes from `offsetWidth`/`offsetHeight`, or is solved back from the bounds for SVG elements which have neither. All four places that mapped coordinates now share it: `PointerEventManager`, `WheelEventManager`, the hover payload of `GestureHandlerButton.web` and `GestureHandlerWebDelegate.absoluteToLocal` (which had its own `DOMMatrix` version for the pinch focal point and rotation anchor). The helper also steps into the `display: contents` wrapper the v3 detectors attach to, so v3 gets the transform of the child the same way the delegate already did. Reported coordinates change for views with a transformed ancestor, which previously received visual pixels. Perspective is not handled. ### Comparison | Before | After | |---------|--------| | https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c66772e4-8760-47c2-98c5-36dd6c9ce8de | https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9d8916a3-3970-4114-a79a-2fcbf3ce2729 | ## Test plan - `yarn test src/web` in the package, new `utils.test.ts` covers scale, mirror, 90/180 degree rotation, the `scale` property, `matrix3d`, SVG, nested and rotated ancestors and the contents wrapper. - Test screen with a box per code path (pointer pan, trackpad pan, hover gesture, Touchable hover, pinch focal, rotation anchor, v2 pan, SVG pan), each transformed or inside a transformed parent, with a dot placed at the reported `x`/`y`. The dot sits under the pointer in every box on web, as it does on native. <details> <summary>Tested on the following code:</summary> ```tsx import React from 'react'; import type { ViewStyle } from 'react-native'; import { ScrollView, StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native'; import { Gesture, GestureDetector, Touchable, useHoverGesture, usePanGesture, usePinchGesture, useRotationGesture, } from 'react-native-gesture-handler'; import Animated, { useAnimatedStyle, useSharedValue, } from 'react-native-reanimated'; import Svg, { Rect } from 'react-native-svg'; // Every box is transformed (or sits inside a transformed parent) and the red // dot is placed at the coordinates the gesture reports, that is in the box's // own coordinate space. When the coordinates are mapped correctly the dot sits // under the pointer in every box, on every platform. Each section exercises a // different code path of the web coordinate mapping. const DOT = 16; const MIRROR: ViewStyle['transform'] = [{ scaleX: -1 }]; function useDot() { const x = useSharedValue(-DOT); const y = useSharedValue(-DOT); const style = useAnimatedStyle(() => ({ transform: [ { translateX: x.value - DOT / 2 }, { translateY: y.value - DOT / 2 }, ], })); return { x, y, style }; } type BoxProps = { ref?: React.Ref<React.ComponentRef<typeof View>>; label: string; note?: string; transform?: ViewStyle['transform']; dotStyle: ReturnType<typeof useDot>['style']; children?: React.ReactNode; }; function Box({ ref, label, note, transform, dotStyle, children }: BoxProps) { return ( <View ref={ref} style={[styles.box, { transform }]}> <Text style={styles.label}>{label}</Text> {note && <Text style={styles.note}>{note}</Text>} {children} <Animated.View style={[styles.dot, dotStyle]} /> </View> ); } function Section({ title, children, }: { title: string; children: React.ReactNode; }) { return ( <View style={styles.section}> <Text style={styles.title}>{title}</Text> <View style={styles.row}>{children}</View> </View> ); } // Pointer path: PointerEventManager. const PAN_BOXES: { label: string; transform?: ViewStyle['transform']; parentTransform?: ViewStyle['transform']; }[] = [ { label: 'plain' }, { label: 'scale 1.5', transform: [{ scale: 1.5 }] }, { label: 'scaleX -1', transform: MIRROR }, { label: 'rotate 90', transform: [{ rotate: '90deg' }] }, { label: 'rotate 180', transform: [{ rotate: '180deg' }] }, { label: 'rotate 30', transform: [{ rotate: '30deg' }] }, { label: 'parent scale 1.5', parentTransform: [{ scale: 1.5 }] }, { label: 'parent rotate 45, scaleX -1', transform: MIRROR, parentTransform: [{ rotate: '45deg' }], }, ]; function PanProbe({ label, transform, parentTransform, }: (typeof PAN_BOXES)[number]) { const dot = useDot(); const pan = usePanGesture({ minDistance: 0, onBegin: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, onUpdate: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, }); return ( <View style={{ transform: parentTransform }}> <GestureDetector gesture={pan}> <Box label={label} transform={transform} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> </View> ); } // Wheel path: WheelEventManager. The pointer does not move, the manager // accumulates the scroll deltas from where the cursor sits. function TrackpadProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const pan = usePanGesture({ enableTrackpadTwoFingerGesture: true, onBegin: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, onUpdate: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, }); return ( <GestureDetector gesture={pan}> <Box label="trackpad pan, scaleX -1" note="two-finger swipe, the dot starts under the cursor and follows the swipe" transform={MIRROR} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> ); } // Pointer path for hover events. function HoverProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const hover = useHoverGesture({ onBegin: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, onUpdate: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }, }); return ( <GestureDetector gesture={hover}> <Box label="hover, scaleX -1" note="mouse, no press" transform={MIRROR} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> ); } // Button path: GestureHandlerButton.web hover payload. function TouchableHoverProbe() { const dot = useDot(); return ( <Touchable style={[styles.box, { transform: MIRROR }]} onHoverIn={(event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }}> <Text style={styles.label}>Touchable hover, scaleX -1</Text> <Text style={styles.note}> mouse, the dot marks where the cursor entered the box </Text> <Animated.View style={[styles.dot, dot.style]} /> </Touchable> ); } // Delegate path: absoluteToLocal for the Pinch focal point and the Rotation // anchor. function PinchProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const pinch = usePinchGesture({ onUpdate: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.focalX; dot.y.value = event.focalY; }, }); return ( <GestureDetector gesture={pinch}> <Box label="pinch focal, scaleX -1" note="two fingers, the dot sits between them" transform={MIRROR} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> ); } function RotationProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const rotation = useRotationGesture({ onUpdate: (event) => { dot.x.value = event.anchorX; dot.y.value = event.anchorY; }, }); return ( <GestureDetector gesture={rotation}> <Box label="rotation anchor, rotate 90" note="two fingers, the dot sits between them" transform={[{ rotate: '90deg' }]} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> ); } // Legacy API: the handler attaches to the box element itself, not to a // wrapper. function LegacyPanProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const pan = Gesture.Pan() .minDistance(0) .onBegin((event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }) .onUpdate((event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }); return ( <GestureDetector gesture={pan}> <Box label="v2 pan, scaleX -1" transform={MIRROR} dotStyle={dot.style} /> </GestureDetector> ); } // SVG elements have no offset size, the mapping recovers it from the bounds. // The mirror sits on the wrapper so the svg itself stays untransformed. function SvgProbe() { const dot = useDot(); const pan = Gesture.Pan() .minDistance(0) .onBegin((event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }) .onUpdate((event) => { dot.x.value = event.x; dot.y.value = event.y; }); return ( <View style={[styles.box, { transform: MIRROR }]}> <GestureDetector gesture={pan}> <Svg width={BOX} height={BOX}> <Rect x="0" y="0" width={BOX} height={BOX} fill="#001a72" /> <Rect x="0" y="0" width={BOX / 2} height={BOX / 2} fill="#1a3a9a" /> </Svg> </GestureDetector> <Text style={[styles.label, styles.overlay]}> svg pan, parent scaleX -1 </Text> <Animated.View style={[styles.dot, dot.style]} /> </View> ); } export default function EmptyExample() { return ( <ScrollView contentContainerStyle={styles.container}> <Section title="Pan, pointer or touch"> {PAN_BOXES.map((box) => ( <PanProbe key={box.label} {...box} /> ))} </Section> <Section title="Other paths"> <TrackpadProbe /> <HoverProbe /> <TouchableHoverProbe /> <PinchProbe /> <RotationProbe /> <LegacyPanProbe /> <SvgProbe /> </Section> </ScrollView> ); } const BOX = 120; const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { padding: 16, }, section: { marginBottom: 24, }, title: { fontSize: 18, fontWeight: '600', marginBottom: 8, }, row: { flexDirection: 'row', flexWrap: 'wrap', justifyContent: 'center', }, box: { width: BOX, height: BOX, margin: 40, backgroundColor: '#001a72', }, overlay: { position: 'absolute', left: 0, top: 0, }, label: { color: 'white', margin: 8, }, note: { color: '#c9d1ff', fontSize: 10, marginHorizontal: 8, }, dot: { position: 'absolute', left: 0, top: 0, width: DOT, height: DOT, borderRadius: DOT / 2, backgroundColor: '#ff6259', }, }); ``` </details>
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WheelEventManagersynthesizes a moving pointer out of a stationary cursor by accumulating wheel deltas, but only the page coordinates use the accumulator:Repro: a Pan with
enableTrackpadTwoFingerGestureon web, three trackpad frames ofdeltaY: 10fromclientY: 0,offsetY: 0.absoluteYreads 10, 20, 30 whileyreads -10, -10, -10.ypoints the wrong way and never advances for the whole gesture.translationY,velocityYandabsoluteYare fine, they come off the page coordinates.x/yandabsoluteX/absoluteYare the same point in two spaces, so they can only differ by the view's page offset. Every other producer keeps that invariant:PointerEventManager.ts:230derivesoffsetXfrom the sameclientXit writes tox,KeyboardEventManager.ts:120-129writes the view centre into both,ScrollEventManager.ts:26-29writes one value twice, andGestureHandlerButton.web.tsx:51-53computesxfromabsoluteX.WheelEventManager.ts:35-36is the only place where the two move apart.The fix, as suggested in review, derives the view relative position from the accumulated page position the same way
PointerEventManagerdoes:(x - rect.left) / scaleX, withgetEffectiveBoundingRectandcalculateViewScaleon the handler's view. This also stops relying onevent.offsetX, which is relative toevent.targetrather than to the handler's view, and is in the target's untransformed space. With the v3 detector the view is thedisplay: contentswrapper, so the target is always one of its descendants. The cost is onegetBoundingClientRectper wheel event, the same readPointerEventManagerdoes per pointer move.onWheelis overridden only byPanGestureHandler, and the wheeloffsetX/offsetYreaches exactly one consumer,PointerTracker.relativeCoords->GestureHandler.transformNativeEvent().Test plan
yarn workspace react-native-gesture-handler test- 182 passed, was 178. Merged onto currentmainit is 189, was 185.The
PanGestureHandler trackpad coordinatescases drive the realWheelEventManageroff a fake view with a mockedgetBoundingClientRectand computed style, and assertx/yagainstabsoluteX/absoluteYfor:offsetX/offsetYare relative to the child,On main all four fail, the first one reports
x: -5, y: -10againstabsoluteX: 15, absoluteY: 30. The previous revision of this PR (event.offsetXplus the accumulated delta) passed the first two but reportedx: 25, y: 40instead of55, 70for the child andx: 20, y: 40instead of12.5, 25for the scaled view.ts-check,lint-jsandcircular-dependency-checkare clean.