On Mon, 18 May 2026 20:15:40 GMT, Martin Fox <[email protected]> wrote:

> On macOS when the user swipes on a trackpad or Magic Mouse JavaFX sees this 
> as a scroll gesture. The scene tries to ensure that all the scroll events 
> generated by the gesture are fired at the same target to ensure that the 
> gesture's scroll events don't get split between two ScrollPanes. For example, 
> while a ScrollPane is being scrolled a child ScrollPane might shift until 
> it's beneath the mouse pointer. Scroll events should not fire at the child 
> but remain with the parent.
> 
> During the gesture the scene should target the node that's handling the 
> scrolling (like a ScrollPane) but there's no good way to determine that. 
> Instead it targets a descendant node, whatever was under the mouse pointer 
> when the gesture started. This node is likely to shift during the scroll and 
> if scrolls out of view it might get disconnected from the scene graph. At 
> that point events fired at it will go nowhere and the gesture will abruptly 
> stop.
> 
> This PR detects when the gesture target is removed from the scene graph and 
> attempts to find a new target.
> 
> This bug does not reproduce on Windows since that platform doesn't generate a 
> SCROLL_STARTED event so the Scene never selects a gesture target. All scroll 
> events are delivered to whatever node is under the mouse pointer which will 
> change as the scroll progresses.
> 
> This PR might fix [JDK-8088460](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8088460) 
> which shows up in Ensemble if anyone wants to test that.
> 
> Submitting fix for sanity checking and manual testing. Will investigate 
> creating an automated test for this.
> 
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I tested this PR with the same small ListView reproducer that I used when 
discussing the issue in #2051.

Environment:
- MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon
- macOS 26.5
- Trackpad scrolling
- PR commit tested: `205de3d292`
- JavaFX runtime shown by the local build: `27-internal+0-2026-05-28-083229`

With the current master / JavaFX 25 behavior, the ListView scroll gesture would 
stop responding during a continuous slow trackpad scroll. With this PR applied, 
I can no longer reproduce that problem in the same demo; the ListView continues 
scrolling normally.

One note about my local build: my installed Xcode does not provide `metallib`, 
so I built a local ES2-only SDK and ran the demo with `-Dprism.order=es2`. This 
still exercises the `Scene` gesture retargeting change, but it is not a 
Metal-pipeline test.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2171#issuecomment-4562422747

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