Bug 173354 – [Mac] Don't use the scrolling tree to handle wheel events when it contains transforms that are not axis-aligned

• Status: ASSIGNED
• Component: Frames

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

Extracted from bug 171667. Handling transforms might be a little bit complicated, so we can start by falling back to the slow path.

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

Created attachment 312871 [details]
Patch

(In reply to Frédéric Wang (:fredw) from comment #30)
> Created attachment 311503 [details]
> Patch (do not use async scrolling when there are transformed nodes)
> 
> This is an attempt to avoid async scrolling when there are transformed
> nodes, but it does not work.

I debugged this again and my attempt was actually correct... When there is a transform on the scrolling tree, ScrollingTree::shouldHandleWheelEventSynchronously will return true, tryToHandleWheelEvent will return SendToMainThread and EventDispatcher will thus pass the event to the main thread instead of calling ScrollingTree::handleWheelEvent. However, at the end the the following call stack is executed:

ScrollingTree::handleWheelEvent (scrolling thread)
ThreadedScrollingTree::handleWheelEvent (scrolling thread)
ScrollingCoordinatorMac::handleWheelEvent (main thread)
FrameView::wheelEvent (main thread)
EventHandlerMac's EventHandler::platformCompleteWheelEvent (main thread)
EventHandler::handleWheelEvent (main thread)

so the event is still handled by the scrolling thread!

@Simon: I commented the guilty part out in FrameView::wheelEvent, so that ScrollableArea::handleWheelEvent is called instead and things work as I expected, but I wonder what would be the proper way to fix that?

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

Created attachment 355487 [details]
Patch

Rebasing...

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/47656477>

[Simon Fraser (smfr)]

We'll need this at some point (I am not working on this currently).