[Feature Request] line scrolling

[gvb1234]

I would really like to be able to scroll up/down a few lines, for instance using a tap on the top/bottom part of the screen.

It used to be possible to scroll by lines a while back moving a finger across the "center" physical button on HTC's desire (the button had a little wheel or something). I can't see how to do that now...

[liquiddandruff]

I introduced FBReader to a few friends and they also remarked at the lack of line scrolling. They want the option to freely scroll up/down, like a webpage. It would definitely be something nice to have!

[tamo]

Agreed. Currently I long-tap the bottom line when I want a few more lines. (see #293) As the text-selection feature allows to scroll line-wise, FBReaderJ already has the potential to line-scroll, I guess.

But a free scroll should be a different challenge. Maybe it's easy (with one large page internally), maybe not. If the internal design doesn't allow the literally-free (pixel-wise) scroll, a pseudo free scroll would be easier, i.e. to scroll pixel-wise while your finger is on the screen, but works line-wise when it is off.

[aproposnix]

Pageturner (https://github.com/nightwhistler/pageturner), another opensource reader already has this feature (however, the app is way to slow and buggy for me). For those of old enough to remember Palm Pilots, plucker also had continuous scrolling.

In Fbreader, as far as I can tell, the only option for scrolling is to use the page flicking.

It would be nice to see continuous scrolling in fbreader.

[Fuco1]

+1 on this. For someone who has attention problems focusing on the entire page is very difficult. It is very convenient to scroll off the text already read to keep the next line in focus.

[liquiddandruff]

@Fuco1 just an fyi, but by the looks of it, it seems @geometer has stopped updating the open source version of FBReader :'(

[sebbu2]

the non-opensource version doesn't seem to have that feature either