Make videos scrollable - codenameone

Question

I have a scrollabillity issue in a Form, layered out by BoxLayout.y().
The form contains many Tabs (with fixed size), each tab of the Tabs can contain an image or a video (the video is inside a BorderLayout to scale it at the tab size).
If an image is shown, the scrolling up and down works correctly.
If a video is shown, the y scrolling is not possibile, I can only swipe to change the tab.
I suppose that the cause of this issue is that videos are native component (I used the Codename One API to show the videos).
How can I solve or workaround this issue? This is crucial for the app design. Thanks for the tips.

Answer 1

The video.setEnabled(false) workaround (Make videos scrollable) doesn't work.
I workaround in a different way, inserting the MediaPlayer container in a LayeredLayout container, and then placing a Button over the MediaPlayer. A generic empty Label doesn't work, but an empty Button works. Of course I have to override calcPreferredSize to make the MediaPlayer and the Button of the same size (or use a different approach to make them of the same size).
This allows scrolling, but prevents the tapping of the play and pause Buttons (that are over the video). I solved also this issue.
In short, this is my solution, tested on Simulator, Android and iOS (in the following code, note that videoBtnsCnt is a Container over the video, in which I inserted play and pause Buttons):
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer(video) {
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(size, size);
}
};
Container mediaPlayerCnt = new Container(new LayeredLayout(), "NoMarginNoPadding") {
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(size, size);
}
};
mediaPlayerCnt.add(mediaPlayer);
Button allowScrollingLabel = new Button() {
#Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(size, size);
}
};
allowScrollingLabel.setUIID("NoMarginNoPadding");
allowScrollingLabel.addActionListener(l -> {
Component responder = videoBtnsCnt.getResponderAt(l.getX(), l.getY());
if (responder instanceof Button) {
// it can be a play button or a pause button
((Button) responder).pressed();
((Button) responder).released();
}
});
mediaPlayerCnt.add(allowScrollingLabel);