1052196 - Flash drag events are not implemented on Android

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Plugins, defect)

Description

[Ex-Active-NEET]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.34 Safari/534.24

Steps to reproduce:

On a flash content, which is a game and needs me to swipe or drag, i did it.


Actual results:

A whole page contains the flash element is scrolled. 


Expected results:

The ivents should be notified to Flash player.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

We need information from you such as the URL showcasing this, and providing details such as the device you used, the build you used and steps to reproduce showing the problem.

Comment 2

[Ex-Active-NEET]

For example, a flash content on the following page  
http://kids.kewpie.co.jp/oekaki
The flash is a painting toy for kids. 
We must be able to drag vegetables to put onto a canvas.
On firefox beta 31.0 and older, it is unable.

Comment 3

[Ex-Active-NEET]

http://pencilmadness.com/pencil_madness
This page doesn't work either.
swipping is recongnized not for line a canvas but for page scroll.

Comment 4

[Ex-Active-NEET]

I am using Xperia Z Ultra on which android 4.2.2 is working.
It is one of the highest performance tablets available now.
And these flash contents works correctly on another browser such as Sleipnir.

Comment 5

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

maybe those touch events are either not supported on mobile (maybe hacked for support in 'Sleipnir') or not passed to the flash plugin. I feel like this is generally a well known issue but I forget why. WONTFIX/INVALID?

Comment 6

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

Pretty sure we just haven't implemented this for Flash on Android. At this point it's hard to rationalize doing any more like this, but we'd probably consider taking a patch.

Comment 7

[Ex-Active-NEET]

Aren't touch events unique to mobile devices, instead of click events on PC?

And I don't use hacked Sleipnir. I installed it from Google Play Store, and I downloaded Flash Player,which is the latest for Android, from Adobe official site.

Sleipnir on JB or older and APS blowser on ICS can do this. Is it so different or frivolous problem?

Comment 8

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

(In reply to Ex-Active-NEET from comment #7)
> Aren't touch events unique to mobile devices, instead of click events on PC?
> 
> And I don't use hacked Sleipnir. I installed it from Google Play Store, and
> I downloaded Flash Player,which is the latest for Android, from Adobe
> official site.
> 
> Sleipnir on JB or older and APS blowser on ICS can do this. Is it so
> different or frivolous problem?

Flash on Android is discontinued and has been for a very long time. We are trying to support it as long as it remains feasible, but I don't think we're very interested in doing significant enhancements.

The touch event stuff is indeed specific to mobile devices. We just haven't done the work to hook those events up. I think it's probably pretty rare that the Flash plugin is listening to those anyway.

If anyone comes along and feels like working on it, though, the place to add this would be in nsPluginInstanceOwner::ProcessEvent() here: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/plugins/base/nsPluginInstanceOwner.cpp?from=nsPluginInstanceOwner.cpp&case=true#1843

Comment 9

[Ex-Active-NEET]

thank you.

Although, flash I mentioned　are created for PC　and should require click events.
So Addon to convert touch events into click events may solve this problem?
I know An addon which rejects double-tap event to prevent from zoom page.
 Like it, if addon can control events, click events is generated for some flash or so on?

Comment 10

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

(In reply to Ex-Active-NEET from comment #9)
> thank you.
> 
> Although, flash I mentioned　are created for PC　and should require click
> events.
> So Addon to convert touch events into click events may solve this problem?
> I know An addon which rejects double-tap event to prevent from zoom page.
>  Like it, if addon can control events, click events is generated for some
> flash or so on?

I'm not sure I understood all of this, but we already convert single taps into a click event for Flash on Android. So if you have a button or something in the Flash app, it should be working.

Comment 11

[Ex-Active-NEET]

Then Why drag is ruined?
I think drag means mousemove event during mousedown and mouseup events.