In an iOS app I'm developing I would like to use a scrolling text list where 
the user can drag the whole list up and down (i.e. scroll the list) but can 
also select a line by touching it.  This type of interaction is permitted in 
iOS: a simple example is the index of Apple's own Contacts app.

I have looked at the latest iOS notes for LC5.5 (Scroller Control - 
UIScrollView) and I can't understand how the textual list (like an ordinary LC 
scrolling field) would come in to the scroller; I'm also just beginning to use 
MobGUI to introduce some native controls, and that has a scroller object too. 
It is  complex and consists of a group into which it is possible to introduce 
such an LC field, but in that case it is sensitive to touches, but not to 
dragging/scrolling - I tried setting the parameter 'delay touches' but it 
didn't seem to change anything. 

Obviously I have missed some underlying concept here. The LC iOS doc says that 
a scroller isn't a container for other controls, but I don't know what that 
means. It seems a gnomic pronouncement rather on the lines of "Light is not a 
thing" or “Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.” Sounds terrific, but what 
does it actually mean?

I also tried reading the UIScrollView section of Apple's documentation. It's 
promising in a way (it mentions the need to do the kind of thing I'm talking 
about) but it doesn't help me enough to allow me to proceed.

Does anyone know how to do this? I have asked MobGUI support, but I don't know 
how reactive they are.

TIA

Graham
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