From 3374affa35052f0cd16c5148f4d8cfeedeb533ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jahorton <jahorton@sil.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:59:40 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(web): blur->focus handles horiz scrolling

---
 web/source/dom/input.ts | 29 +++--------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/web/source/dom/input.ts b/web/source/dom/input.ts
index 8045d086e6..ece93d6ea0 100644
--- a/web/source/dom/input.ts
+++ b/web/source/dom/input.ts
@@ -79,32 +79,9 @@ namespace com.keyman.dom {
       this.processedSelectionStart = start;
       this.processedSelectionEnd = end;
 
-      this.doScroll();
-    }
-
-    doScroll() {
-      let dummyKey = 32;
-
-      // Non-IE browsers:  create the event this way.  keyCode's bugged on InputEvent in Chrome,
-      // so we bypass that with a base Event instead.
-      if(typeof Event == 'function') {
-        event = new Event('keypress');
-        event['key'] = " ";
-        event['code'] = 0x20;
-        event['keyCode'] = 0x20;
-        event['location'] = 0;
-        event['getModifierState'] = function() {
-          return 0;
-        }
-      } else { // Yeah, so IE can't use the above at all, and requires its own trick.
-        event = document.createEvent('KeyboardEvent');
-        // An override to ensure that IE's method gets called.
-        // Many thanks to https://gist.github.com/termi/4654819, line 142 at the time of writing this.
-        var success = (<any>event).initKeyboardEvent('keypress', false, true, null, dummyKey, 0, 
-          '', 0, 0);
-      }
-
-      this.root.dispatchEvent(event);
+      //Forces scrolling; the re-focus triggers the scroll, at least.
+      this.root.blur();
+      this.root.focus();
     }
 
     getTextBeforeCaret(): string {