On Apr 24, 4:38 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Keith Wiley <[email protected]> wrote:
> You have all this stuff for every other touch operation known to > humanity, apparently, yet you can't just leave the long-press alone to > do what an EditText is supposed to do on a long-press? Why not move > your long-press functions to a quadruple tap or something? What is > sooooooooooooo magical about you hacking a long-press that is worth > breaking the existing expectations of the users? It sounds like you didn't understand my problem. The contextual menu was being triggered on the double and trip tap long presses also. That was fundamental to my problem. I couldn't prevent it from happening under reasonable circumstances. That was what I needed help with. > You assume that I am here exclusively to help you. I am also here to > put opinions in the record for those who read this thread in the > future (e.g., via a search). I don't want developers thinking that > messing with system menus is a good idea. Well, I understand that, but you didn't do both. You didn't make a clear philosophical argument and then explain how to achieve the technical goal of a double-tap long press that does not trigger a contextual menu. You stopped half way through. That was frustrating from my point of view. I take your point about the single-tap long press. I will either forcibly prevent it from being over-rided in my UI configuration settings or I will accompany with red flashing alarm-bell associated warnings that it should only be done if the user is certain they know what they are doing (I hate telling genuine power users that they can't do what they want, I love configured UIs to my own nuanced behaviors, it's the same reason my trackball has gazillions of DOF on it). I had already put in a warning message when overriding the long- press command but you have my thinking that I should make the warning more aggressive now...or perhaps even lock it out entirely just for the sake of conformity. I'll take it under consideration. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
