On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:41:16 +1000 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> (CH(R) wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:24:55 +0100 Tilman Baumann ><til...@baumann.name> said: > >> >> On 27 Apr 2009, at 02:07, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:38:20 +0200 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" >> > <m...@3v1n0.net >> > > >> > said: >> >> >> >> Recent versions of Elementary include a support for easy >> >> copy/paste actions. I think it's a good example that could be >> >> ported also to other >> >> toolkits (wich mostly need patches, BTW). >> > >> > yes. just hold down your finger for a second and presto.. menu >> > (you can paste >> > or begin selecting things). the selection is "malleable" ie the >> > first time when >> > there is no selection you define it with a drag. but after that >> > pressing near >> > the beginning or end of the selection allows you to adjust it to >> > get it right. >> > press and hold again for menu to "copy" or "cut" or "cancel". >> > cancel just >> > clears the selection and does nothing. copy and cut put that >> > selection in the >> > copy buffer, and going anywhere else to paste will paste it. >> >> Wow, nice! But it does only work in text edit fields. >> Not for example in the sms message view text area. Feature >> request... ;) > >that's up to the app - but if you look at elementary_test - anchorview >and anchoirblock both are not text fields u can type in - but they are >selectable (they allow selection) and the same thing works. it's up to >the app to allow selection or not - use anchorview widget or just a >simpel label (labels don't allow selection). it works really well, thank you. the only issue i can see is that if the text field is somewhere in the middle of the screen then the popup menu goes under the topbar... Petr _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
