An awesome patent. It should be really enforceable being there is no prior art for this. I wish the Newton did this way back when, it would have really added to the interface. It would have been nice if the power button on my Palm Pro also turned on the backlight if I held it for a second or two. Or if an on-screen repeating button increased the frequency it repeated as it was held down. Nope, no prior art.
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Chevalier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: Re: Lists - tap and hold > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a list, in which I need the user to be able to tap and hold any entry, and it will pop up information regarding the selected item. > > > > Right now I am struggling with the tap and hold part. > > Technical issues aside, you might have legal problems with this technique if > you try to use it in the US (maybe australia is free of this nonsense). > > MSFT seems to have obtained a patent US 6,727,830 issued April 27, 2004 "Time > based hardware button for application launch" > The infamous "double-click" patent that I think really should be called the > PocketPC "tap-and-hold" patent. > Maybe I'm wrong. > > good luck with that pen event loop, though. > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
