David Chevalier wrote:
[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.
I've read through the patent docs, and they seem to be VERY specific
about the fact that the patent applies ONLY to alternate launch modes
for an application. For instance, tap to launch, tap-hold to launch AND
start new doc, tap-long-hold to launch AND go to a specific document;
stuff like that. It doesn't seem to apply to a control within an
application having multiple uses depending on hold duration. I don't
believe that this patent would prevent you from doing exactly what you
want. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong. Bob.
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