On Thu, 30 May 2002, Adam McDaniel wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 05:33:16PM -0700, Anthony Foglia wrote:
> > What about if all the characters are inverted as Akkana suggests,
> > and moving the jogdial changes both the icon and the text inversion
> > together? It seems that both are ways to select documents, so why would a
> > user need to select two at once?
>
> Hmm. It's a little easier said than done. I think you should download
> a prc from the hires branch, and run it on a sony device/emulator. If
> you cannot, let me make some screenshots of what actually goes on.
>
> It just sounds like what you're describing doesn't quite match up with
> what's actually in place, or should be in place.
I'm running v1.2beta7-hires on a Clie. I believe this is the
newest version.
Now, let's say I've returned to the library after reading a
document. If I haven't used the jogdial at all yet[*], for the document I
was just reading, I see the icon inverted. If I then move the jogdial,
first the title of the document I was just reading inverts, then the text
inversion moves to select a new document, but the icon inversion stays on
the original. I can then press the jogdial in to read the document whose
title is inverted. In effect I have two selections. One via the jogdial,
that I can only open, and the other via the icon that I can
open, categorize, delete, etc.
So my question is, why not have the icon selection and title
selection also move with the jogdial? That way there is only one
selection, indicated by both icon and text inversion, and it can be moved
any of three ways. I can move it up or down via the jogdial, I can press
the stylus against the icon, or I can press the stylus against the name
(which also opens up the document).
I have no idea what the code looks like, so I make no claims about
the difficulties in making the changes.
--Anthony
[*] I just discovered that if I use the jogdial in the document
library, then stylus tap on a different title name and then jump back to
the library, the just-opened document's title is hilighted. I guess
there's a "jogdial selection" (object/cursor/inversion) that doesn't start
until I first use the jogdial. Shouldn't it either always exist, or exist
independently of the stylus?
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