That it cannot select,copy and paste in qtide/android seems to be a bug in Qt library. I guess it is a kludge to overcome its inability to support touch screen gesture since Qt does not use android native widgets.
On 12.06.2014, at 2:53, Jan-Pieter Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not an issue with ME or any keyboard I think, as these things > (moving the cursor, selection, copy - paste or any other combination > of keys except for with shift) does not work even with a hardware > bluetooth keyboard, while they do work with other apps without issues. > > Jan-Pieter > > 2014-06-11 20:42 GMT+02:00 greg heil <[email protected]>: >>> In Hackers kb i can use ctrl-xcv to cut copy paste and i can move around in >>> the document (with arrow keys) ... but not in J. i can also extend >>> selections using shift and arrow keys - but the shift (and ctrl) is lacking >>> in ME. >> >>> Afaict there is no concept of selection yet in J and the cursor itself is >>> lacking some attribute that can be used for movement. Perhaps it is >>> reasonable that up and down movements should be complex in J, but not left >>> and right - though they _could_ be syntactically informed, eg as the >>> Potsdam students have. To do any such extentions means a special keyboard >>> though. It would be best to stay as close to the ligua franca as possible - >>> for portability, adoption etc sake. >> >> greg >> ~krsnadas.org >> >> -- >> >> from: William Tanksley, Jr <[email protected]> >> to: Programming forum <[email protected]> >> date: 11 June 2014 09:53 >> subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Android Keyboard >> >> greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> MessageEase is great! Thanks Wm! >> >>> Cool, I use it for everything. (The ME tutor "game" helps a LOT.) >> >>> Another idea, although more expensive, is "Grafitti" -- the glyph >>> recognition system. >> >>>> There seems to be no way of making a selection (nor change the selection:) >>>> nor a way to make a cursor movement. >> >>> You can select all by circling starting and ending at the ABC button. Aside >>> from long-pressing on the text, I don't know of a way to select text from >>> an Android keyboard. >> >>> You can modify a selection the same way you make cursor movements -- left >>> or right swipe on the spacebar, and up from 'i' or down from 's'. However, >>> I don't know how to control how the selection gets modified -- after you >>> asked is the first time I tried this. >> >>> I've used cursor movement a lot, and I can say that up and down can be >>> tricky -- you have to be careful to not go outside the keyboard, and on the >>> top (up from 'i') that's hard unless you have completion suggestions turned >>> on (from the settings) and the completion bar enabled (swipe up on the hand >>> icon). >> >>>> All this is upstream from cutting and copying (and accessing the paste >>>> buffers). >> >>> You do have that, right? Swipe and return downward from ABC? >> >>>> ME has copious documentation, perhaps it is in there somewhere. But i have >>>> accessed those facilities through another text editor (Dropboxes) >> >>> That's fascinating; it seems to have some ability to do this, but I don't >>> know how to control all of it. >> >>> greg >> >> -Wm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
