So I was in the browser tonight playing around with the ability to shift the cursor to any point by touching and holding the screen in any area that accepted text input.
When you do this you will notice a cursor appear above your figure which can be positioned. Cool right. My first thought was that if the cursor appeared above my finger how could I position on the last visible area of the screen. I dragged my finger down to the bottom of the screen and then onto the buttons and to my surprise the cursor continued to move. In fact it tracked perfectly no matter I i moved my fingers across the buttons.
In short the touch screen extends all the way to the bottom of the buttons!
It's cool that they don't separate the touch regions for this purpose... does it work in other parts of the OS too?
Hmmm I'm not sure
A easy way to see it to see this in action is to head into one note and click the text area. Press and hold and drag your finger down over the buttons whilst the purple cursor is on screen.
it is also active over the HTC logo at the top, I'd imagine the whole glass face is active
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I noticed on the AT&T Tilt, if you press down hard on the space bar it appears to have a second level - ie., press lightly, it clicks once and types a space. Press herder and it clicks down further to a second position. I noticed this doesn't happen with any of the other keys. Is this just a flaw in the design or can this message to the os be remapped to add more functionality to the phone? When you press hard on the space bar, if it registers as two extrmely quick space bar presses (like a double-click) then maybe someone can code something to have that act as an additional button? Or in reality have I just lost my mind?
KruseLudsMobile said:
I noticed on the AT&T Tilt, if you press down hard on the space bar it appears to have a second level - ie., press lightly, it clicks once and types a space. Press herder and it clicks down further to a second position. I noticed this doesn't happen with any of the other keys. Is this just a flaw in the design or can this message to the os be remapped to add more functionality to the phone? When you press hard on the space bar, if it registers as two extrmely quick space bar presses (like a double-click) then maybe someone can code something to have that act as an additional button? Or in reality have I just lost my mind?
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Are you talking about repitition? If so, then all keys function that way. If you press and hold any keys, it will repeat the function.
It's not a two stage button (like the camera button... 1st click is focus, 2nd takes the pic). It's just that it's a wide button, so there are two contacts below it to cover the entire area. You must be pressing it near the center of the bar, and making both contacts. If you press towards the left or right, you will only activate one of the buttons.
My bet would be that there is a 4x10 grid of contacts and the space bar just happens to cover two columns. Probably no secret functionality here... simplest explanation is probably the right one.
If you press the space bar while holding the power button and click your heels together, it will take you home to Kansas.
I am in Kansas
It worked!
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It worked!
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took me to newark
Jeez thanks alot guys
woe woe wats rong with newark?
I hated the entire area. Maybe Basic Training at Ft Dix (1988) put a sour taste in my mouth.
While tinkering with google map's I noticed that the screen seems to respons to 2 seperate points? give it a try for yourself. I used my finger to move side to side and the pointer to move up and down, this worked together and independantly on my phone. If this is the case can we see software to support this function such as image resize and so on?????
P.S. a couple of other things to try.....
Hold volume up button and press the action button (this brings up the screen calibation)
I think this has been mentioned before but there is a easteregg in the weather screen
If you tap on the dark bar that says weather near the side Left then Right it run's a demo of the various animations.
I don't think it's multi touch, it just finds the mean of the two points you press. It's the same if you use two fingers in some touch pads at laptops. Try this and you may understand what I'm talking about. Start google maps and touch the left part of the screen. While keeping your finger down, touch the right part and see when happens. With both fingers down, release the left finger and see what happens. This is due to the way the touch screen works, but it's definitely not multitouch.
Good tips for the screen calibration and the animations demo (although it doesn't show all animations - I didn't see the fog animation )
So I down loaded this:
http://www.innovisoft.com/virtuamouse/
Free trial, seems to work as stated. it gives you a mouse pointer that the direction keys control. But I got to thinking that the fuze has a touch sensitive control pad since Gscroll works with it. If one could get them both to work together (including double tap to open) you would have a regular laptop type touch pad control of the phone then. And control it one handed to do almost everything.
Is there a way to get Gscroll to work with this?
Looks good but there are two issues for Fuze users... #1, our directional pad is too low/flat for easy side to side scrolling. #2, the price for this program + Gscroll would be over $30.. lil steep for a virtual mouse.
Maybe someone thats handy at programming would take an interest in it. Doesnt look like much codewise, as both programs (mouse pointer and gscroll) are tiny bytewise. I wouldnt care if you had to swipe 2-3 times on the small Fuze touch pad to move the pointer across the device screen. At least you could do 99% of the control of your device one handed with a thumb then. Right now I have the mouse pointer set to my end call long key press to activate/deactivate it, and using the dpad buttons is a pain, along with having to press the center button as "click". Double tap and swipe on either side of the center button would be easy to control it.
I think,that it can be very useful with adjustable sensitivity. In comparison with Omnia/i780 touchpad,Raphael's space is much more bigger,so it couldn't be a problem. I am interesting too for kind tool.
I 've tried to make it work with Gscroll, but I had no luck...
Not only that, but it disables the gscroll functions...
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Maybe someone thats handy at programming would take an interest in it. Doesnt look like much codewise, as both programs (mouse pointer and gscroll) are tiny bytewise. I wouldnt care if you had to swipe 2-3 times on the small Fuze touch pad to move the pointer across the device screen. At least you could do 99% of the control of your device one handed with a thumb then. Right now I have the mouse pointer set to my end call long key press to activate/deactivate it, and using the dpad buttons is a pain, along with having to press the center button as "click". Double tap and swipe on either side of the center button would be easy to control it.
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How did you managed to change the functions of the Long Press End key, could you help me with that, please?
Hi Guys,
Just a quick one, has anyone found a way to calibrate the screen as I find that when trying to select text and stuff the cursor is way off my finger and it's a tad difficult.
Is there anyway to run a calibration like you used to have to do for WM Devices that used a stylus???
Thanks.
Jamie
I have the same problem but i am putting it down to the first time i have used a touch screen like this (had Touch HD last)
I actually think it's designed that way, ie so you can see where you are placing the cursor rather than having to guess where your finger is over which piece of text you are trying to alter, if you watch when you place your finger the cursor appears above your finger which makes it a lot easier to position in a bunch of text.
IMO it's a neat solution to not having a track ball for easy positioning for editing text.
To confirm - it is designed that way
That's fine and now you mention it, it does make sense, thought it was just me that's all lol Actually quite like it now I'm getting used to it. Used to be tricky to do this on iPhone as my finger covered up the word lol
I have to say I loled a bit when I read this, you can even see the cursor pop up from under your finger
I upgraded to the S6 Edge from an S3. On the S3 the home screens and app menu wrapped around (i.e. swiping right on the far right screen brought me to the far left screen) and if I pressed on the dot corresponding to any home or app screen it would navigate directly to that one. On the S6 Edge, screens do not wrap around and pressing on any dot that's not next to the screen I'm on just moves it one screen in the right direction, but not all the way there. This is a pretty frustrating way to navigate as it means more swiping. Anybody able to get some better screen navigation for home and app screens or am I stuck with this?
Yes, this is my EXACT problem. Is there some magic setting that unlocks this feature? I didn't realize how much I relied on the navigation dots till that functionality disappeared with my new S6! It's such a little thing, but it's making using the new phone really, really aggravating. Has anybody found a solution to this?
ETA: I too upgraded from an S3, but to a plain S6, not the S6 Edge. I don't know how I feel about the fact that this is apparently a problem across phones . . .
Also, while we're at it, can we make the menu button come back? I miss it. . So to recap: 1) navigation dots, 2) screen wrap around navigation, 3) menu button. All missing. All essential.
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I upgraded to the S6 Edge from an S3. On the S3 the home screens and app menu wrapped around (i.e. swiping right on the far right screen brought me to the far left screen) and if I pressed on the dot corresponding to any home or app screen it would navigate directly to that one. On the S6 Edge, screens do not wrap around and pressing on any dot that's not next to the screen I'm on just moves it one screen in the right direction, but not all the way there. This is a pretty frustrating way to navigate as it means more swiping. Anybody able to get some better screen navigation for home and app screens or am I stuck with this?
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Agreed! This is terrible! Is this one of those Touch Wiz cuts that everyone is praising? Ugh, I miss the dots and the wraparound home screens.