some UI and text input thoughts

Yorick Moko yorickmoko at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 13:19:20 CET 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Christopher Friedt
<chrisfriedt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to write to the list about two things - 1) zooming in the
> browser, photo viewer, etc, and 2) 'swiping' instead of typing
>
> 1)
>
> Assuming (well, hoping really) that could also apply to the
> touch-screen on the Neo or FR, I thought of these two which are
> analogous to using a screwdriver:
>
> clockwise circle == zoom in
> counter-clockwise circle == zoom out
>
> Are there any hardware engineers who can verify whether or not the
> touch-screen on the Neo or FR could register or generate motion-based
> events? If not, is this something that could be done easily in
> userspace (i.e. inputproto)?

I thought that would be trivial. If I recall correctly DOOM can be
controlled in two ways: accelerometers or TS. When controlling with
the TS you constantly press down on the TS with a finger, and "tilt"
your finger to the direction in which you want to move. Found an
example of it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNVhLmC4RhM

zooming in could be done by tilting the finger forward
zooming out by tilting the finger backwards

maybe i'm overlooking something here...
to make it work good in a webbrowser (which is filled with clickable
object like links) the "click event" should occur on "finger up"
though, not on "finger down"



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