| teechuan@gmail.com 2007-07-03, 4:33 am |
| On Jun 29, 5:52 am, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And it cant cut andpasteeither, pretty XXXXed with email.
>
According to Wayne Westerman's PhD thesis "Hand Tracking, Finger
Identification and Chordic Manipulation on a Multi-Touch Surface" (on
which the iPhone's multitouch tech is based), copy & paste was planned
to work as follows (page 13, section 1.2.2.5):
"Even after all this, some room remains in the chord space for common
menu commands. Setting the thumb and forefinger down apart and then
pinching them together intuitively invokes cut. Copy becomes a simple,
simultaneous tap of the thumb and a fingertip. Setting thumb and
forefinger down together and flicking them apart invokes paste. A
clockwise rotation as if turning a screw saves the current file, and a
counter-clockwise rotation pops up the open file dialog. Additional
menu commands could be invoked on future systems with handwriting
gestures."
I've head that some "deletes" on the iPhone are accomplished by
sliding your finger across the length of the item (as if you were
going to cross something out) which brings up a "delete" icon. Has
anyone tried the copy and paste finger chords on the iPhone? I think
it peculiar that Apple would spend all that money buying up the
Fingerworks multitouch, chordic patents but didn't think to keep in
something as useful as copy & paste?
Cheers,
Chuan
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