| Rod Speed 2007-07-03, 7:33 am |
| teechuan@gmail.com wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
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> 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):
Presumably there is some reason they chose to leave that out.
> "Even after all this, some room remains in the
> chord space for common menu commands.
Wota XXXXing wanker.
> Setting the thumb and forefinger down apart and
> then pinching them together intuitively invokes cut.
They appear to have used that for sizing.
> Copy becomes a simple, simultaneous tap of the thumb
> and a fingertip. Setting thumb and forefinger down
> together and flicking them apart invokes paste.
They appear to have used that for sizing.
> A clockwise rotation as if turning a screw saves the current file,
Why doesnt it just XXXX the current file ?
> and a counter-clockwise rotation pops up the open file dialog.
Why doesnt that pop the user's cork ?
> Additional menu commands could be invoked
> on future systems with handwriting gestures."
Yeah, give it the finger and it bites you on the arse.
Give it the it the little finger and it rips the user's head off.
> 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?
Yep, plenty have.
> 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?
Presumably because they use those gestures for
sizing instead and there isnt any obvious alternative.
Guess you could use a scissor motion for cutting, but that would be a tad hard to sense.
You could use a spit for paste, but again, thats got some downsides.
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