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by ptaoussanis 5161 days ago
Well that was quick ;)

In principle really like the idea of something like this- especially in the context of an app like yours where you're targeting long-document writers.

How's it feel to use in practice? I kind of liked the suggestion elsewhere here about needing 2 fingers to do the scrolling to prevent the cursor from accidentally running away.
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peterkelly 5161 days ago
I haven't had a chance to use it much but I definitely think it's an improvement over the existing mechanism. I already had some extra keys for cursor movement similar to those of IA Writer but this is better for moving across multiple characters.

I ran into a problem with the two-finger gesture, which is that Apple already use this for putting the keyboard into a split mode (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQTkZjvSok). So I'm currently figuring out how do deal with that without preventing people from using the split keyboard. I've emailed the guy who did the video about how he did his implementation but haven't heard back yet.

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ptaoussanis 5161 days ago
Hmm, interesting- didn't know about the split-keyboard thing (I'm only on iPhone).

I've been thinking about what else might be an alternative but am coming up short. More than 2 fingers would be impractical on an iPhone.

Question: In the video you linked to, the split-keyboard gesture looks quite specific... 2 separate fingers dragging away from or toward one another. I guess it's asking too much to hope that the device could distinguish between this kind of dragging and scroll-style dragging (2 fingers together, same direction)?

BTW I'm assuming this'll be up in the next beta sometime? Would love to play with it.

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peterkelly 5161 days ago
I'm pretty sure I'll be able to solve this by testing that both fingers are moving in the same direction (you have to move them apart to split the keyboard), and filtering some of the touch events before they reach the application if necessary.

And yes this will be in the next beta. I still have to finish off the styles and table stuff but will hopefully have it ready in a few days.

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