[maemo-developers] Aw: Re: Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Alberto Garcia]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:51:47PM +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:

> When using HildonTextView inside a PanableArea panning is working
> fine, but I can no longer select text. Are those two mutual
> exclusive?

In HildonTextView you cannot select text with the pointer. This is so
by design:

https://git.maemo.org/projects/hildon/gitweb?p=hildon;a=commit;h=b34c64c879c7e86488adbe8000f2f3f2be162a73

I think that with both features enabled user interaction can be quite
difficult/confusing if e.g. there's a big text view occupying a
significant part of the screen.

Berto