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

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:00 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the clarification Berto!
But then, what is the recommend way to produce a finger friendly text
view that is editable and scrollable/panable? Big scrollbars again? I
thought scrollbars where considered evil for Fremantle?! I'm a bit
confused now, I thought that panning/selecting would probably work like
in the Diablo webbrowser. That is, that you start a selection with a
double tap.

Conny