[maemo-developers] Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Sergio Villar Senin]

Murray Cumming escribiu:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:47 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:11 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
>>> In principle that feature is not officially supported in Fremantle,
>>> and adding support in HildonTextView might create inconsistencies
>>> between similar-looking apps/dialogs that could be quite confusing.
>>>
>>> But of course we can reconsider it (I don't have the last word,
>>> though). I'll see what we can do.
>> Well, if there is any chance to reconsider, that would be great. I
>> myself would be very happy and I think a bunch of other developers too.
>> I mean a big scrollable/panable text view is quite common for a lot of
>> applications. Mail clients, ebook readers, word processors, chat
>> programs, etc. all profit from copy&past for which we need a way of
>> selecting text.
> [snip]
> 
> It would be interesting to know what UI Modest has for this in Fremantle
> when editing large emails. Personally I can't get that far in my own
> eccentric scratchbox target.

Modest uses a pannable area which contains the text editor. Thus it's
not possible to select text in that way in Fremantle. You'll have to use
the keyboard.

Br