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Re: GUI suggestion
by pos on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @14:07

The hand cursor is not really like a gameboy pad if I understand correctly.

The hand cursor is what you get when you hold the spacebar down on adobe products like illustrator, acrobat and photoshop. The idea would be that once you touch the screen you take mouse coordinates and pan the page you are viewing based on how you move the mouse. The part of the page you click on stays under the pen tip.

I believe AvantGo's web browser for the palm works this way.

-pos

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Re: GUI suggestion
by Panayotis Vryonis on Monday 11/Dec/2000, @06:30

Yes, AvantGO works this way, and it is quite functional. However,
it is difficult to scroll down many pages at once ("I want to get to the bottom of this damn thing!").

Having the option of hidding the scroll bars is quite useful,
especially if combined with some sort of "scrolling device",
like the "Up-Down" buttons on Palms (is there support for such thing in Qt-embedded?).

Joystick-like devices are very good when you *need* diagonal movement (ex. games). On a PDA I'd rather have 2 rolling-devices
(I don't know how you call it in english, you know like the
old style buttons used in radios to manage the volume).
One at the top of the device (I could use it with my thumb) to scroll horizontally and one at the left side (where the pointer usually is) to scroll vertically...

Panayotis.

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