Guest mrjuglas Posted January 4, 2003 Report Posted January 4, 2003 Its use may be fairly limited, but as typing's such a pain there should be a way of cutting and pasting text, for example between messages or to paste a url from an email. I can see the limitations from a text selection point of view, but say you've typed your first name and it should be your surname... I don't know there've only been a few occasions when I felt I could have used it, what do the rest of you think?
Guest Bazz Posted January 5, 2003 Report Posted January 5, 2003 Yeah I'd like it, but I can't see any easy way to do it. It would probably be more bother than it's worth...
Guest wiltsboy Posted January 6, 2003 Report Posted January 6, 2003 This would be quite handly as I just found out, when forwarding an email or sms and you want to remove amounts of text.
Guest mrjuglas Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 well, you could have a soft key menu with a 'select text' command, then extend the selection with the arrows and use a soft key menu again to cut/copy etc... I don't see any problem in implementing it...
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 I've been reading the docs in Miocrosoft SDK for the phone and cut and paste is against their design philosophy and they recomend any other developers making new apps for the phone seriously consider the need for it. Basically their theory is that a phone style device is never going to be much chop for large volumes of data entry and also given the constraints of the user interface (limited keypad buttons) implementing a cut and paste would be a pain in the **** anyway. I can see where they're coming from, at the end of the day they had to make compromises because this isn't a fully featured PDA, it's a phone... As to needing to delete large amounts of text, in multi line edit boxes (like when you are composing text for a message) holding down the back key will continuously delete text one character at a time at the repeat rate defined in accessability options. This is different from one line edit field where holding it down erases the whole field. Maybe that will help you purging stuff from your forwarded messages?
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted January 12, 2003 Report Posted January 12, 2003 I was thinking the same thing today about editing text, especially removing large blocks (how annoying is the forwarding bumff put into sms's :/) it seems the lack of touchscreen/stylus combo is starting to "bite". as spacemonkey says though, it seems ms had to decide what could or couldnt be implemented. more advanced text editing wasnt one of them :/
Guest cookan Posted January 22, 2003 Report Posted January 22, 2003 my main gripe with having no cut'n'paste is the fact that it's a real pain to have to remember all the digits of a phone number when you're trying to re-org your contacts...or attempting to sms someone with someone elses number/email etc. I think MS have overlooked one major benefit of the copy buffer...ie a temporary store for small amounts of data that can't be held in the volatile human memory.. Ant.
Guest uzi_999 Posted November 12, 2003 Report Posted November 12, 2003 there is a program out there for the SPV which can copy and paste between apps. its called XBar and its made by xetra. I discovered a little while ago (maybe a few days ago) ill see if i can attach it.... its also an excellent task manager and can be brought up with one button....the voice recordXBAR.zip
Guest gpcarreon (MVP) Posted November 12, 2003 Report Posted November 12, 2003 i believe the Cut & Paste Program was created by maxh2003. Its a plug-in for Xetra's X-Bar. Here: http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=94028 :lol:
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