How do you do Up - Down - Left - Right in blade?

[Guest protocold]

Have been trying to figure out since the blade doesnt have the control in the middle for up-down-left-right.... how do you guys do it? or has it got some other smart way?

[Guest uberduck]

do you mean in a browser selecting text or what?

what i do was hope for the best when selecting small texts

[Guest rjm2k]

Have been trying to figure out since the blade doesnt have the control in the middle for up-down-left-right.... how do you guys do it? or has it got some other smart way?

It has a touchscreen

[Guest MrHicks]

I find placing the cursor exactly where you want it with the touch screen really hard, so I often resort to using Swype's arrow keys.

[Guest protocold]

It has a touchscreen

I know.. but so do all other android phone... like the Pulse e.g. it has touch screen and the control.

I find placing the cursor exactly where you want it with the touch screen really hard, so I often resort to using Swype's arrow keys.

Yeah.. it is very hard to pin the cursor at exactly where you want.... I guess arrow key will do....

[Guest jurrasstoil]

i hate to admit it, but i like the way iOS handles this with the little zoom and everything.

[Guest Stuart_f]

Swype keyboard and use the arrow keys. It's much quicker than repeatedly stabbing the screen trying to get the spot exactly right.

[Guest rjm2k]

I know.. but so do all other android phone... like the Pulse e.g. it has touch screen and the control.

Yeah.. it is very hard to pin the cursor at exactly where you want.... I guess arrow key will do....

A lot of new phones don't have the trackpad/ball

[Guest Lew247]

When typing htc keyboard, use the volume buttons to move the cursor left and right

[Guest Rotmann]

When typing htc keyboard, use the volume buttons to move the cursor left and right

+1 . You have to enable it in the HTC_IME settings though, but it's brilliant! The down volume button is cursor back and the up volume button is forward.

[Guest jurrasstoil]

+1 . You have to enable it in the HTC_IME settings though, but it's brilliant! The down volume button is cursor back and the up volume button is forward.

where do i enable it?

i have the latest htc_ime but can't find it :unsure:

PS: only thing the HTC is missing is multitouch like the gingerbread keyboard, apart from that its absolutely perfect imo.

Edited January 7, 2011 by jurrasstoil

[Guest brtbrt]

where do i enable it?

i have the latest htc_ime but can't find it :unsure:

PS: only thing the HTC is missing is multitouch like the gingerbread keyboard, apart from that its absolutely perfect imo.

User Interface -> Volume Keys

[Guest Lew247]

where do i enable it?

i have the latest htc_ime but can't find it :unsure:

PS: only thing the HTC is missing is multitouch like the gingerbread keyboard, apart from that its absolutely perfect imo.

If its missing you need the clicker.apk I posted it a few weeks back, thats the htc settings app

normally comes installed with the rom but I did find one that had it missing

[Guest samjam]

it would be good if the volume keys could select in the "shutdown menu" so that folk with touch-screen-freeze can select to shutdown nicely without just yanking the battery.

Come to think of it it would be good if just holding the power-button for 5 seconds selected shutdown (no prompt).

Can the htc_ime or clicker help here?

[Guest IronDoc]

Gingerbread improves this by adding iPhone style 'tags' (?) at the beginning and end of the highlighted section of text iirc.

[Guest xzyk]

Just to make you aware also that TouchPal keyboard has the arrow functions as well, it's probably the only reason i'm keeping it on my phone !