Text selection in different apps

budrz

Hi,

I was looking though this

and I was wondering if anyone is working on text selection where you can drag and select some amount of text that you want like you would in tedit app, except for various other apps like in the Morph browser. It would be a handy tool especially when you need to copy code. But maybe I missed something on that page.

BTW, it doesn't seem to work that well in the Demo browser, unless it's just me.

A Former User

@budrz Do you mean like when you tap and hold down on spacebar?

domubpkm

See https://github.com/ubports/morph-browser/issues/21

And at the end

So, if all things go well, it should work in morph-browser for OTA-13 or before in a dev or rc update.

budrz

@Loops said in Text selection in different apps:

Do you mean like when you tap and hold down on spacebar?

I mean when you tap and hold and have the ability to drag the edge like

this example

that was posted on Stack Overflow.

budrz

@domubpkm awesome! I can't wait.

AppLee

@budrz
Hi, @Loops refered to a feature already present.
Tap and hold the space bar, now this interface allows you to move the cursor and make precise selection.

kugiigi

@AppLee Yeah that's for text fields but I think he's talking more about display-only texts such as in the browser.
BTW, in OTA-12, swiping from the bottom would be the easier way to do it

budrz

@kugiigi yeah that's what I'm referring to. I couldn't think of the phrase.