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03-27-2014, 03:33 PM
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RE: user keys
My point was more along the lines of - no, touch screen (and mouse driven) UIs aren't the same as a keyboard w/ regards to long presses. A long press is fairly common in a different context (drag, drag and scroll throug a menu, drag and drop) in touch/cursor based UIs.

Long presses on a keyboard, on the other hand, are *very* uncommon, except for modifier keys (which are easily excluded) and are thus extremely hard to mistake for something else, as long as the length of what constitutes as a long press is longer than a common keypress (which is very short, even with a debounce period included). Think 1 second.

On top of that, asking for a long press is very different than having separate keyup and keydown events exposed to the (user accessible) programming language. Former implies a fixed "long press" length. The latter does not and is infinitely tweakable.
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user keys - cdodds - 03-17-2014, 01:42 AM
RE: user keys - Tim Wessman - 03-17-2014, 01:58 AM
RE: user keys - Han - 03-17-2014, 02:50 AM
RE: user keys - Joe Horn - 03-24-2014, 04:50 PM
RE: user keys - CR Haeger - 03-24-2014, 05:35 PM
RE: user keys - Han - 03-24-2014, 06:20 PM
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RE: user keys - davetheguru - 03-18-2014, 01:03 AM
RE: user keys - orcinus - 03-27-2014, 02:39 PM
RE: user keys - Han - 03-27-2014, 03:11 PM
RE: user keys - orcinus - 03-27-2014 03:33 PM



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