[bookport] Re: Does book port support undo
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:21:57 -0400
I specified Word on the desktop. It's usually the CTRL+Z keystroke.
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From: "Sandy Licht" <slicht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo
When you accidentally go to the end of a book in Word, which I have
done, there isn't even an undo command.
At 09:28 AM 9/8/2006, Walt Smith wrote:
>I seriously doubt that this is very practical and it would not be trivial
>to
>implement. It would mean that the Book Port firmware would constantly have
>to be monitoring your position in the document, recording that location
>somewhere, then redoing the whole thing after you complete some defined
>boundary (word, sentence, paragraph, page). The processing overhead would
>be
>very extreme. Undoing a move is nothing at all like undoing a change in
>Microsoft Word or something similar on a desktop computer (which has a
>vastly more powerful microprocessor). Also, in the two years that I've
>owned
>a Book Port, this is the first time I've heard this problem. When you say
>that you held down "a key," that seems to imply that you haven't read the
>manual, since you'd know which key you held down. The 1 key held down for
>one beep takes you to the beginning of the file; the 2 key held down for
>one
>beep takes you to the end of the file.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anthony" <anthony.gough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:59 AM
>Subject: [bookport] Re: Does book port support undo
>
>
>Any chance of adding undo in a future firmware update? While power move
>etc
>are ok it is not like hitting one or two keys and bookport putting you back
>where you were. I don't suppose it would be a hugely difficult feature to
>implement and I am sure many users would find it of use.
>
>Anthony
>
>
>
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