[macvoiceover] Re: aiphone, editing text

  • From: "Marco" <news@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:36:10 -0600

Donna and others,

I discovered something about the IPhone now that I am a proud owner of one
and have put it through some paces.  

The editing of text was something that had frustrated me for about an hour
and a half last night just trying to enter a 50 character text.  In my
frustration, I discovered something interesting about the IPhone's editing
cursor.  The cursor is bi-directional.  What I mean by this is that you can
be moving on the same character either to the left or to the right.  Most
people might say, "but that is old news."  Cursors have been doing this
since cursors have been invented.  But on the IPhone, the direction the
cursor is going will determine the character to be deleted or the position
of the inserted character depending on which side of the character the
cursor is.  
    For example, if you are going to the left in a character string, the
character that gets deleted is the one before it.  If you are going to the
right, the character that gets deleted is the one it is on top of.  If you
are inserting characters, the leftward direction of the cursor will place
the inserted character to the left of the cursor position, and when moving
to the right, the character will be inserted to the right.  So it isn't the
spot that the cursor is on that is critical, but the direction you are
going.  

Examples:
Flyfishing

Now if I spell the word wrong, 
Flyjishing 

You could erase the 'j' by one of two ways:

Moving your cursor to the left from the end, you could place your cursor on
'I' and press the delete key, or you could do this:

Move your cursor to the left till you get to 'j' and then flick once
downward to change the cursor's position, then press delete.  
    Hope this makes sense.  I learned this the very hard way.  Probably it
is written in some manual somewhere, but I am too lazy to spend hours
looking for it.  

Marco
Alberta Canada


-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of donna goodin
Sent: July 3, 2009 12:45 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] aiphone, editing text

Hi all,

I can't seem to figure out how to move the insertion point through a text
field in order to edit and correct typos.  I'm travelling, so not able to
consult docs on web.  Could someone please tell me how to do this?
Thanks,
Donna
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