Q: re OperaMini input screens: any way to "delete all"? - General Topics

I understand the issues with OperaMini being java based, and so cut & paste doesn't work (except for secret Menneisyys relay methods )
And one workaround is the SIP softkeyboards that have built in cut-copy-paste functions... for example, I use PCM Keyboard, and, only within input fields, which open up a text page, I can copy, paste, etc.
But I have not seen: "Clear" or "Select all & delete". For example, I am composing a reply-Gmail on OperaMini, and I want to get rid of most of the prior reply that is carried onto my compose screen. I see no way to "select all" and delete.
The best I can do is go to the end of the whole text block, and hit delete key and keep hitting it repeatedly until the space is cleared. Even that would be okay if the repeat-key delete function was super fast, but it's super slow.
Any ideas?
QuickMenu, which I use (and is built into Ivan's ROM i am using for my T-Mobile wing) has some special copy-paste-select all-select all & copy functions, but I cannot seem to use them in conjunction with an OperaMini input page.

On Esmertec Jbed you just press cancel, and it exits the text input page without making any changes.

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New "New message"

Here's a small replacement for the "Message" entry in the "New" menu. (There's no native "New" menu on WM5, but there are tools like here)
It's mainly made because the original entry doesn't work on my P525, but it might be useful for others, too. It should also work fine with WM2003(SE), though I haven't tested it.
Features:
- New entry "Message+" in "New" menu
- The original "Message" entry is deactivated, but can be activated in the settings (WM2003, rider in menu entries) or registry (HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\NewMenu\{1D210285-ABE7-11d2-8442-0000F87A584A}\Enabled).
- Can be invoked directly in the start menu or tools like PocketPlus, iLauncher, ... (\Windows\MortNewMsg.exe, if the link isn't created proberly)
- Choosable account/service (SMS is default if available otherwise the first entry)
- Ability to filter by groups, recipent types (cell phones, all phone number, eMail addresses) and recipent name (search over "Show as" field)
- Multiple recipents possible (unselect previous selection by tapping again if you tapped the wrong one!)
- Search field has focus after start; (de)selection in listbox is possible with fire button - so it's easy to use with keyboards (though it's better to switch to "abc" mode on P525)
- Activates message area in the system's dialog, so no tab or tapping is required
However, there might be some troubles (performance/memory usage) if there are very many contacts.
The screenshot's from the German version, but the attachment's in English.
There'll be no other translations, because that'd be a bit complicated in this case.
Edit: Patched missing "Cancel" translation.
Hey Mort!
Is there any chance to get the german version as long as your page is down?
You can get it here.
Hmm, my search didnt find it - thanks a lot!
Oops, created the link in Startup instead of Programs. Please move/delete it manually, or download again and reinstall it...
Great app!
Works on my Touch Pro WM6.5... a great tool for sending sms or email using categories or groups via pocket outlook..
suggestion: wish to have a "select all" button...

Floating context menu in WM6 Standard (smartphone)?

Hi - I have searched and searched, but can't find the answer: how do you bring up the context menu (ie. right-click menu on the desktop; tap&hold action on Pocket PC) on a smartphone?
I have a T-Mobile Shadow (HTC Juno), but every button I try to "hold" just activates its "single press" function. I might have assumed that the Smartphone OS does not include support for a context menu, except I read somewhere that it was assigned to one of the hardware buttons on the HTC Tornado, and when using MyMobiler (remote keyboard/mouse app, kind of like VNC for the smartphone) I am able to right-click on screen items to bring up context menus. Obviously these menus exist, especially because WM6 has a (mostly) unified application platform, and many otherwise PPC apps make heavy use of the tap&hold menu function.
Digging around in the registry, I found the following key:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Extensions\ContextMenu\{CCCB31A5-8BA0-11d2-8C2F-00C04F72E246}
As well as a "ContextMenus" (plural) key in the same area that contains sub-keys for ActiveSync, AppView, Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, Notes, Phone, PicturePicker, Pictures...
...so clearly even many of the built-in smartphone apps include support for context menus.
I'd like to assign the context-menu functionality to my Shadow's hardware key, which probably means I need to create a shortcut file (.lnk) that activates this extension. Does anybody know how to do this? The PPC hardware button architecture is different; it uses a DWORD "Flags" value of "0B" for the context menu.
Anybody? Being able to bring up the context menu makes applications like Total Commander much easier to use. Please don't reply and tell me that there's no such thing as a floating context menu on the Smartphone OS, because I've disproven that.
(cross-posted at MoDaCo here: http://www.modaco.com/content/HTC-J...ting-context-menu-in-WM6-Standard-smartphone/)
there aren't context menus on smartphones
That's a funny one. Seriously, install MyMobiler and try right-clicking in on the Smartphone interface with your mouse. You'll get context menus.

Tutorial: Creating MIDlet shortcuts in start menu, and changing the shortcut icon

Well, so you have installed Opera Mini, you love the app but hate having to open your MIDlet manager each time you want to run it. You can't have a direct shortcut icon in your start menu or your quicklaunch bar. Here is a tutorial to fix it (step 1 works with any MIDlet, step 2 works with any shortcut)
First i have to give due credit to Menneisyys and his awesome Java MIDlet Bible, and also to bobstar_fr for his shortcut icon mod tutorial
PREREQUISITES :
- Get yourself a decent MIDlet manager, the default windows one is crap. I would advise Esmertec Java Manager which can be found here.
- Download an Icon Editor for PC, for example the 30-day trial version of ArtIcons Pro will do the job.
STEP 1 : Creating a MIDlet shortcut
This step assumes you have installed Esmertec Jeodek or Esmertek Jbed (see prerequisites)
First, locate the list position of the Java MIDlet you want to shortcut in the Jeodek/Jbed application list. If you install Jeodek/Jbed as a fresh install, and then directly install Opera Mini, just use the number "0" to refer to Opera Mini.
Warning, if you uninstalled some midlets, the application list may not start at 0 or may have gaps. This number is in fact incremented starting at 0 each time you install a new MIDlet.
Then, go to \Windows\Start menu\Programs, and create a new shortcut. In the "target" field, type this :
"\windows\jbed.exe" -run s0_
Replacing the number 0 after the "s" letter by the list position of your MIDlet as found above.
If you have Jeodek installed, you will want to replace jbed.exe with jeodek.exe
Then click on your shortcut, et voila, the MIDLet runs immediately without having to launch the manager.
All credit goes to Menneisyys
STEP 2 : Modifying the shortcut icon
So you have a nice working shortcut, but it has the default java icon instead of the MIDlet icon. If you make many shortcuts they will all share the same (ugly) icon. You may want to change this.
The bad point is that you can't directly access the icon in a .jar file. You may only use icons included in .exe or .dll files. You could extract the .png icon from the .jar file and compile it into a .dll, but this is not the goal of this tutorial.
So if you want to change the icon of your newly-created Opera Mini shortcut, you will use another icon, for example the one from Opera 8.
Find the .exe (or .dll) which contains the icon you want to use, copy it on your PC, then open it with your Icon Editor. You will see a list with all icons included in the file, along with a number. Write down this number, it's the ID of your icon and you will need it.
For example, when you open OperaWM.exe in your icon editor, you see several icons, and the one we're interested into (with the red "O") has ID number 131.
Then go back to your Start Menu shortcut, and in the target field add the following at the end of the line :
?path_to_your_exe,-icon_ID
For the above example, this would be :
?\Windows\OperaWM.exe,-131
Et voila, you now have a nice icon for your shortcut.
All credit goes to bobstar_fr
To end this tutorial, here's a few ready-made examples :
Example 1:
Shortcut for Opera mini, installed in first position in your manager, with opera icon. In the target field of your shortcut, you would write :
"\windows\jbed.exe" -run s0_ ?\Windows\OperaWM.exe,-131
Example 2:
Shortcut for SFR Messenger, installed in second position in your manager, with MSN messenger icon. In the target field of your shortcut, you would write :
"\windows\jbed.exe" -run s1_ ?\Windows\WLMMessenger.exe,-50
Thats'it, hope you will enjoy.
Great tutorial!!! I'll give it a try later tonight. I have jbed installed on storage card though (the modded version of jbed)... I wonder if that may become a problem?
owziee said:
Great tutorial!!! I'll give it a try later tonight. I have jbed installed on storage card though (the modded version of jbed)... I wonder if that may become a problem?
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No problem for having jbed installed on your storage card, just replace the "\Windows\jbed.exe" by "\Storage Card\jbed.exe" in all your shortcuts (insert subdirectory if needed).
Great tutorial, I link to it from the Bible.
Hi dude
What about link to MIDlet folders (shortcuts to folder and to any app installed inside it)?
Ciao
Menneisyys said:
Great tutorial, I link to it from the Bible.
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Wow, i'm honored to get that kind of feedback from the java king of xda-devs.
@[email protected] said:
Hi dude
What about link to MIDlet folders (shortcuts to folder and to any app installed inside it)?
Ciao
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I need to test this to see if installing MIDlets in folders breaches the rule of incremental numbering by installation date. Will keep you updated.
JZ SmartMort v1.4 Released!
Announcing JZ SmartMort v1.4!​
Now you can use JZ SmartMort to create Opera Mini and any other JBed application icon on your Start Menu!
Have a look at the screenshots of JZ SmartMort, available HERE or at SourceForge. Below are the prominent features that the software offers.
Copy / Paste
Clipboard / URL history
Multi-browser (Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, NetFront, Skyfire, Internet Explorer)
Make any installed browser system-level, where it opens links from anywhere. Ability to have a default browser (with a special timeout in case you want to open a link with a non-default browser).
Hardware buttons - supports Pocket PCs & SmartPhones for advanced hardware button mapping.
Opera Mini - shortcut on the Start Menu, different paste & URL handling methods to accommodate different phones.
JBed - create Start Menu shortcuts for any JBed app, run JBed App directly using JZ SmartMort, troubleshoot your JBed installation.
Ability to open synced Mobile Favorites with any browser, process killing and many other interesting features.
Includes general tweaks and hacks which will keep growing
Revisions:
v1.4 *** 2008-07-07
- Created help files.
- Browser: Skyfire fully compatible now, new scan/detection with fail-over paths (if browsers references don't exist in the usual locations like the registry). If default browser timeout is set to zero, the JZ Browser prompt will be bypassed entirely.
- Opera Mini: full-screen, kill JBed option, multiple URL & pasting options.
- Lots of new options for button mapping. All known registry and link file button hacks now integrated to allow virtually any command to be called up. Also provides ability to create a CUSTOM link file from scratch.
- Changed menus to include menu-returns for easy navigation and better user friendliness. Added letters to Action menu as qwerty keyboard shortcuts.
- Phone-specific menu under JZ Settings which expands button mapping for BlackJack II (Samsung i617) CV/MediaNet buttons, as well as, AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser) PTT & Long-PTT buttons. More will be added.
- Creation of Start Menu shortcuts & opening of JBed applications w/o needing to open JBed first.
- 3 different methods under JZ Settings > JZ Misc. Options for opening Favorites. Save a Favorite from the JZ Browser script when you pop a link.
- Incorporated VitoCopyPaste with a timeout to return your directional pad action button back to normal.
- Various speed & optimization considerations incorporated.
- Function to deal with MortScript losing focus (e.g. when Home is pressed while Mort choice menu is running).
I would like to add two things:
1) You can limit the memory for jBed and Jeodek:
59#"\Esmertec Java\jbed.exe" -run s2_ -DFile.maxStorageSize=4M
2) Shortcut for Tao Intent:
55#"\Program Files\TAO\jmm.exe" -r"Gmail","Google","Gmail"
I'd like to add a reference to a free icon/resource editor that allows you to create your own set of icons, e.g. for reference in the JBed .lnk files.
Tool Download: http://icofx.ro/downloads.html
Online Help for library creation: http://icofx.ro/tutorials/tutorial4.html
If anyone gets the error: "could not find suite s0..." the solution might be changing the quotation... i mean the "" characters that you copy/paste or write...
Leave the entire command sequence without quotations:
\windows\jbed.exe" -run s0_
That should work!
Hi all.
Tried all above and can't figure it out, "Could not find suite..." error keeps comming
my jbed is located on sd card, path:
\Storage Card\Program Files\Esmertec\Jbed 20090217.5.1R2\jbed.exe
Could it be the jbed location?
You need to check if the suite you access also exists under this number. The numbering is not (immediately) filling gaps that are created when deleting a suite.
V3rt!g(o) said:
Hi all.
Tried all above and can't figure it out, "Could not find suite..." error keeps comming
my jbed is located on sd card, path:
\Storage Card\Program Files\Esmertec\Jbed 20090217.5.1R2\jbed.exe
Could it be the jbed location?
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Have you ever try?
I've successful to create shortcut :
69#"\Storage Card\Program Files\Esmertec\Jbed 20090217.5.1R2\jbed.exe" -run s1_ ?\windows\ListView.exe, -1
unfortunately, I can't change the icons.

I've managed to enable copying text from Opera Mini on ALL mobile platforms!!

As has been pointed out in all of my articles dedicated to the excellent, lightweight browser Opera Mini, in addition to the lack of italic characters, probably the biggest problem with it has always been the lack of support for copying text from a Web page.
Now, this is fixed. While the way I've enabled copying is certainly inferior to the excellent copy capabilities of Teashark (see THIS), it's certainly working and, at last, enables anyone to copy anything out of any Web page, regardless of the platform you use. Yeah, it IS revolutionary.
How it works? Pretty easy: I've created a Web application that you need to pass the address (the URL) of the page you'd like to copy contents from. After entering (copying) the address, it presents you the contents of the page in a text area, which is already copy-enabled; that is, you can copy anything from them to your device's clipboard.
As mobile devices, in general, are only able to handle small(er) chunks of text in a text area, the dialog you're presented uses 2000-char-long chunks of text. You can easily switch between the block you're reading by just clicking the appropriate block link (0, 1, 2 etc.) There's also a way to force the application to display the entire page at once; note that, with pages over 10-15 kilochars, this may result in Opera Mini's slowing to crawl. That is, use it if you're absolutely sure your particular model / operating system lets for putting larger texts in an editable text area.
Now, let's see how this all works in practice.
1. add the Web page http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com to your favorites in Opera Mini (the easiest way of doing this is reading this article in Opera Mini and clicking the link)
2. when you're on a(nother) page you'd like to copy something from, copy the address of the page you'd like to copy text from to the clipboard of your device. This needs to be done in the following way:
a. on Windows Mobile Pocket PC's (but not touchscreen-less Smartphones, where you need an additional app for copying):
a-1: press #1 (if your phone has a hardware dialpad) or go to Menu (left softkey) / Enter Address
a-2: If you haven’t disabled the new auto-completion address input field (the Auto-complete address input checkbox in Settings), press Down and go to Insert symbol… by pressing Up; and select it; you’ll be taken to the address input field of your Java environment. (You’re taken straight here if you disable the new, Opera Mini-specific address input field.)
a-3: select Menu (right softkey) / Current Address
a-4: As you can see, the address of the current page is displayed. Just copy it: highlight it entirely (under Jbed, to do this, click Shift, Ctrl and, finally, the left arrow on the on-screen keyboard) and press Ctrl-C on the virtual keyboard.
b. on Blackberry phones:
b-1: press #1 (if your phone has a hardware dialpad) or go to Menu / Enter Address
b-2: If you haven’t disabled the new auto-completion address input field (the Auto-complete address input checkbox in Settings), roll the trackball down, and, then, up, until you get to Insert symbol…. Now, you'll be taken to the address input field of your Java environment. (You’re taken straight here if you disable the new, Opera Mini-specific address input field.)
b-3: press the Shift button and roll the trackball down until the entire (current) address is selected
b-4: press Menu and select the (default) Copy.
b-5: to exit this dialog, press Back twice.
3. now that you've copied the address of the current page, switch to the previously (in bullet 1) stored page. When it loads, copy the URL of the previous page (the one you'd like to copy text from) to the "Enter the URL to convert" textfield. To do this, start editing the field and,
- on Blackberries, press the hardware Menu button and go down to Paste.
- on Windows Mobile devices, bring up the virtual keyboard and click Ctl, and, then, V
- on Symbian devices, long-press the Pen button until "Paste" is shown over the right softkey. Not releasing the Pen button, press the right softkey.
After some conversion, a new page is displayed, with a huge text area displaying the textual contents of the Web page. If the contents of the page is longer than 2000 characters, only the first 2000 is displayed (not to overburden the phone) and you can select the later ones by clicking 1, 2, ... n at the top of the page. You can also make the system display the entire content entirely, without cutting it in chunks, by clicking the "Click here to see the entire page!" link. Again, use this feature with caution - again, your phone may slow to a crawl, if the midlet manager's text area component is able to edit so huge blocks of text at all).
Finally, if you absolutely don't see anything and/or you'd like to see the entire markup of the page, click "Click this to switch to tag-enabled mode if you don't see anything".
After you've stepped into editing the text area displaying the (given chunk of) text, just look for the expression / URL etc. to copy to the clipboard. Once you've found it, highlight it and copy to the clipboard. This operation is supported on all the major smartphone operating systems and done in the same way as copying the address of the current page to the clipboard.
Hosting
Currently, the converter is hosted on a free JSP server that needs to be manually restarted every six hour (to force people to purchase a real Web package). That is, when you do check it out, it might not work at all. I will surely move it to another page / service provider if I don't find anyone else to voluntarily host it, depending on the price / conditions. (Currently, I don't really need a JSP/PHP-capable Webpage and, consequently, I've only subscribed to a static one for my database/picture/file back-end at http://www.winmobiletech.com/ ; this is why I can't currently host it myself.)
If you have the bandwidth and you'd like to help Opera Mini users, feel free to host the files yourself. If you have a JSP engine (Tomcat et al.), you'll find the web application (WAR) file HERE. If you only have a PHP or ASP engine, and don't want to struggle with porting the Java app into PHP or ASP, let me know and I convert it instead.
Source
The source of my converter is really-really small. The two, related files HERE and HERE, should you want to know how it works. The first is the main "landing" page you need to paste the URL to paste text from (it's a static HTML page as there is no need for any dynamic content in it); the second is the actual JSP page doing the work.
I've updated my eatj.com account: subscribed to a one-month plan (for $10). Now, the service should start working in 12 hours. There will be no pauses from now on. Feel free to use the service - and don't forget to provide me feedback on what you would welcome.
Also free to provide me with commonly visited pages (CNN etc.) that you think I could provide a more sophisticated engine - for example, only displaying article text and not displaying other stuff.
All in all, feel free to (publicly! NOT IN PRIVATE MESSAGES, they will all be ignored!) ask me to provide new functionality and/or site-based custom processing.
UPDATE:
In the meantime, based on public feedback (see selurus' and yitzy's requests on Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 18:13:35 and 23:30:15, respectively, at http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=277592&t=1244154046 ), I've added the following two front-end pages:
http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/i2.html : if you paste the source page URL to this page, you'll be presented by all blocks in order. This way, you'll see (based on the text already visible in the beginning of each textarea) right away in which block you need to look. selurus reported it caused no slowdown on his handset; your mileage, on other handset models / operating systems may vary. That is, if you don't need this kind of breakup and/or it causes too much slowdown and you're sure you can find a given part of the text faster using the traditional links, use the first version instead. (Feedback is welcome!)
http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/i3.html : this displays UTF-8 pages properly (most oriental languages like Chinese / Japanese; Hebrew etc.). I've tested it with http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1090414.html (Hebrew) and http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanit (Finnish; check out the letter "ž" in word gudžarati after "urdu, hindi, sanskrit ja"). NOTE: it's for UTF-8 source pages ONLY. Do not try to decode e.g. East-European languages using 8859-X with it. I plan to release a version compatible with these traditional, 8-bit encodings as well when I have the time so that charset setting becomes automatic.
As you can see, these front-ends 1. offer an alternative view (displaying the content of the entire page in multiple text areas, keeping in mind the text area editing limits) and 2. allow for copying from UTF-8-encoded pages.
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Also in the Opera Mini Community forum, there's a nice tip posted by Yeswap: use "bookmarklets" to speed up invoking the converter. To do this, do the following:
1. from Opera Mini, go to http://o.yeswap.com/
2. click Tools or scroll down to Tools
3. click Copy Page Text
4. (seemingly) the same page reloads; NOW bookmark it as a standard bookmark (Menu / Tools / Add Bookmark or #7 if you have hardware buttons). However, don't save the bookmark yet - just open it for editing!
5. remove "http://o.yeswap.com/?" from the URL so that it becomes javascript:location.href='http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/om.jsp?q='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&blocknr=0'
6. now, you can already save the edited bookmark.
7. you can quickly invoke the new bookmark: when you're on a Web page you'd like to copy to the contents to an editable text area (so that you can, later, copy text from), just go to your bookmarks (Menu / Bookmarks or, if you have hardware keys, #2) and click the just-added "Copy Page Text" entry. You'll be immediately taken to the target page - that is, no manual URL pasting is necessary any more! As you can see, this has really made all this very simple.
Note that you can safely change "om.jsp" to either "om2.jsp" or "om3.jsp" in the URL you bookmark (so that it becomes javascript:location.href='http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/om2.jsp?q='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&blocknr=0' and javascript:location.href='http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/om3.jsp?q='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&blocknr=0', respectively), should you want to have a direct link to the two new, alternative pages (display all the pages and use UTF-8) I've just added.
Also note that, strictly, you don't have to go to http://o.yeswap.com/ to add the bookmarklets. You can do the same by adding a new bookmark with the above contents (e.g., javascript:location.href='http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/om2.jsp?q='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&blocknr=0' ). Also, you can name your bookmark anything - not strictly Copy Page Text.
I've implemented PDF support.
After a lengthy and careful evaluation of the current Java libraries used for PDF parsing, I've decided to choose Adobe's own one.
To use it,
1. navigate to http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/pdf.html and paste the URL to the PDF there.
2. if someone else has some seconds ago checked translated the document, you'll be presented its textual contents, in the usual multiple text areas (see http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/i2.html ) right away.
3. if it's the first time in the last few seconds that the document has been converted, you'll be dispatched to Adobe's page. After some 10-20-30 seconds of waiting, the conversion is finished and you'll be shown the textual version of the page.
4. NOW, just press Back until you get back to http://menneisyys.s156.eatj.com/pdf.html . Press the Submit button again. Now that it was just some seconds ago that you made Adobe convert your document, you'll be presented it, already in the text areas.
It's a bit convoluted but "hiding" the Adobe interface and make it even easier would have taken me too much time / effort.
Hope you'll like it
Thank you for all you useful information!

REQ: Your vote and/or hack: make double-tapping a word start selection in Gingerbread

As I posted to the Android project "issues" section [please vote it up: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14145&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars ], it's BAD for Android that you can't just double-tap a word to initiate a selection. In case you haven't used 2.3: Gingerbread's new cursor positioner is brilliant, but initating text selection requires you to tap and hold, THEN click "Select Word"...
Hoping someone can make a hack that will make this basic function work, and support the request at the above link so Google includes the function in the next update!
Not only does pretty much every other GUI support double-tapping a word, it is even supposed to be the case in Gingerbread! It clearly states in http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html that the user can
>...quickly select a word by press-hold, then
>copy to the clipboard and paste.
...and...
>Pressing on a word enters a free-selection mode
> — the user can
>adjust the selection area as needed
> by dragging a set of bounding arrows...
Even if it worked as described, IT WOULD BE BETTER to initiate text selection with double-tap (at least as an alternative). Note the precedents:
Windows: double tap selects word
MacOS: double tap selects word
Linux: double tap selects word
Early Android: double tap selects word
iOS: double tap selects word
PalmOS: double tap selects word
WindowsCE: double tap selects word
PocketPC: double tap selects word
Windows Mobile: double tap selects word
Windows Phone 7: double tap selects word [?]
So clearly, especially for potential new users who feel everything is a little "different" in Android (leading to "I think I'll just get an iPhone"), I think it double-tapping a word should initiate a text selection and reveal the bounding arrows. The pop up context menu could appear in ADDITION to the bounding arrows--then the user can select something from the pop-up or adjust the selection first...
Honestly, as someone who many people in a university/hospital system look to for mobile device recommendations, there are multiple, EASY-TO-FIX obstacles to me being able to recommend Android devices to non-geeks. Things like having to go through multiple steps to initiate text selection is one of them. People should be able to double-click like they do in every other GUI and then be delighted by the appearance of the bounding arrows!
An even worse example is that the Android email program does not allow the user to enter an IMAP root folder path, so no one in my entire hospital/university system can access email via it. (Thousands of students, residents, nurses, docs, etc, etc!) Yes, I can tell them to get the K-9 app and help them set it up, but that's another hurdle that will make people think "I'll just get an iPhone"! They should be able just to use the default email program and enter the mail server info and get their mail.
These kinds of things are why I'm moving more towards telling colleagues to get iPhones these days ... It kills me how successful Verizon's iPhone is going to be, even though the network it will use is slower than AT&T's...!
If you want to support Android being more approachable to non-geeks, please vote for:
--fixing text selection at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=14145
--fixing the IMAP problem at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1811
Thanks
Clarification!
I'm talking about double-tapping texxt in text EDITING boxes, not in web browsing!
So when you have a field where you are entering text, double-tapping a word should select the word.

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