What to do with long press? (was Re: Set DoubleClickInterval very low!)

[J. Landman Gay]

Well, if I said "only" I shouldn't have. It's used to select text, and a 
long press on an embedded link usually shows the full URL along with a list 
of options on what to do with the link (copy, open, save to disk, etc. ) 
Long pressing a word in my ebook reader puts up a mini menu above the 
selection allowing me to look up the definition, add a bookmark or save the 
selection as a link to a margin note. Long pressing any 7 or 10 digit 
number usually shows an option panel offering different phone or contact 
actions. There are probably others I haven't remembered offhand.

Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



On August 4, 2016 11:48:05 AM Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> 
wrote:

> J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>  > Note that on Android double clicks are almost unheard of. Android
>  > uses a long press for alternative actions.
>
> ...as long as that alternate action is a tooltip ("toast"). :)
>
> I was thinking about long press recently with an app I'm making, and it
> reminded me of our earlier discussion about that gesture.  I'd seen
> cases where long press had been used to provide a contextual menu, and
> you noted that more recently it's used only to display toasts.
>
> The most recent Material Design guidelines very explicitly support your
> assertion, with the only thing they say about long press being that it
> should not be used to provide a contextual menu.  But they don't
> describe what it should be used *for*.
>
> The older Android Design Guidelines appear to have been removed from the
> dev site (if someone can turn them up please share the URL), so we're
> left with no official guidance as to what we should be doing with long
> press other than just as a mobile equivalent of tooltips.
>
> What is the iOS recommendation for long press?  Does it differ
> significantly from their more recent hard press?
>
> What do you folks do with long press?
>
> Supporting it turned out to be pretty easy. Now I'm just unclear as to
> what I should be doing with it beyond displaying a label usually too
> small to be read beneath my fat thumbs.
>
> PS: Anyone here make a HIG-savvy toast widget for LC?  Does iOS have a
> similar object?
>
> And is there a way to make mobile-savvy menus from LC popup menus, or do
> we need to roll our own for those too?  Making them is merely tedious
> but not difficult, but the animation to reveal them is something that
> takes some effort to try to get right.  Might be nice to see supported
> in the engine, so newcomers making mobile apps can enjoy the same
> benefits LC provides for desktop apps....
>
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Systems
>   Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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