I have an external mouse and wen I use the scroll wheel, the scrolling is backwards. I'd like to switch it. Most laptops have this ability.
Is there a way to reverse the scrolling?
This is true for the OS and for web browsing.
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I was impressed by the way the mouse cursor is controlled in the Remote Desktop application called "Xtralogic Remote Desktop Client for Android"
It uses what I am referring to here as "touch based relative cursor control" to allow you to control the mouse movements when connected to your remote desktop PC.
"Touch based relative cursor control" means that where ever you touch the screen, you are moving the mouse. Its basically like layering a transparent touchpad on top of the screen. Your finger doesn't have to be right on top of the cursor for it to work...
here is a video from their website to illustrate what i'm talking about:
I think that this could be very handy for certain things in android like browsing the internet.
the folks over at android-x86.org already have the code to add cursor support to android, their source code is freely available.
so here is what I would like to see:
-relative touch cursor
-for use in android browser (or other parts of the OS)
-while in browser, can be controlled via some sort or swiping gesture, menu option, or triple clicking
I just wanted to get a feeling on how the xda community would be open to such an idea, and maybe see if it sparks the interest of any devs (since my android coding skills are relativity limited at the moment.).
Good idea, but you're not the first to mention this.. i just hope some one make this happen
This would be great as an option for interacting with flash apps that rely on mouse hover.
First let me define what I meant by hard to use, I use flash mainly to watch video online and our Vibrant with the GPU does a great job at it. It is the Flash interface that really annoys me: small buttons, small scroll bars, etc.
Website like Youtube and Vimeo is obviously optimized for finger use with one click on the video equals pause/play and a big enough scroll bar to skip ahead/backward. But for website like Veoh/zShare Video, it's literally Pinch-Zoom all the way to the point where it fills the screen, otherwise, the over-taxed CPU/GPU doesn't register the finger movement.
Are there short-cuts that I missed for easier manipulation of the controls?
May be like a small on screen mouse or something like that?
I connected a bluetooth mouse I had lying around hoping it would allow me to use the browser like a desktop browser with support for things like popups that occur when hovering the cursor over a link/picture, dragging flash or other controls, drag-select text.
None of these things worked. The cursor appears and I can move, tap, drag and use the scroll wheel. But it basically behaves as a surrogate of my finger. All the web controls that would require a mouse on a desktop and that don't work with my finger, don't work any better with the cursor.
Is this the expected behaviour? I tried the stock browser, Dolphin and Firefox. They were all the same.
Is there any advantage to using a bluetooth mouse? The only things I can see are less fingerprints on the screen a better precision for positioning the text cursor. But my capacitive stylus covers those just as well.
Thanks.
Tried it on Chrome? Depends with FW are you on, and kernel.
Misledz said:
Tried it on Chrome? Depends with FW are you on, and kernel.
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Does it work properly on Chrome? From what I understand Chrome requires ICS and while I played with it briefly it seemed like it still needed work on stability and I use the camera for Evernote. But I'd be happy if ICS supports proper mouse integration.
I'm using Task 14 with Pershoot's kernal.
Thanks.
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I connected a bluetooth mouse I had lying around hoping it would allow me to use the browser like a desktop browser with support for things like popups that occur when hovering the cursor over a link/picture, dragging flash or other controls, drag-select text.
None of these things worked. The cursor appears and I can move, tap, drag and use the scroll wheel. But it basically behaves as a surrogate of my finger. All the web controls that would require a mouse on a desktop and that don't work with my finger, don't work any better with the cursor.
Is this the expected behaviour? I tried the stock browser, Dolphin and Firefox. They were all the same.
Is there any advantage to using a bluetooth mouse? The only things I can see are less fingerprints on the screen a better precision for positioning the text cursor. But my capacitive stylus covers those just as well.
Thanks.
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With what you are using, I believe you are getting the expected behavior. "an extension of your finger"
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tmagritte said:
Does it work properly on Chrome? From what I understand Chrome requires ICS and while I played with it briefly it seemed like it still needed work on stability and I use the camera for Evernote. But I'd be happy if ICS supports proper mouse integration.
I'm using Task 14 with Pershoot's kernal.
Thanks.
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Not entirely sure since I don't have a BTooth mouse but will test it for you sometime this week.
I built an html-based seating chart app for use in my classroom. I need to view the seating chart in fullscreen landscape mode for the duration of the class. I've been using Chrome on Android and I have some problems. The first is that the address bar takes up too much screen real estate, and it seems the only way to make it go away is to scroll down the page. So I added some space on the page above the seating chart and put a jump link at the top of the page. But still, when my screen turns off and I turn it back on, it automatically rotates into portrait mode and jumps back to the top of the page. Any ideas for a good solution? I have control of both the web html and my phone, so there should be lots of options. Maybe a browser on Android with a fullscreen option?
Mainly asking how smooth it is, is it like apple level smooth? or is it like rolling a mouse's scroll wheel.
so it's basically like scrolling a mouse wheel anyway this could be changed?
In desktop Mode it is really jerky, much more jerky than a mousewheel scroll. The screen ist jumping a couple of lines as a minimum scroll speed. It is much smoother using the up/down keys. Scrolling on the original M5 Pro Keyboard is bordering unusable. Very bad.