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July 30th, 2015 03:00

Need multi-select

Need multi-select

Nice job so far folks.

Still need to be able to multi-select items (by holding down CTL for individual items or SHIFT for a selection of contiguous items).

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August 1st, 2015 00:00

We are working on CTRL support on the next release. This is what we have in mind:
1) User Toggle's on 'Ctrl' key
2) User dismiss the keyboard to do multi-cell selection
3) When done, the user brings up the KB and toggle's 'Ctrl' off
What do you think?

Unfortunately "shift" support is more tricky since the Apple virtual keyboard does not provide Key Down/Up events for Shift. We are still investigating this.

 



Wyse PocketCloud Team

August 3rd, 2015 07:00

The answer to the Shift-Click is to not rely on the virtual keyboard Shift key. Instead, you should add the Shift key along side Esc / Ctrl / Alt / Command keys on top of the virtual keyboard. Gamma VNC does this already and works for selecting a series of objects (including in iTunes where click and drag doesn't work as it does in Finder). Gamma VNC offers the Shift key along with the others. If you don't have room for all the special keys, consider a left/right scrolling bar above the virtual keyboard to reveal more keys / options buttons. Thanks.

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August 3rd, 2015 07:00

User experience for CTRL-select as proposed sounds great.

(did not realize the shift-click thing relied on up/down - very interesting)

August 5th, 2015 10:00

I found that the Android version of the Pocketcloud app does have a Shift special key under Fn. The iPhone version doesn't or at least I can't find it. The iPhone Fn keyboard has the Command key duplicated. It can easily be replaced by the Shift key without losing anything.

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