{"id":2262,"date":"2010-10-04T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2010-10-02T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T19:19:53","slug":"text-editing-with-swype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Text Editing With Swype"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Swype keyboard is brilliant for quickly typing text, but you may think that it falls far short when it comes to editing that text. Au contraire, mon frere<\/em>!
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\nSwype features a very keen text editing screen. It’s a perfect substitute for a trackball or direction keys on phones that lack such pointing devices, phones like the Droid X!<\/p>\n

Refer to my book for directions on setting up Swype as your phone’s preferred onscreen keyboard. Once active, you can set text-editing mode by dragging you finger from the Swype key to the the SYM key, as illustrated in Figure 1.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Activating the Text Editing mode.<\/p><\/div>\n

After successfully dragging your finger, the keyboard changes into Text Editing mode, shown in Figure 2.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. Swype's Text Editing mode.<\/p><\/div>\n

Unlike how you normally use Swype, the text editing keys are punched individually, more like a traditional keyboard.<\/p>\n

Most of the key functions should be obvious to you. Remember, the object is to edit text, not to write anything.<\/p>\n

The arrow keys move the cursor around in your text, up, down, left, right.<\/p>\n

Page Up and Page Dn move the cursor up or down about 4 or 5 lines of text.<\/p>\n

Home and End move the cursor to the start and end of a line of text, respectively.<\/p>\n

To select text, you can use the Select Text button, then the cursor keys to mark a text block. Or you can use the Select All button to select all the text. The Cut and Copy buttons then work to cut or copy the text; the Paste button pastes text.<\/p>\n

Some of the keys may not have obvious functions:<\/p>\n

\"\"The Cursor Jump key is a mode key, which can be on or off. When it’s on, the arrow keys jump in larger than one-character increments: Up jumps to the start of the document; Down jumps to the end; Left acts like the Home key; and Right acts like the End key. Touch the Cursor Jump key again to deactivate Cursor Jump mode.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Tab key works like the Tab key on your computer. Touching this key hops the cursor over one tab stop in a document. I don’t really see how this is useful, but the key is there nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Delete key gobbles up text to the right of the cursor. It works like the Delete key on a PC, or the Del [X] key on a Mac. (The Delete key on a Mac keyboard is the Backspace key on a PC keyboard.)<\/p>\n

\"\"Can you guess this key’s function by its icon? Probably not. My first guess was Delete Line. No. It’s the Delete Word key; pressing this key gobbles up the first word to the left of the cursor, or the last word on the previous line when the cursor is at the start of a line of text.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Backspace key deletes the character to the left of the cursor, just like a traditional Backspace key on a computer keyboard. In fact, the Backspace key is the same Backspace key (and in the same spot) as found on the regular Skype keyboard.<\/p>\n

There are also the Enter and Space keys at the bottom of the Text Editing keyboard (Figure 2). They use the same key icons as the regular Swype keyboard.<\/p>\n

\"\"To exit the Text Editing keyboard, and return to normal Swype keyboard operations, touch the ABC key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swype keyboard is brilliant for quickly typing text, but you may think that it falls far short when it comes to editing that text. Au contraire, mon frere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}