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12 <concept id="GUID-AE6F03EB-1430-4526-B4D0-57BC6C6029D4" xml:lang="en"><title>Touch |
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13 UI</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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14 <p>When designing a Symbian application, the UI must be designed so that everything |
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15 can be done with touch. Therefore, the design must not rely on hardware keys |
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16 (except for turning the power on and off). </p> |
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17 <p>The touch UI in the Symbian OS involves a number of specific touch components, |
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18 component and UI behavior changes, layout changes and additions to the <xref href="GUID-0D093C3D-4D85-455E-B685-064A9B25B1FE.dita">user experience</xref>. The |
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19 main differences or additions include the following:</p> |
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20 <ul> |
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21 <li><p>Resistive touch screen (HW) </p></li> |
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22 <li><p>Capacitive touch screen (HW)</p></li> |
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23 <li><p>Toolbar in touch UI (component) </p><p>For |
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24 more information, see <xref href="GUID-EB212C35-5416-4CA7-8091-61B45D78E220.dita">Toolbar</xref>.</p></li> |
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25 <li><p>Touch input (virtual keyboard, hand-writing recognition and virtual |
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26 ITU-T) (components) </p><p>For more information, |
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27 see <xref href="GUID-57B7DA8C-A62F-4C65-B754-47D9F5E76416.dita">Text input</xref>.</p></li> |
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28 <li><p>Stylus pop-up menu (component) </p><p>For |
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29 more information, see <xref href="GUID-C4E728B4-3E84-49A4-83CB-DF146420D78A.dita">Stylus |
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30 pop-up menu</xref>.</p></li> |
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31 <li><p>On-screen dialer (an application) </p></li> |
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32 <li><p>Additional touch functionality to some components (for example, Preview |
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33 pop-up) </p><p>For more information, |
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34 see <xref href="GUID-E7EFAD50-3323-49A6-A5D9-95B95F0FBF0E.dita">Preview |
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35 pop-up</xref>.</p></li> |
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36 <li><p>Touch-enabled common components</p><p>For |
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37 more information, see <xref href="GUID-BB8B3A11-0BBC-4759-A7F4-A28C9E70573F.dita">Touch |
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38 support for common UI components</xref>.</p></li> |
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39 </ul> |
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40 <p>There are two generic layouts for touch UI: portrait orientation and landscape |
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41 orientation, see the figure below. The <xref href="GUID-771AF721-E2D7-41C8-BF97-5BD30D1A28AD.dita">Status |
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42 pane</xref> in Touch UI has three variants: extended, flat and small.</p> |
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43 <fig id="GUID-81426DEE-7FBB-48C1-AB46-BCFF3944699C"> |
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44 <title>Default Symbian Touch UI layouts for portrait and landscape</title> |
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45 <image href="GUID-6285AC85-C16B-4EAF-87EB-2080B24D943F_d0e45965_href.png" scale="45" placement="inline"/> |
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46 </fig> |
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47 </conbody></concept> |