Symbian3/SDK/Source/GUID-165EE4DD-C9CA-430B-8377-068A4194716E.dita
author Dominic Pinkman <dominic.pinkman@nokia.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:39:03 +0100
changeset 8 ae94777fff8f
parent 7 51a74ef9ed63
child 13 48780e181b38
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Week 23 contribution of SDK documentation content. See release notes for details. Fixes bugs Bug 2714, Bug 462.

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<task id="GUID-165EE4DD-C9CA-430B-8377-068A4194716E" xml:lang="en"><title>Modifying applications to support single-tap</title><shortdesc> Symbian^3 enhances the touch interaction by providing
support for single-tap.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>
<context id="GUID-0EFB67F7-2936-4126-B13A-67402F696663"><p>S60 5th
Edition introduced touch support feature with double-tap to maintain
binary and source code compatibility with the existing S60 3.x applications.
The UI was focus driven, with the first tap for object selection (the
corresponding event forwarded to the application) and the second tap
for activation.</p><p>Symbian^3 enhances the touch support with single
tap for achieving better usability and development of platform and
3rd party applications. The supporting UI is based on direct manipulation
and is not focus driven, which means that a single-tap on the device
selects and activates an event. This change modifies the touch behavior
of certain UI components as listed below:<ul>
<li><p>By default, none of the menu items are highlighted.</p></li>
<li><p>Item specific options are displayed in stylus menus rather
than in options menus.</p></li>
<li><p>The side toolbar is hidden in the landscape layout view except
in specific applications like the message viewer and editor.</p></li>
</ul></p><p>It is highly recommended that you migrate your applications
to single-tap to complement the platform UI behavior. However, if
you do not migrate your applications to single-tap, they work the
same way as in S60 5th Edition (touch support with double-tap). </p></context>
<steps id="GUID-4DD07DEC-6017-4237-BE46-1D69E5FBD744-GENID-1-6-1-1-4-1-3-2">
<step id="GUID-9A69E5AD-E938-4092-A8C2-CB65C37C8962-GENID-1-6-1-1-4-1-3-2-1"><cmd>Include
the <xref href="GUID-2A5F78CD-F404-338E-A505-93DC30CD4A0A.dita"><apiname>EAknTouchCompatible</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-42FC6075-C1A0-3E68-8109-F6CC04CFBAE2.dita"><apiname>EAknSingleClickCompatible</apiname></xref> flags in your application's UI (<codeph>CAknAppUi</codeph> ) constructor.</cmd>
<stepxmp><p>For example, </p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">void CFileBrowseBaseView::ConstructL() //Called from framework (CEikDocument)
{
  ...
    BaseConstructL(EAknEnableSkin | EAknEnableMSK | <b>EAknTouchCompatible</b> | <b>EAknSingleClickCompatible</b>);
  ...
}</codeblock></stepxmp>
<info><p>The <xref href="GUID-2A5F78CD-F404-338E-A505-93DC30CD4A0A.dita"><apiname>EAknTouchCompatible</apiname></xref> flag enables touch
functionality. The <xref href="GUID-42FC6075-C1A0-3E68-8109-F6CC04CFBAE2.dita"><apiname>EAknSingleClickCompatible</apiname></xref> flag
enables single-click functionality on the Symbian device.</p></info>
<stepresult><p>The following illustrations show how applications behave
before and after the single-tap changes are made:</p><fig id="GUID-7015C5AD-8162-4185-801C-BEF4352B9837">
<title>Double-tap enabled: By default, UI component is highlighted.</title>
<image href="GUID-BF626AFA-F8E5-4049-BC3E-E947AD2D39A1_d0e2684_href.png" placement="inline"/>
</fig><fig id="GUID-12C4AB22-ACF7-4A43-B322-ABB39B5653DC">
<title>Single-tap enabled: By default, no UI component is highlighted.</title>
<image href="GUID-CAB2A21A-B2EE-4B49-AC97-7F70BDC95755_d0e2691_href.png" placement="inline"/>
</fig></stepresult>
</step>
<step id="GUID-CCF099FE-76F5-49AC-99A7-E834A07FD628"><cmd>Hide item-specific
commands from the application's <xref href="GUID-AC8439C7-7E57-4829-AB4B-70BC394DD66F.dita">menus</xref>, <xref href="GUID-244631CF-03F9-4C48-9802-682A76E9ECCC.dita">submenus</xref> and <xref href="GUID-E3A60844-EE37-4AF1-8921-59375C563723.dita">toolbars</xref>.
Item-specific commands are functions that are specific to an item.
For example, <b>Edit</b> is an item-specific command for an existing
contact in the <b>Phone book</b>.</cmd>
<stepresult><p>As a result, all item-specific options are hidden in
menus, submenus and toolbars and are displayed in the <xref href="GUID-C4E728B4-3E84-49A4-83CB-DF146420D78A.dita">stylus popup menus</xref>. </p></stepresult>
</step>
<step id="GUID-10C30123-1921-43E1-B39F-C41DC65991E6"><cmd><xref href="GUID-361BB951-DB74-4D83-ACFC-812383C8129C.dita">Activate items in
a list</xref> on single-tap.</cmd>
</step>
<step id="GUID-10F9F971-4E80-4D0A-90B2-7BDC9C40E0A9"><cmd><xref href="GUID-78453EBD-B4F3-4A78-AEAE-3D126DFED31F.dita">Disable stylus popup
menu in AVKON lists</xref>.</cmd>
</step>
<step id="GUID-FF167282-56A6-42F4-ABAE-5A53ECCC0E2F"><cmd><xref href="GUID-2131E679-779D-427D-BD41-47D9949A8749.dita">Disable hardware
key shortcuts</xref>.</cmd>
</step>
</steps>
</taskbody></task>