Re: iTunes like Fast Forward and Rewind Buttons
Re: iTunes like Fast Forward and Rewind Buttons
- Subject: Re: iTunes like Fast Forward and Rewind Buttons
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:40:23 -0400
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UIControlEventTouchDownRepeat
A repeated touch-down event in the control; for this event the value of the UITouch tapCount method is greater than one.
On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> Pardon me if I'm only using iOS terms.
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> OK. First off, your UIButton needs to respond to UIControlEventTouchUpInside and also needs to respond to UIControlEventTouchDownRepeat.
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> Check out the UIControl Class Reference for the nature of the Touch Events you can respond to.
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> You'll need a timer to and counter if you want to generate a faster FFWD if the button is held down longer.
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> I had to do this while prototyping the FiOS TV GUI for Verizon a few years back. FFWD and RWD had modes that were the rate of the action. You'd go from 1x to 2x, 3x and 4x and then back to 1 again if you:
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> Held the ffwd button down, released and pressed again within 350 ms.
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> Holding down the button only started the FFWD/RWD mode and kept it active or advanced to the next FFWD/RWD level if pressed again within 350ms.
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> Releasing the button did nothing to the rate. Pressing play was required to stop the action, back up 2.5 seconds and continue from that point.
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> Make sure to think this through and work on a few models to make sure it's a clean functionality design.
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> On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:53 AM, Peter Zegelin wrote:
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>> I need to implement something akin to the iTunes Fast Forward or Rewind buttons, where a quick mouse click has a different action to when the button is pressed for a longer time. I also need to link this action to a short or long press of an arrow key on the keyboard. Before I have a go myself does anyone know of an example out there?
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>> I am fairly sure I can implement the mouse click part myself but am not really sure how to go about adding keyboard support. Any ideas?
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>> thanks!
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>> Peter
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