Gesture-based selection and manipulation method
OwnerChangwat Tumwattanainventor
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Abstract
A method for selecting multiple content items in a list of content items is presented. In an embodiment, the method first displays a list of content items along the first direction on a display of the computing device. Then, the method detects a first portion of gesture for selecting a first content item in the list of content items. While the first content item is selected, the method detects a trigger for a second portion of the gesture, and then selects at least one second content item based on the second portion of the gesture. The trigger for the second portion of the gesture is a scroll gesture, and while the first content item is selected the scrolling of the list is disabled. A method for manipulating multiple content items in a list of content items is also presented.
Claims14
A method comprising:
- displaying a list of content items scrollable along a first direction on a display of a computing device;
- detecting a first portion of a gesture selecting a first content item in said list of content items;
- while said first content item is selected, detecting a trigger for a second portion of said gesture;
- and
- selecting at least one second content item in said list of content items in response to said second portion of said gesture;
- wherein said trigger for said second portion of said gesture is a scroll gesture along said first direction, and wherein scrolling of said list of content items is disabled while said first content item is selected.
A method comprising:
- displaying a list of content items scrollable along a first direction on a display of a computing device wherein a plurality of content items in said list of content items is selected, each said content item comprises a parameter value in a parameter field;
- detecting a multi-input gesture relative to said plurality of selected content items;
- determining a direction and a displacement of each input of said multi-input gesture;
- and
- changing each said parameter value of said plurality of selected content items by an amount of change determined based on said direction and said displacement of each input of said multi-input gesture.
A tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, wherein when said computer-readable instructions are executed by a computing device, cause the device to:
- display a list of content items scrollable along a first direction on a display of said computing device;
- detect a first portion of a gesture selecting a first content item in said list of content items;
- while said first content item is selected, detect a trigger for a second portion of said gesture;
- and
- select at least one second content item in said list of content items in response to said second portion of said gesture;
- wherein said trigger for said second portion of said gesture is a scroll gesture along said first direction, and wherein scrolling of said list of content items is disabled while said first content item is selected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.