Portable electronic device having touch-sensitive display with variable repeat rate
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsJeffrey Brent Kenney, Deepankar Banshilal Jain
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Abstract
A method of controlling the repeat rate of a button displayed on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device is described. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of controlling touch input on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device, the method comprising: displaying a user interface screen having at least one button on the touch-sensitive display; activating a variable repeat control mode in response to activation input; and repeating an action associated with the button at a rate in dependence on predetermined control input.
Claims20
A method of controlling touch input on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device, the method comprising:
- displaying a keyboard having at least one button on the touch-sensitive display, the at least one button being activatable by a first control input for a single instance of a text editing action;
- providing an input element separate from the at least one button, the input element being activatable to activate a variable repeat control mode;
- when the variable repeat control mode is activated:
- in response to receipt of a second control input, repeating the text editing action associated with the at least one button of the keyboard at an input rate dependent on the second control input;
- and
- when the variable repeat control mode is not activated:
- disabling ability of the second control input to cause repeated text editing action and reverting to enabling the first control input to cause a single instance of the text editing action.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a processor;
- a touch-sensitive display having a touch-sensitive overlay coupled to the processor;
- wherein the processor is configured for causing:
- displaying a keyboard having at least one button on the touch-sensitive display, the at least one button being activatable by a first control input for a single instance of a text editing action;
- providing an input element separate from the at least one button, the input element being activatable to activate a variable repeat control mode;
- when the variable repeat control mode is activated:
- in response to receipt of a second control input, repeating the text editing action associated with the at least one button of the keyboard at an input rate dependent on the second control input;
- and
- when the variable repeat control mode is not activated:
- disabling ability of the second control input to cause repeated text editing action and reverting to enabling the first control input to cause a single instance of the text editing action.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of a portable electronic device having a touch-sensitive display, causes the portable electronic device to:
- display a keyboard having at least one button on the touch-sensitive display, the at least one button being activatable by a first control input for a single instance of a text editing action;
- provide an input element separate from the at least one button, the input element being activatable to activate a variable repeat control mode;
- when the variable repeat control mode is activated:
- in response to receipt of a second control input, repeat the text editing action associated with the at least one button of the keyboard at an input rate dependent on the second control input;
- and
- when the variable repeat control mode is not activated:
- disable ability of the second control input to cause repeated text editing action and revert to enabling the first control input to cause a single instance of the text editing action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.