Hi,
I came to notice that all the google widgets are losing the default menu controls. For example (TextView and EditText) should have atleast default options for selecting the text, copy,paste and clear the text. Which is very essential.
Or really am i missing to locate the shortcuts ?

If not so and if google have missed it accidentally. Is there any provision to add these menu to the widgets directly.. Im not asking about my application bcoz i can implement in my apps. But im asking for default applications and other applications so that whoever uses textview will get these menus added.. So that if i find a text to copy from some views and make use of it there is no need for retyping the whole message..


Looking for suggestions and help how to overcome this...

There is no clipboard object in android so all copying and pasting would have to be implemented by the developer. Another reason why EditText does not come with copy/paste functionality is that EditText is a view and menus are activity specific. Checking every time a view is selected whether or not it is an EditText and then adding menu items for copying and pasting to the activities menu based on that is guaranteed to be slow.

faldureon wrote:There is no clipboard object in android so all copying and pasting would have to be implemented by the developer. Another reason why EditText does not come with copy/paste functionality is that EditText is a view and menus are activity specific. Checking every time a view is selected whether or not it is an EditText and then adding menu items for copying and pasting to the activities menu based on that is guaranteed to be slow.

I could understand what you are trying to explain. We can have our own shortcut menu written for a edittext in our application but what i need is that shortcut should be present in all the edittext.. How google missed that option. If i wanna copy something from a view in other application so that i could fed that as input for some other application how could i ? The only thing is i have to retype all the things.

Hey guys,

I think (hope) there will be such a feature, not to hard to implement a text-clipboard for the developers.
Perhaps we will be able to drag-drop texts with touch-functionality in the final versions of the sdk/androidOS

Regards,
plusminus

plusminus wrote:Hey guys,

I think (hope) there will be such a feature, not to hard to implement a text-clipboard for the developers.
Perhaps we will be able to drag-drop texts with touch-functionality in the final versions of the sdk/androidOS

Regards,
plusminus

If so in the final version then it will be really useful for all. so we have to wait for the final version to have this feature?

Hello Katharnavas,

I don't know (hope not), I also do not have a secret contact at google

Regards,
plusminus

plusminus wrote:Hello Katharnavas,

I don't know (hope not), I also do not have a secret contact at google

Regards,
plusminus

Let it not be ? But let us hope for the best !

Katharnavas wrote:

plusminus wrote:Hello Katharnavas,

I don't know (hope not), I also do not have a secret contact at google

Regards,
plusminus

Let it not be ? But let us hope for the best !

I meant "I hope that we do not have to wait long for this"