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MagicPad Editor Offers Copy and Paste

Monday July 28, 2008 6:34 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
AppleiPhoneApps.com posts a video of an upcoming text editor called MagicPad that implements its own Copy and Paste functionality.

The solution appears relatively elegant, but does appear to change some of the natural functionality of the magnifying glass. Normally, if you want to position the cursor in the proper location, you press and drag to position the cursor.

MagicPad has modified this functionality so that press and drag will invoke text selection. In order to position the cursor properly, you can still drag your finger to the right spot, but then simply need to tap again to start the selection. The embedded video shows out it works:



Of course, the copy/paste functionality only works within MagicPad itself.
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JDOG_
Posted: 46 months ago
I love how it's taken this developer just a couple of months to put this together while Apple has been at it for years.

It looks to be a pretty decent solution, and yes the magnify glass is pretty necessary. That top bar on the keyboard just makes sense. Would also be nice to keep multiple items on your clipboard to copy a few things to the same place.

Let's hope Apple notices this one--very cool.
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plumbingandtech
Posted: 46 months ago

I love how it's taken this developer just a couple of months to put this together while Apple has been at it for years.


And how long would it have take for that one developer to develop the phone, the phone OS, itunes, the app store, marketing, distribution and phone partnerships?

Honestly, just like Joszkiac(sp) said, it's about priorities. And it looks like 2.1 is when cut copy and paste's time comes up.
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bbplayer5
Posted: 46 months ago
Does this send TEXT in the email, or an RTF attachment?
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macduke
Posted: 46 months ago
Noob! It took him 5 seconds to find the apostrophe key. I can't trust a guy to make an app for my iPhone if he has hardly even used one himself.

Apple's copy and paste will use multitouch gestures and it will be great.
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mainstreetmark
Posted: 46 months ago

I love how it's taken this developer just a couple of months to put this together while Apple has been at it for years.


Really? You're that unhappy with the iPhone?

You are aware that this developer used the API and OS that Apple has spent years writing, of course, right?
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Ropedartman
Posted: 46 months ago
Nice! Just a matter of time for the rest of OS....
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deannnnn
Posted: 46 months ago
It's pretty nice.
Not sure how I feel though about loosing the ability to position the curser while using the magnifying glass.
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syclonefx
Posted: 46 months ago
I'm still trying to figure out why does it have a captcha to send an email. :confused:
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gcmexico
Posted: 46 months ago
looks pretty good...can't wait for Apples version!
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Me1000
Posted: 46 months ago

It's pretty nice.
Not sure how I feel though about loosing the ability to position the curser while using the magnifying glass.


I think the same thing... The idea of adding that row of items above the keyboard is a good idea for the actual action, however If I cant reposition my cursor with the magnifying glass it doesnt work for me. Make I could touch the screen with a 2nd finger to start the selection it would be better.

A good start, just not there yet!
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