Swipe left to delete last word

[maverick74]

On the on-screen keyboard, it would be nice if we could swipe left on the delete button to delete the last word!

Its not an essential feature, just a nice one!

[sspanak]

This may be a bit tricky, but I think it is possible by handling MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE in SoftKey.onTouch() then and using it in SoftBackspaceKey, possibly with a handleSwipe() function.

[maverick74]

I've been thinking about this...

Instead of swipe maybe a Tap+LongTap (as in "holding the delete") could be easier...

And if you keep holding it, it would keep on deleting one word at a time...

[sspanak]

Swipe to delete sounds good to me, there is no need to make it more complicated. I haven't researched how to do it, though.

One more thing, deleting more than one character at a time will become easier after #170, when it will become possible to select text and cut/copy/paste/delete with a single click. The selection method itself is described in a kind of complicated way, but I think I have ideas how to make it simpler.

However, as of now, I am focused on other features. This will not be released anytime soon.

[maverick74]

No pressure!

My intention is not to speed this up or something, it's just to share "way outs"
(It's also not that "you don't know what you're doing" or something like that. It's just that there are various ways to accomplish one effect and sometimes we don't remember every single one... It's my way to try to help...)

[sspanak]

No worries, I'm from the Balkans, I don't get offended for nothing. 🙂

I'm also sharing my opinion. I've seen the swipe-to-delete function in other keyboards, so I think it is intuitive and relatively easy to do. For this reason, I like it better.