[Q]Closing apps with a gesture on screen???

[Chris1974]

I just bought a Touch phone and I like it very much. Before this I had a Prophet and I was afraid I would miss the extra hardware buttons the Prophet has.

The only button I really do miss is the "close" or "ok" button to close aplications.:mad:

I think it would be great if there could be a program made that uses a finger gesture on screen to close apps instead of poking at the x with my big fingers.:D

Anyone ever seen such a thing?

[Chris1974]

C'mon people, you know what I mean...;)

just like closing the cube by a downward swipe it should be possible to close an aplication by somekind of swiping motion across the screen shouldn't it?

Think about it...

Instead of "slide to unlock" we can call it "swipe to close" :cool:

[arkasha]

I close apps just using the phone red button!

Bye

[Chris1974]

I close apps just using the phone red button!

Bye

Yes, thats possible too, but that closes everything that is open. I would like to close only one window at a time.

example:
Lets say you are in windows media player library and would like to close it and return to windows mediaplayer itself by closing the library. If I would push the red button it closes everything including the player and return to the home screen instead of the player.

"Swipe to close" should work exactly like the "x" :)

[shaileshashar]

It would be really cool/useful to do that.

Even though It sounds easy, it is quite difficult to program this thing ( not impossible though).

[Chris1974]

Years back there was already a phone called NeoNode1 that had the swiping thing figured out. It was also windows based so maybe this can be used as a startingpoint.

www.neonode.com

[pchronos]

With TouchFLO the problem will always be with apps that have scrolling windows. How should the downward motion be interpreted ?

Close app or scroll up ?

[veeru27]

If you are not too particular abt the swipe gesture, use ZapIt ( attached)and map it to the camera button. It closes only the active application at a time.Works beautifully on my touch.

If you encounter an invalid certificate problem, download Enable_Rapi.zip from Pof's thread about CID Unlock and follow the instructions. (The sticky on the Elf Upgrading section)

[Chris1974]

Yeah, but than we would need to build a swipe to operate the camera. ;)

I would like to swipe and close without losing other functionality. The swiping motion can be anythin from making a diagonal swipe to circles or anything inbetween.

If this can be cracked there might be much more functions that can be operated in this type of manor.

Unfortunately I don't know much about building such a thing so if there is a hardcore techie out there that wants to take the challange, be my guest!!!

[vippie]

Yeah, but than we would need to build a swipe to operate the camera. ;)


That's not true.... you'll only have to make the camera start from today screen. You can still make a picture with the button afterwards. Just try it (don't forget enable_rapi)!

@veeru27: Thanks for the cab! It works great!

[amanakbar]

try search for "finger launcher"... something i posted awhile back in the general elf forum

[veeru27]

That's not true.... you'll only have to make the camera start from today screen. You can still make a picture with the button afterwards. Just try it (don't forget enable_rapi)!

@veeru27: Thanks for the cab! It works great!
vippie,
You're welcome.

[new2city]

Actually, how many of you do actually use the cube? If not many, it would be nice to have to have the slide up and down motion that launches and ends the cube, to be used to end applications instead.. just a thought...

[Noonski]

Search for FtouchFlo to configure Swiping commands.

In conjunction with

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1475699&postcount=8