Track pad cursor?

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Hey desire fans

I've been wondering if it's possible to use desire's optical track pad more like a trackball on nexus one - not like the link-to-link jump but to get normal cursor for selecting text etc.

Does anybody think that would work?

if you are using sense then you can simply hold down on text you want to select, a magnifying glass will even appear for precision, and you can then extend your selection with 2 large arrows - pretty simple there

if you are not using sense (froyo i presume) then in a browser or gmail etc go to menu -> more and select text, you can then move your trackpad and it will be displayed as a cursor in which you can select text

hope this helps

If you mean when editing or entering text, you can do the following on the Desire (or probably any Sense UI phone with a trackpad):

• gently swipe left / right / up / down over the trackpad to move the text cursor,
• long-press (click) the trackpad to pop-up a menu with several options (select all, copy all, start selecting text, paste, etc),
• after choosing "select text", the text cursor will slightly alter its appearance, and then swiping in any direction will create an expanding text selection; long-press it once more to perform Copy or Cut operations with the selected text, or to simply stop selecting text in case you changed your mind.

As the previous poster said you can usually select text using touch screen actions as well, but using the trackpad can be more accurate or just plain easier.

Enjoy

Thanks guys!

It'll make my life easier!

Ultimately what I'm looking for is just to get a normal mouse cursor - it's not just about selecting&typing in text - you can do so much more...

Is it possible to flash nexus one rom to desire? Would track pad start working as trackball then?