This is a suggestion for another mouse input mode which I believe will result
in a better overall experience since it combines panning and mouse movement
into one action. It would allow fast movement of the mouse, but still allow
finegrained control at the same time by utilizing concepts which we are already
used to.
I am new here, so I appologize if this has already come up somewhere else.
The core concept is to always keep the mouse pointer in the center of the
display on the android device. When you pan, the mouse also moves. It would be
preferable to use a marker on the client side in addition to the mouse pointer
that is streamed from the server to make it more visible.
This is not the same thing as the mouse follows pan feature already available,
since that one only warps when the pointer is moved outside the screen.
There are two issues with this input mode: First is the ability to use mouse
buttons. I suggest onscreen buttons at the bottom of the screen. Other
alternatives could be physical buttons or tapping (the last of which I myself
am not a fan of.)
The second issue is how to move the mouse to the edge of the screen (server
side.) I can see two options here, the first one is to allow panning to outside
the screen on the client side so that you can fill half of the screen with
black. I don't know how these things are implemented in the client, so it might
be hard. But I think this would work really well from a user experience
perspective.
The other option I can come up with is moving the mouse from the center of the
screen when approaching the edge. I am unsure how usefull this will be since it
might be counterintuitive.
I have seen features similar to this in other android VNC viewers where an
on-screen device could be moved around the screen and would follow when
panning. But this would be a bit different from that.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by ank...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2011 at 1:29
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
ank...@gmail.comon 3 Jan 2011 at 1:29