Closed emily-phet closed 10 years ago
Please provide debug information, accessible via the About dialog.
Debug Info:
Name: Concentration URL: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phet/dev/html/concentration/1.0.0-rc.2/concentration_en.html Version: 1.0.0-rc.2 Features missing: touch, webgl, fullscreen Flags: msPointerEnabled User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0; Touch; .Net4.0E; .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Tablet PC 2.0; ASU2JS) Window: 2277x1122 Pixel Ratio: 1/1
This is apparently an Asus Windows 8 laptop with a touch screen. Holding down your finger on a feature is like right clicking the mouse, and pops up a context-sensitive menu (what @emily-phet is calling a "dropdown box").
This is a general issue for all sims.
Touch settings can be configured on Win8. Here are the instructions: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/touch-pen-settings-frequently-asked-questions
@emily-phet, could you try changing the settings to see if you can either disable 'press and hold', or change it to something other than right-click?
@emily-phet wrote:
I'll bring the laptop to status tomorrow.
From what I can tell, you can adjust the use of 'press and hold' resulting in right click (turn it off completely, require holding longer, etc), but you can't change it to something else. So a user would have to completely disable in all instances the ability to have a touch action result in a right click in order to stop it from happening in the sim.
As @emily-phet mentioned, there is no way to turn off the Win8 "Press and Hold" feature on a per-application basis. If you turn it off, or change the Speed/Duration settings, then it affects the entire computer. See control panel screenshot below.
Unfortunately, this is the only workaround for this issue. Events are not received by the browser/simulation until after this feature is exercised by the window manager, so we have no way to circumvent it or program around it in the simulation.
Nothing we can do about this. Closing as "will not fix".
Probably not a big deal, but when you use the Windows 8, and hold your finger on something for a few seconds, a dropdown box of options appears ("back", "select", etc.). The "back" takes you out of the sim.
This happens when using any sim feature, but since students are likely to push down the dropper button for long periods of time, they are probably going to see this drop down box. Would be nice if there was a way to disable this...