Ipad Emulator Mac Two Finger Scroll

Apple provides a powerful suite of development tools. Emulator on opposite sides of where you clicked to represent the two fingers' position. You can move the two fingers in tandem; this is useful for two-fingered scrolls.

Steve Troughton-Smith this morning to show-off how you can use two fingers to move about text on the iPad while using the Smart Keyboard. Essentially, you just tap with two fingers within a block of text, and then you scroll throughout the document using two fingers, much you would using a trackpad. Additionally, you can double tap with two fingers to select the current sentence, and triple tap to select the current paragraph. In composition apps such as Ulysses, this is particularly useful as it allows you to navigate exactly to a point in your text where you want to make revisions, add additional content, and more. One important thing to note is that the usefulness of this feature largely depends on the app you are using. For instance, if an app doesn’t use the built-in iOS text APIs, you won’t be able to use this feature.

Ultimately, the two-finger text navigation feature is similar to long-pressing on the software keyboard’s space bar to move about text, but that doesn’t work with the iPad Pro’s Smart Keyboard. Here’s how Apple describes this iPad text selection feature on its: Turn your keyboard into a trackpad • Touch and hold the keyboard with two fingers until it turns light gray. • Move the insertion point by dragging around the keyboard.

• To select text with drag points, continue holding the keyboard until drag points appear on the insertion point, then move your fingers. • To use the trackpad to move the insertion point, drag the insertion point to a new location before drag points appear. This feature was originally added to iOS a few years back, but judging by the responses to Smith’s tweet, not many people know about it. For a look at how this feature works in real-world usage, check out Smith’s quick video below. Did you know about this feature? Astrill vpn client download for mac. Let us know down in the comments. I can tell from a bunch of iPad reviews that a lot of people don’t know this, so here’s a pro tip: use two fingers to select text and move the insertion cursor around when editing text.

It’s almost as good as a physical trackpad — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith).