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Jailbreak Developer Implements iPad Text Editing Concepts [Video]

Jailbreak Developer Implements iPad Text Editing Concepts [Video]

Posted May 5, 2012 at 4:21am by iClarified
Developer Kyle Howells has implemented the iPad text editing concepts put forward by Daniel Hooper earlier today, reports iDB.

Howells has created a jailbreak tweak for jailbroken iPads that imitates the original demo video to a tee. There's precision one-finger editing, faster two finger editing, and selection capability by means of tapping the shift key prior to dragging a finger. It works pretty much exactly like you saw in Hooper's video.

Howells implementation is said to work 'extremely well' and will be released free tomorrow on Cydia. The tweak will be called SwipeSelection and it will support the iPad as well as the iPhone.


Check it out in the video below...

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Vino
Vino - May 8, 2012 at 12:57pm
Too bad this doesn't really work with any of the hand writing IME (e.g. Chinese), as all the strokes are recognized as a cursor movement... Would be good if there's a way to enable/disable it per input method, as it's working great for the English keyboard.
Kiwimike
Kiwimike - May 5, 2012 at 9:58pm
Just added swipeselection from Cydia store awesome and congrats to developer (s) !
Karen
Karen - May 5, 2012 at 8:15pm
I desperately need this thing on my ipad 3
Tim
Tim - May 5, 2012 at 2:11pm
Apple would be crazy not to implement this!
teraflow
teraflow - May 5, 2012 at 9:40am
I hope this tweak doesn't interfere with KBShortcuts, because it's a must have for me, but this one is pretty useful too!
Simonellis86
Simonellis86 - May 5, 2012 at 9:15am
Shame my new ipad cant be jailbroken yet this tweek is brill
Loki
Loki - May 5, 2012 at 8:58am
That's why jailbreaking should never be illegal!
Karen
Karen - May 5, 2012 at 5:05am
I like it....
Jingsk
Jingsk - May 5, 2012 at 5:02am
THIS TWEAK KICKS ASS!!!!
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