HTC RAPH500 user manual About TouchFLO 3D, Using TouchFLO 3D, Navigating in TouchFLO 3D, Swipe

32  TouchFLO™ 3D

3.1  About TouchFLO™ 3D

TouchFLO™ 3D gives you touch control over your Windows Mobile-powered device. TouchFLO 3D provides the following features:

•A Home screen that allows finger-touch access to the most widely-used functions, such as My Favorites, Messaging, Email, Music, Browser, and more.

•Allows you to use finger gestures to navigate screens.

3.2  Using TouchFLO 3D

You can set the Today screen to display the conventional Windows Mobile Today screen or the TouchFLO 3D Home screen.

To turn TouchFLO 3D on and off

1.Tap Start > Settings > Personal tab > Today > Items tab.

2.Tap TouchFLO 3D in the list to enable and disable TouchFLO 3D.

Navigating in TouchFLO 3D

There are different ways you can navigate and interact with the interface of your device in TouchFLO 3D mode. A quick and easy way to interact with the Home screen and the whole interface of your device is by touch. Basically, the following are the types of actions, called finger gestures, you would use when interacting with your device:

Swipe

To swipe means to drag your finger vertically or horizontally across the screen. The following are some instances when you would use swiping:

•Flipping on the Home screen

Swipe your finger vertically to flip through favorite contacts, messages, music albums, photos, and more. For more information, see “Using the TouchFLO 3D Home Screen” in this chapter.

•Scrolling

When browsing the contacts list, web pages, documents, and certain selection lists on the Home screen (such as the All Programs list), slowly swipe your finger vertically across the screen to scroll. This allows you to scroll by page and to view the content or available selections as you scroll. The direction of swiping resembles the way you move a printed document as you are reading it. For detailed instructions, see “Finger scrolling” in this chapter.

Slide

Sliding on the touch screen also involves dragging with your finger, but you need to press and hold your finger with some pressure before you start to drag. While dragging, do not release your finger until you have reached the target position.

The following are some instances when you would use sliding:

•Switching between Home screen tabs

Slide your finger left and right to switch between the Home screen tabs. For more information, see “Using the TouchFLO 3D Home screen“ in this chapter.

•Advancing playback

In players that have a progress bar, such as the Home screen’s Music tab and Windows Media® Player Mobile, slide your finger horizontally on the progress bar to advance forward or move backward in the music or video you are playing. For more information about the Home screen’s Music tab, see “Music” in this chapter.

Flick

Flicking the screen is similar to swiping, except that you need to swipe your finger in light, quicker strokes. This finger gesture is always in a vertical direction, such as when flicking the contacts list.