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for modern Edge devices - double tap on IQ datafields do not ring the bell

Modern Edge devices have got a new feature: double tap „on any screen and on any part of screen“ - so Garmin‘s anouncement - do not work as announced.

If the IQ datafield has touches enabled to do something, the double-taps onto the tap region do not go through onto the native firmware.

But IQ datafields do not support double taps. So, it should be possible to let double taps through to ring the bell. Bell 

  • I think that is the desired behavior. The bell feature is mostly a gimmick anyway, the tiny speaker generating a cute little bell emulation sound to alert someone like a pedestrian you are approaching, far enough away so they have time to maybe hear it and react.... just isn't loud enough (understandably). Garmin could add a touch delay to wait to see if a double tap was performed before passing it to the onTouch interrupt handler I guess. Or they could disable onTouch for CIQ. I think we'd all prefer to just keep the current behavior. But yeah good catch about that clarification on scope on one line, and taking the time the point that out LOL

  • > The OP just wasn’t clear to me. It said CIQ fields that use onTouch don’t let double taps thru

    That's what the title says.

    The body also says:

    "If the IQ datafield has touches enabled to do something, the double-taps onto the tap region do not go through onto the native firmware."

    I think the OP is perfectly clear if you read the whole thing. (It's only 4 sentences, including the title.)

  • True. The OP just wasn’t clear to me. It said CIQ fields that use onTouch don’t let double taps thru. My CIQ fields do ring the bell upon a double tap. Those without onTouch and those with onTouch if tapped outside the onTouch region.

    now I get the ask: a quick double tap within an onTouch region should not be handled by the onTouch CIQ logic but rather be sent to the device for native handling (ring the bell). That makes sense.

  • The problem is, that there are CIQ datafields where all the field can receive a tap. For example a half width, smallest-height datafield. There is no place for a "non tap area". Or - if you set such a small datafield with a "non tap area" - who should hit this small area exactly during riding with a double tap??

    Areas that cannot receive taps of course let all kind of taps through to the native firmware...

  • Just FYI - I have onTouch in some of my fields, but I specify the region. double tap works even on my full screen CIQ data fields if I double tap in the region not included in my onTouch parameters. It also works when tapping on a CIQ field that doesn't have onTouch. This is an EDGE 1050 with the latest beta firmware. So it looks like this is fixed, at least on this device and firmware.