{"id":47501,"date":"2019-09-30T22:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T22:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/?p=47501"},"modified":"2020-05-27T02:54:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T02:54:05","slug":"upcoming-retroarch-1-7-9-menu-touchscreen-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/upcoming-retroarch-1-7-9-menu-touchscreen-gestures\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming &#8211; RetroArch 1.7.9 &#8211; Menu Touchscreen Gestures!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jq0D_l8DiEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nRetroArch 1.7.9 (scheduled for release soon) will debut touchscreen gestures for the menu for the first time! You will now be able to operate the XMB menu without needing a gamepad or overlay!<\/p>\n<p>The following gesture-like functionality is available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swipe up\/down in the left margin: scroll through current menu list by ascending\/descending the alphabet<\/li>\n<li>Swipe up\/down in the middle region of the screen: scroll up\/down through current menu list by one &#8216;page&#8217; (i.e. one screen&#8217;s worth of entries)<\/li>\n<li>Swipe left\/right: navigate left right, or change the setting value of the currently active item<\/li>\n<li>Tap left margin below top margin: Back\/cancel action<\/li>\n<li>Tap left margin above top margin (top left corner): Open search interface<\/li>\n<li>Tap right margin: select currently active item<\/li>\n<li>Tap menu list in middle region of screen: activate item, or select it if already active<\/li>\n<li>Long press active menu item in middle region of screen: reset item to default setting value<\/li>\n<li>Press and drag up\/down in the right margin: scroll up\/down through menu list (the further you drag, the faster it goes &#8211; up to a limit corresponding to keeping a cursor key held down)<\/li>\n<li>Press and drag left\/right in the top margin: navigate left\/right, or change the setting value of the currently active item (again &#8211; the further you drag, the faster it goes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RetroArch 1.7.9 (scheduled for release soon) will debut touchscreen gestures for the menu for the first time! You will now be able to operate the XMB menu without needing a gamepad or overlay! The following gesture-like functionality is available: Swipe up\/down in the left margin: scroll through current menu list by ascending\/descending the alphabet Swipe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,274,2,5,273],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47504,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501\/revisions\/47504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libretro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}