ngTouch: Swipe easily activates accidentally while selecting text

[cleercode]

I'd like to at least be able to disable the behavior for mouse events and only use it for touch events.

[jsteenkamp]

I'm seeing related issue - when using swipeRight I cannot select text (for example in a form textarea). Also don't see $event being passed with touch events as per docs.

[justechn]

I would also like the ability to disable this for mouse events. I am getting a lot of complaints from people who are trying to select text and instead it swipes.

[jstrength]

#7467

[jzatarain]

I'm seeing that the ngSwipe directive is working even if I'm not using a touch screen.
I tested in the plunkr provided in https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngTouch/directive/ngSwipeRight
in chrome Version 62.0.3202.62 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Is this made on purpose or is it a bug?

[jzatarain]

Nvm, seems like using the 'ng-swipe-disable-mouse' attribute does the job, which I don't see in the documentation :o

[Narretz]

I'm closing this issue since the ngTouch module will be deprecated in AngularJS 1.7.0, and we will not do any more work on it. This is because touch handling is a complex topic, and there are stand-alone libraries that are better equipped to handle all the nuances and edge cases. For example, https://hammerjs.github.io/, which is also used by Angular.