Illume multitap keyboard

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Tue Aug 5 13:16:05 CEST 2008


On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:45:26 +0200 Michael Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> babbled:

> Am 05.08.2008 um 09:33 schrieb Simon Kagstrom:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:27:19 +1000
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:
> >
> >> as such - with fuzzy matching (dictionary lookup), if you have this:
> >> [A B] [C D] [E F]
> >> [G H] [I J] [K L]
> >>
> >> on a touchscreen - it is in fact inferior to:
> >> [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]
> >> [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L]
> >>
> >> why? well if you press your finger exactly in the middle between A
> >> and B - the dictionary lookup (think of it as t-9, but it's not)
> >> covers both A and B as possibilities.
> >
> > OK, then I had misunderstood how the dictionary lookup really works.  
> > In
> > that case I agree that the current implementation is better.
> >
> > However, is the dictionary-based lookup enabled in the FSO image? I've
> > tried the keyboard a bit there, but I don't see the effect described
> > above with words in plain english.
> 
> I built the milestone at a time where Raster was revamping the  
> keyboard, that's why dictionary prediction is not available in illume  
> as per FSO milestone2. I'm going to push an updated version into the  
> FSO feed, when it's done in Illume.

yeah. it's not there. it need to be redone - but this time i'm going to make it
cleaner and leaner. :)

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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>




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