Two finger input methods (PyGTK demos)

[Josef Wolf]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:53:17AM +0200, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> Josef Wolf skrev:
> >On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 07:49:43PM +0200, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> >[ ... ]
> >>Not much faster I'm afraid, but a new version available at the same place:
> >>  http://www.micropp.se/openmoko/res/key2key.py
> >
> >Lars, can you please explain what you mean how this new 12-chars-per-key
> >system works?
> 
> Pretty simple, You have 12 key (3x4 array) and ether tap a key or press 
> it and drag to any of the other 11 keys - 12 functions. It's extendible 
> - If You add a column of keys You got 15 keys with 15 functions. 
> Actually plan on letting the user (and possibly apps) customize the 
> keyboard in part - that may include adding extra columns :-)

Ah, OK.  But don't this have the drawback that it is not possible to
show the positions second-level characters in advance?  So you have
to guess which key to press to find out whether the character you
look for is on the second level of the key you pressed.