on screen keyboard enhaced

[Ortwin Regel]

On the actual screen that keyboard is very small. Even if you use a
stylus, you need to keep a steady hand. I don't think sliding over
fields that small would be comfortable or fast. It would be unusable
on a bus/train.

Ortwin

On 5/30/08, christooss <christooss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ortwin Regel wrote:
>> Yeah, somewhat, but I think our screen might be a little small for it.
>> I guess it needs to be prototyped.
>>
>> Ortwin
>>
>>
> http://sudharsh.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/screenshot-1.png
>
> Here is a screenshot of one of onscreen keyboard. And I don't think its
> so small.
>
> And it could be bigger if special characters (&,$,€, {,} etc.) were
> hiden. Maybe a gesture that startes at part of the screen gets you to
> special characters.
>
> I will try this in this weekend. Just mockup app. And than actual porting.
>
>> On 5/29/08, George Brooke <solar.george at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:42:41 +0200
>>> christooss <christooss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> One of selected projects in google android is Writing pad which
>>>> enables writing one word per stroke with on screen keyboard
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOyGp25sSg
>>>>
>>>> What do you think. Could this be useful on OpenMoko?
>>>>
>>>> I think its really inovative usage of on screen keyboard. I could try
>>>> to implement it on desktop machine and than when I get Freerunner
>>>> port it to OpenMoko.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> How about this (http://www.strout.net/info/ideas/hexinput.html) looks
>>> like a good idea.
>>>
>>> solar.george
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