a new keyboard - discuss and critique

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Wed Jun 3 15:46:00 CEST 2009


On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:01:18 +1200 Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> said:

> 2009/6/3 Carsten Haitzler <raster at rasterman.com>:
> > u seriously doubt that. mis-pressing keys will also make you want to hi them
> > more accurately too. it applies to both cases. thedifference is that if you
> > are not more accurate u get zero key press as opposed to the one you wanted
> > when its a square. then you aways get a press - the question is - are you
> > so far off that u pressed the wrong key.
> 
> raster, is it possible to create triangular keys for your keyboard?

yes. just draw triangular buttons and have transparency where you dont want
them hit (on the image), use the image as he hit area and add:

precise_is_inside: 1;

so the part (alone with scale, type, name etc.). this basically makes evas use
the actual pixel alpha to determine if a point is inside the image or not, as
opposed to just is bounding region (which is normal).

nb - NEVER tested this before...

> how difficult would it be for someone to put this together, to test
> out what he's saying?
> 
> if he can't get anyone interested, maybe he'd waive a patent suit in
> our case, in exchange for it being a demo for his technology?

that's up to him, but, since i know it's patented now - i am not touching it.
willfully violating a patent with knowledge is much nastier than accidentally
violating one you dont know about.

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