Aha! That's just like one I had dreamed up, except less bloated and very
sensible. Great job actually doing it; this is very intuitive. I can see
that working really well with dragging the stylus through the buttons, with
no need for multiple clicks. That could lead to a sort of intuitive graphiti
For a german keyboard you need at least 26+10+3+35=74 signs - and what much
concepts do not yet handle are capital letters, or a shift key.
If it should be really intuitive, you'd have to use special shapes for
capital letters, because doing shift and typing the non-capital letter to do
a capital
Well,
if you have a touchscreen, why restrict to 9 buttons?
Basically, you end up in a handwriting recognition like xstroke:
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/tech/freenix03/full_papers/
worth/worth_html/xstroke.html
which also uses 9 fields. Maybe this article helps to improve your
Giles Jones wrote:
Thing is there are 26 characters in the alphabet and 10 digits,
that's a lot of shapes to remember.
It depends on which alphabet you are using. Even latin1 has more than 36
characters, as you have to include all the accented combinations in
Portuguese, French and so on.
Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric
keypads.
Maybe you can enlighten me? :)
2007/9/8, OJW [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just playing with another idea for text-entry:
http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/
The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols /
On 8 Sep 2007, at 13:30, OJW wrote:
Just playing with another idea for text-entry:
http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/
The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols /
control-characters without having to look at the screen when
typing. It
takes a while to pick-up, but should be
On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:44, Thomas Gstädtner wrote:
Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard numeric
keypads.
Maybe you can enlighten me? :)
Compared to the standard 444 for I, for S-type of keypad, it's ease of
learning/remembering the keystrokes (based
On 8 Sep 2007, at 14:01, OJW wrote:
On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:44, Thomas Gstädtner wrote:
Interesting concept, but I can't see an advantage to the standard
numeric
keypads.
Maybe you can enlighten me? :)
Compared to the standard 444 for I, for S-type of keypad,
it's ease of
On 8 Sep 2007, at 14:47, OJW wrote:
On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:17, Giles Jones wrote:
I don't see how pressing three keys for one letter is faster than
predictive?
As a contrived example, try typing http://example.com/~user; using
predictive
text
For URLs you're best providing a
On Saturday 08 September 2007 14:58, Giles Jones wrote:
For the web you can have a www button and a combo
with .com, .co.uk, .org and others which the user can predefine. You
minimise typing that way and T9 does work for the domain name, you
can hold a button to produce a list of symbols
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, OJW wrote:
Just playing with another idea for text-entry:
http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/
Hi OJW,
THat is a FUN thing, and would be even better if the letters
appeared much larger as you got nearer the end.
I enjoyed it much more than an ordinary game. I hope you keep
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