My suggestion is when using hardware-keyboard. When I use the software screen-keyboard my fingers are already on the screen and so there is not really any extra effort in choosing a character from the popup- window that appears after long-press.
When i long-press for example "a" or "o" on the hardware-keyboard a list of alternative characters (5-10 different characters for a or o) appears on the screen. Now I have to MANUALLY choose a character from that list by touching the screen och using the trackball. That means I have change position of my hand and fingers in order to do that. This is what I want to avoid. For example: I long-press "a" to get the list of alternate characters (popup window). From this list I often use two different characters, "å" and "ä". If I could choose "å" by pressing for example "1", and choose "ä" by pressing "2" I wouldn't have to lift my fingers off from the hardware keyboard and it would increase speed of writing and make it much easier. Now I often ignore the special characters and use the "english" character instead because it's much faster. Dave: If you long-press "s", don't you get a popup-window with a list of alternative characters from which you have to choose "ß" by touching it or use the trackball and click on it? On 1 Juli, 04:58, Dave White <[email protected]> wrote: > Johannes, have you tried the long press? I have no idea about Swedish, but > I type German extended characters frequently and can do that by pressing and > holding the corresponding non-extended key... So I long press s for ß and u > for ü etc. > Was that what you meant? > > -- Dave > > On Jun 30, 2009 1:36 p.m., "Johannes Lundberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wish there was an eaiser way of selecting special characters. Now I > have to change position of my hand, lift a finger to the screen and > touch the wanted character or use the trackball. This takes a lot of > time and we Swedish people use a lot of special characters in our > language. > > Why not map each special character to a key on the keyboard. Like > this: hold "a" to get the list of special characters that's under "a", > same as before. But now the letters are labeled 1,2,3,4,5... or > a,s,d,f,g... and all i have to do is press the key that responds to > the wanted character and i dont have to change position av my hand and > move my fingers away from the keyboard. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
