Yes I understand now. It can be done with the trackball, which doesn't require much extra mvement. I agree it isn't optimal, but I would guess that a German / Swedish specific keyboard would be a more likely solution from Google than anything else.
-- Dave On Jul 1, 2009 11:02 a.m., "Johannes Lundberg" <[email protected]> wrote: 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 p... > On Jun 30, 2009 1:36 p.m., "Johannes Lundberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wish there was ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
