When it comes to the software-keyboard, yes, that's a probable solution. But how about hardware-keyboard which I rather use. Difficult to add extra buttons to it :)
On 1 Juli, 20:31, Dave White <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
