beat me to it Eric. You access the split keyboard by holding down the keyboard icon in the lower right of the onscreen iPad keyboard and selecting split. For the longest time I had no idea that the iPad could do this.
Cheers, bob On 2012-05-13, at 1:43 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you played with the iOS 5 iPad split keyboard. In theory this is good > for thumbs on iPad landscape. > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM, David Leibs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When using J on my iPad I find that when I rotate to landscape mode I >> quickly rotate back out of that mode. The problem is that the >> keyboard is just too big. >> >> When it comes to the keyboard in our J application I must confess >> that I have a little Wolfram Alpha envy. The Alpha keyboard would be >> quite wrong for us in the iPhone though. >> >> Here is an idea that is only a little "out there", a future idea since >> Eric probably doesn't want to branch into two platforms at this early >> stage of the game. >> >> Using iDevices I have been trained to touch type with my thumbs even >> on the iPad. In landscape mode we could have a large center area and >> two special keyboards, on each each side. They would be J-centric >> (what ever that means) would be layed out for thumb typing. I think >> something like this could work because of the way that is natural to >> hold the iPad when in landscape mode. We could still even have some >> kind of small popup keyboard for the bottom that some gesture could >> trigger. >> >> I think virtual keyboard(s) are a very interesting opportunity for us. >> >> -David Leibs >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
