Derek Pressnall wrote:
One of my favorite alternative inputs is a system callec QuickWriting (I've also seen it called qwikscript, qwikscroll, etc). The concept is that you have the alphabet aranged in groups along a circle, where the circle is divided into eight sections. Each section contains 5 characters. To select a character, you drag the stylus from the center of the circle into the appropriate section, then either go back to the center, or enter an adjacent section(s) then go back to the center. The section(s) you enter and leave determine the character selected. Once you get used to it (after about a week or so) you start to develope a "flow" for certain words and you can end up with a fairly quick input speed (faster than on-screen keyboard). One implimentation is called QwikScript for Qtopia, but I haven't seen this done for GTK yet. Check it out on qwikscript.sourceforge.net.
I did an implementation of this for the Agenda VR3 some years ago. Is one of the things that I was thinking of pulling in, as it is far preferable (imho) to an on-screen keyboard. It uses some FLTK-based libs, should be a pretty straight recompile with some adjustments for the vastly higher resolution of the device vs. the Agenda.
http://agtoys.sourceforge.net/ has the existing project. -P _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
