Something to consider would be a two level hierarchy rather than one flat file.
clustering entries into a few buckets means shorter searches for a given logon credential. Ron K Jeffries 805-567-4670 mobile On Jan 13, 2015 4:34 AM, "Paul Boddie" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 13. January 2015 04.34.57 Werner Almesberger wrote: > > Paul Boddie wrote: > > > I like the availability of both tapping and sliding, the former being > > > useful when the latter starts to get impractical (perhaps due to an > > > excess of credentials to manage). > > > > Hmm, I'm more thinking of the opposite use case: slide for large > > distances, tap if you're just one or two entries away. > > So was I, but I think I didn't communicate that very well. ;-) > > What I meant was that with a lot of items in the menu, you need to cover a > lot > of ground quickly, and that's where sliding is useful, but the relative > imprecision of sliding needs to be complemented with another mechanism, > which > is what you provide tapping for. > > Initially, I thought you'd effectively provided a physical scrollbar, but > from > what you've written, I guess it's more like a scrollwheel, which is a good > compromise and would work a lot more nicely with long menus. > > [...] > > > Getting all these parameters right will certainly require some more > > fiddling. At the moment, the biggest nuisance is the automatic > > calibration of the sensor (fw/2014/touch.c:normalize) that kicks in > > whenever there is fairly static input for a while, the idea being > > that this means that the sensor is idle. > > > > Alas, the algorithm can sometimes be fooled to calibrate while the > > sensor is being actuated (or exposed to some temporary distortion of > > the field), which means that sensing will be very confused for a > > while. The problem sorts itself out by just letting Anelok rest for > > something like half a minute, but still ... > > Yes, all the usual fun of working with sensors! > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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