Sadly the whole keyboard popup that appears when you enter a editable area, is a standard central keyboard "widget"
The sdk offers some simple variants (like numbers only etc) but nothing that could be used efficiently for j. I actually lost interest in using j on the iPhone/touch because of this reason. By the time I was switching back and forth between the 3 modes I lost track in what I was trying to achieve! I guess the power users would soon get used to it, but I just don't have the time and space to work with it. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Jul 2009, at 07:40, [email protected] wrote: > jkt> Following this with interest - even though I use iPod Touch > instead > jkt> of iPhone, I find lots of good/available WiFi access. I bought > iSSH > jkt> when it first came out - one reason was to access j, and general > jkt> admin activities on my Linux servers. > > I was curious how the iTouch's display-mapped keyboard works out > with J which is so heavy on punctuation. I don't own an Apple Touch > myself but a colleague does, so I could give it a quick try and > ssh'ed into one of our J servers. What a funnny experience. > > For those who have never seen the device: > > Since screen real-estate is so scarce, all you'll you get > displayed for tapping are some thirty "keys"; just enough > for "a"-"z" plus a bit for Backspace, Return, Space. > > For digits, you have to "mode-switch" into another map. > For some punctuation characters, you have to switch into another > map; for other punctuation characters, into yet another. > > (Think of SMS text entry or small electronic label printers with > a limited keyboard but rich symbol set.) > > When entering something like "/usr/local/src/j/engine", you have > to switch kbd maps to and fro for every single "/". > > For entering > > (+/ % #) ? 10 # 100 > > I ended up feeling I had to tap more keys to switch maps than for > actual > characters. > > Sorry, I don't have the details which ssh program I was using. Are > there > ssh/telnet programs which offer a more suitable keyboard, or is this > a central system facility they all are using? What works for you, > Joey? > > Martin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
