Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard

2009-03-16 Thread Johny Tenfinger
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 14:53, Al Johnson  wrote:
> Possibly - it generally works for me, but I have a long history with resistive
> touchscreens. You need to keep enough pressure for it to be a continuous swipe
> rather than 2 or more events. The default layout has enough dead space at the
> sides to start the stroke in, which may help. Alternatively you could add a
> backspace key to the layout as there is in the terminal keyboard.

I don't have history with touchscreens, but it's working to me too.
It's only about keeping enough pressure.

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Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard

2009-03-16 Thread Al Johnson
On Sunday 15 March 2009, Robin Paulson wrote:
> ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's
> keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup).
> the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time
> i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a
> letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating,
> selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters.
>
> i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing
> this well? it's intensely frustrating to use

Possibly - it generally works for me, but I have a long history with resistive 
touchscreens. You need to keep enough pressure for it to be a continuous swipe 
rather than 2 or more events. The default layout has enough dead space at the 
sides to start the stroke in, which may help. Alternatively you could add a 
backspace key to the layout as there is in the terminal keyboard.


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Re: deleting characters on raster's keyboard

2009-03-15 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:34:58 +1300
Robin Paulson  wrote:

> ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's
> keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup).
> the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time
> i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a
> letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating,
> selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters.
> 
> i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing
> this well? it's intensely frustrating to use
> 
> it's got to the point where i want to ditch the thing and go back to
> my hideous panasonic, which despite it's many failings at least it
> usable for typing
> 
> cheers
> 

install these, they seem more usable to me:

http://www.opkg.org/package_144.html
http://www.opkg.org/package_106.html
http://www.opkg.org/package_101.html

Franky

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deleting characters on raster's keyboard

2009-03-14 Thread Robin Paulson
ever since i've had my freerunner, i've had problems using raster's
keyboard (the one with dictionary lookup).
the biggest issues are the swipes for space and backspace - each time
i try to do either of them, i generally unintentionally press a
letter. deleting one character usually becomes very frustrating,
selecting then trying to delete unwanted letters.

i assume i'm doing something wrong - is there a technique for doing
this well? it's intensely frustrating to use

it's got to the point where i want to ditch the thing and go back to
my hideous panasonic, which despite it's many failings at least it
usable for typing

cheers

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