Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-11 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
You mean doing web app? In that case, is not Amber a better choice ? Hilaire 2013/6/10 p...@highoctane.be p...@highoctane.be hence the bt kbd. the on screen kbf is useless. as John McIntosh told me: do an app in the webview with seaside. he was damn right. phil Le 10 juin 2013 21:23,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-11 Thread p...@highoctane.be
You can do iStackVM with Seaside providing the WebView with content and some content being Amber. Amber can be loaded in the Seaside image as SmalltalkHub shows. It is just another file library to put in there. And some Seaside-REST between the two is also an option if needed. A tad funky but

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-11 Thread p...@highoctane.be
At least, all international keyboards and funny things like Emoji would work. Try that with your self-made on screen keyboard... Also copy/pasting comes to mind along with autocorrect and text snippets support come to mind. In games, self made kbds make sense but that's because the only thing

[Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread Torsten Bergmann
Tablets are more and more used and I wonder if there is a virtual keyboard [1] for Pharo available. Thx T. [1] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_p_I7WgFsZQ/UAiI1qjZYuI/ED8/zyY0wdx_XJI/s1600/3.PNG

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread kilon
by option (a) is not a full keyboard and so some pharo shortcuts will not work. I am not against option (b) either. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-Virtual-keyboard-tp4692672p4692678.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread Igor Stasenko
:) Not mentioning, that it can be used on other platforms, which has no virtual keyboard provided by default. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-Virtual-keyboard-tp4692672p4692678.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread p...@highoctane.be
, that it can be used on other platforms, which has no virtual keyboard provided by default. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-Virtual-keyboard-tp4692672p4692678.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Best

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread Hilaire Fernandes
More than the keyboard, you need to consider how the text field widget behave when the keyboard show up. Indeed your virtual keyboard may just overlap with your text field. Then how do you move the text cursor? What about sliding it with the finger, with an additionnal widget showing it zoomed

Re: [Pharo-dev] Virtual keyboard

2013-06-10 Thread p...@highoctane.be
hence the bt kbd. the on screen kbf is useless. as John McIntosh told me: do an app in the webview with seaside. he was damn right. phil Le 10 juin 2013 21:23, Hilaire Fernandes hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com a écrit : More than the keyboard, you need to consider how the text field widget