RE: [iPAQ] Newbie Suggestion re: 'Keyboard Input'

No, you use a button press (physical button) to trigger the scibble input. Tap another physical button (one of the ipaqs) and you go into cursor/movement mode.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils Faerber [mailto:nils@kernelconcepts.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:22 AM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Newbie Suggestion re: 'Keyboard Input'
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Benjamin Long wrote:
> > Why not use the entire screen as a scribble pad (Compleatly
> transparent window),
> > activated and deactivated by a button press? Then, you
> would waist NO screen area
> > (except perhaps for something that tells you when the OCR
> is turned on)? You could
> > also fix your focus issues this way (transparent window on
> top without focus).
> All the time this discussion lasts I head just a feeling that
> something might
> be wrong with the entire idea. Don't misunderstand me, I
> think this would be
> really cool, but something stopped me from euphoria ;)
> Then I thought of the other PDAs with scribble like
> handwriting recognition and
> asked myself, why didn't they do it?
> I think I found a possible reason.
> How do you intend to handle cursor movement or button tapping?
> The whole screen is used and almost any possible way to use
> the scribble area
> is used for scribble functions (for example the simple
> dot-tap is used to
> switch modes).
> The scribble application would have to be very precise in
> recognizing and
> distinguishing between window controlling funktions (like
> button press or
> cursor movement) and character recognition. All this is
> avoided by using an
> explicit scribble window.
>
> Just my $0.02 ;)
> > Benjamin Long
> CU
> nils faerber
>
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Received on Thu Sep 28 11:36:09 2000