Re: [iPAQ] xstroke as pie menu (was: UWM -- the unnamed window manager)

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Carl Worth wrote:

> On Jan 4, Russ Nelson wrote:
> >
> > xstroke could be a little more helpful in this regard by recognizing a
> > pause in a stroke, and (somehow???) letting the user know which glyphs
> > are available by continuing the stroke up, down, left, and right.
> > Maybe it could draw some text above, below, left, and right of the
> > current pointer?
>
> Yup. I've been thinking of doing something like this for quite some
> time. It might be somewhat useful for prompting for characters, but I
> think it could be extremely useful for program launching.

i was considering a very similar thing too, ie. xstroke-pie menu.
you can check my java implementation of the concept i made some
time ago at

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ashida/qw/index.html

the bottom of the page is actually a java applet in which you can
use mouse button to activate the (key input) menu.

> So, I am working toward this. Help and suggestions are welcome as
> always.

i'd like to help, if you need some. i'm a programmer but have never
done x window programming. otherwise, i'll at least try what
you come up with for testing.

koji
Received on Fri Jan 4 10:22:30 2002