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

It is feasible.

I plan to start building X with Keith Packard's new render extension
soon, which implements translucency.

I'll let Keith talk further to this point.
                        - Jim

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> From: "Rich B" <rich@budlight.com>
> Date: 27 Sep 2000 17:49:37 -0000
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] Newbie Suggestion re: 'Keyboard Input'
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> I've noticed a few discussions here about getting input into the iPaq via
> utils such as xscribble as well as alternate keyboard layouts along the edges
> of the screen, etc.
>
> I was wondering if the following concept would 'fly'. It depends on whether X
> can implement translucent windows ala NextStep:
>
> Could you have an overlaying full-screen translucent window with your input
> characters in a grid, with the 'focus' window 'underneath', so you can see
> both at once? Once you were familiar with the layout of the grid, you could
> even make it more & more translucent. Does this sounds feasible?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rich
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