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A Better Keyboard?

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GodEater:
From reading the documentation, I don't see a way to specify the font size used - only the layout of the characters.

bascule:

--- Quote from: Mikerman on July 02, 2007, 09:34:42 AM ---
--- Quote from: bascule on July 02, 2007, 03:15:56 AM ---As for size, it will always use your selected UI font, so just pick a bigger one ;D
--- End quote ---
Bascule, do you mean that the keyboard uses the fontsize used in the kdb file? 
--- End quote ---

No, I meant what I said, the User Interface font. So whatever font you have selected for Rockbox to use will also be used in the virtual keyboard, if you are using a custom one.

I believe the behaviour is that if you are using the default keyboard layout, then the Rockbox default font will be used regardless of the UI font, but as soon as a custom layout is used, then the virtual keyboard always uses whatever Rockbox font is chosen.

Unfortunately, some of the fonts render with the characters spaced massively apart in the virtual keyboard, thus ruining the effect somewhat..., but it's worth experimenting with, as the OptiII layout is good.

GuitarRocker2562:
Thanks you guys!

Mikerman:
Wow, this one needs to be telegraphed from the tallest building--a customizable keyboard, but most importantly with the possibility of a non-miniscule font, so that one actually readily can see the letters!

I just tested this out, and it works--and the player will initialize with the customized keyboard when re-starting the player, with the kbd file in the .rockbox folder.

Many, many thanks.  If not there (and I just searched and couldn't find it), this definitely needs insertion into the manual.

Mikerman:
For others' use (not that creating a keyboard layout requires a degree in rocket engineering), I enclose a keyboard file for use with the Nimbus-12 font.  It even includes a top "page title" (I had an extra line of space within the readily visible page, with the status bar set to off), "Vkeys".  I also enclose the keyboard file without  page title, should you keep the status bar on and want all the keyboard letters readily visible (rather than on an out-of-sight page you need to scroll to).  Simply drop the trailing .txt from the file name; put it in your .rockbox folder, and play it--it will be remembered by Rockbox for the future.

This keyboard really is just a "straight through the alphabet and across the typewriter keyboard" layout.  I'm sure that there are more efficient layouts, but I wanted to try the kbd concept out.  I wonder if there is any sense to a QWERTY key arrangement when one is hunt-and-pecking on a screen.

(edit:  And attached, a version of a QWERTY keyboard as well.)



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