Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Proposal for a better text editor
Llorean:
@Definebyte: It's not "all characters" but "each page of characters" since I believe the current method allows toggling between pages. Would being unable to tell if you need to scroll 10 characters to the left or 400 to the right be more or less useful than being able to skip between fully visible pages until you get to the one that has your character, then quickly scroll left or right to it depending on which end it's nearer?
@shotofadds: I think so the default one is *always* usable (visible on the screen, etc).
DefineByte:
I don't know where 400 characters comes into it. I was talking about four lines (maybe three would be fine) of around 30 characters. Maybe I'm not understanding you.
Currently you can't 'scroll' left or right anyway, you have to use FF/Rew, which is much slower. Surely you can't think two separate input methods for horizontal and vertical scrolling is a good thing either (which both the default and opti2 layouts demand)?
The current method needs more buttons, is over-complicated and quite slow. If extra/target specific code is deemed undesirable to deal with that then there's not much else to say.
This is all from the perspective of an Ipod Video user of course.
Chronon:
I also find the asymmetry between horizontal motion and vertical motion a bit troublesome at times (with a Sansa). Maybe a good first step would be just to switch the scroll wheel action to horizontal and allow the scrolling to line wrap like Llorean suggested.
bascule:
Agreed. Flyspray feature request raised:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/8904
DancemasterGlenn:
I still like my idea a lot, but I think that the flyspray suggestion (using the scrollwheel to go through the wrapped letters in their current layout) is a really solid step in the right direction, with the least new code needing to be written. I'd be happy with this, for sure.
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