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Ideas for Better Text Entry Methods

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Zardoz:
i like obo's implication. by which i suppose i mean i like the sansa connect OF implementation. the idea of having three rows of characters, scrollable left and right (maybe even in biggish fonts) makes sense to me and would represent a big improvement over the current keyboard layout.

DancemasterGlenn:
Of course, this was already brought up in this thread, where I suggested something along the lines of obo's sansa dealie. We had some other ideas at the end, and this flyspray entry was made to serve as a starting point for targets with scroll wheels. Unfortunately, no one stepped up to code, so nothing has come of it yet. Anyone interested in this should definitely throw some patches in that direction.

To paraphrase the thread I linked to, discussion eventually led to the thought that the current interface could be used as a starting point to make a simpler input system. using the scroll wheel would move your cursor left/right, and said cursor would wrap to the next line of selectable characters when reaching the end of said line. Because moving through characters is all scroll wheel at that point, you could use the rew/ff buttons (to use the ipod as our example) to move your cursor in the text below, and the select button for inputting the characters you're scrolling through. A long select could be used for deleting characters. The final cool thing discussed was the idea of paging: having a number of different screens, one with lowercase letters, one with uppercase, one with numbers/symbols, and others with other language character sets. Only one would be displayed at a time to be scrolled through, to make getting to each letter easier. A keypress such as hitting menu would let you switch between these "pages" on the fly. This is the most important part, as it makes room for more than just the english characters.

So yeah. If anyone's crazily inspired by that idea, feel free to go nuts all over that one. Credit goes to Chronon, Llorean and Bascule (among others) for corralling that previous discussion to the above point.

NorTheBear:

Hello: I don't have a problem with the virtual keyboard as I don't write lots of texts in Rockbox. But this only one aspect and I want to draw the attention to another aspect of the existing text entry method. My prime application with the text editor is to change existing texts slightly (e.g. WPS or CFG files). By doing so,  I often get the feeling that a better toggle mechanism between virtual keyboard and edited line would accelerate text entry dramatically in my use cases.

Idea: What about a long key press (e.g. NAVI of H320) which allows immediate toggling between virtual keyboard and edited line.

Just my 5 cent to the discussion, Norbert.

Multiplex:
Maybe we need to find a key combination to allow Morse on the C200 series... (I checked the manual and it's not there - I used to love it on the H300)

Zardoz:
I would really love to see this re-jigged, perhaps along the lines of the Sansa firmware outlined by obo above. It's not something I use very often but it's too fiddly for me as is.

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