sansa e200 virtual keyboard keymapping

[havic]

I find the current key-mapping for the virtual keyboard at least on the e200 to be very unfriendly.  With the current setup I easily delete a character because I want to click the menu button for down (to get to the next row) but it deletes a character. Switching between the scroll wheel and the fast forward and rewind buttons for navigation is not efficient. The 4 fixed buttons around the scroll wheel make you want to use that to navigate the virtual keyboard but it is not the cases, very counter intuitive.

I Would like to change it so that when I use the scroll wheel instead of it scrolling vertically, it can scroll horizontally so that it raps around to the next line, therefore eliminating the need for left - right key mappings.  then the 4 fixed buttons can be for delete (backspace), save, exit without save and move back with out deleting.  I think this way would be much easier.

Now I have some light scripting (vbs ,dos,and java) knowledge and want to know is this an easy task for a beginner willing to take a stab at it or do the programmers think this is a worthwhile change for scroll wheel based players? I know the virtual keyboard is universal based on my searches, but maybe there is a better way then I described but I think the current one needs to be looked into.

This is an attempt to make rockbox better, I am not bashing rockbox. Having been running it for years on my h100 and now the sansa and love it.

Greg

[Chronon]

We had some past discussion about this here: http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=17885.0

If you have ideas on how to make Rockbox better this is always welcomed.  Your idea sounds similar to what obo mentions on the first page of the discussion I linked.

[schnauzer93]

I find the current key-mapping for the virtual keyboard at least on the e200 to be very unfriendly.  With the current setup I easily delete a character because I want to click the menu button for down (to get to the next row) but it deletes a character. Switching between the scroll wheel and the fast forward and rewind buttons for navigation is not efficient. The 4 fixed buttons around the scroll wheel make you want to use that to navigate the virtual keyboard but it is not the cases, very counter intuitive.

I Would like to change it so that when I use the scroll wheel instead of it scrolling vertically, it can scroll horizontally so that it raps around to the next line, therefore eliminating the need for left - right key mappings.  then the 4 fixed buttons can be for delete (backspace), save, exit without save and move back with out deleting.  I think this way would be much easier.

Now I have some light scripting (vbs ,dos,and java) knowledge and want to know is this an easy task for a beginner willing to take a stab at it or do the programmers think this is a worthwhile change for scroll wheel based players? I know the virtual keyboard is universal based on my searches, but maybe there is a better way then I described but I think the current one needs to be looked into.

This is an attempt to make rockbox better, I am not bashing rockbox. Having been running it for years on my h100 and now the sansa and love it.

Greg

Seconded. I'd love for this to be changed or available as an option.