[Gpephone-devel] Ptim success

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Srella wrote:
> The display of virtual keyboard is implemented by several png files,
> since employing
> massive buttons lined in vbox,hbox or table is rather inefficient, with
> obvious latency
> when switching input method. Moreover, if we resize the png file to
> adjust to the width of
> screen, the character on virtual keyboard will become fuzzy, looks
> uncomfortable.

yes that are quite some arguments. So keyboard layouts for different screen
sizes are something that needs further investigation. Scaling bitmaps is
definitely not an option.

> I wonder what mechanism is in use among the commercial phone/PDA.

I suppose most of them use a fixed size solution which is quite valid because
you have to customize software for the devices anyway.
Maybe we just do the same if we need it. I guess automatic input method
selection and an input method for devices without touchscreen is more important
now.

Greetings

Florian

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