Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] OT?: Text entry via a circle..

[Ronja W. <ro...@wi...>]

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>   Anyone have any ideas on novel ways of entering text via a circular 
> dial?  I know the quickwriting system is out there (look it up - 
> basically a 9-piece square, and strokes to-and-from center, and 
> triagles originating from the center determine letters.  It's a 
> unistroke method.)  That seems like it *might* be able to be done with 
> a dial somehow, especially if you could detect finger presses/small 
> movements *on* the dial, but not *around* it.
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Hello,
this is my first posrt to this group. i am reading the list since quite 
a while now, but as i am not a programmer and my programming knowledge 
is limited to basic realbasic handling, so i am probably not good in 
guessing programming capabilities.
but as i think when the wave of linuxpodding is starting to roll we 
will want to have a more comfortable ways of accesssing some kind of 
text input. as nearly everybody has a little keypad with him nowadays 
(remeber the little thingy in your pocket that sometimes make strange 
sounds and starts vibrating?) i think the best ways would be if there 
was a firewire connector for bluetooth of IrDA and a java cell phone.
it works with your mac, so why not with the ipod? is there any java 
delevopper among us that is able to write such an app for cell phones? 
i think this would be really great!
then you could even develop your apps ON your ipod (as mentioned in 
this thread before)
;-)

what do you think about this? might this be possible in some time?

greetings from bavaria to all ipodders and those who are gonna be one!

Ronja