[Loadstone] Feature wishes

[Shawn Kirkpatrick]

Unfortunately your plan has a few major problems. Using the arrows means 
only a 4-way look around as opposed to the 8-way we have now. It also means 
losing the ability of using the numeric keys for anything else, that's a lot 
to lose. You'd lose the check point, update, and exit exploration functions 
just for a start. Not being able to use the shift key is the show stopper 
for this plan. Without that there's no quick way to make a nav mode query.
That's not to mention the incredible coding mess this would make trying to 
get a text input system in to the keyboard handling. It would either have to 
do that or use a symbian standard edit field that would cut us off from the 
arrow keys and our output system.

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Ari Moisio wrote:

> Hi Shawn
>
>  I have tried to keep current exploration mode   functionality  and only
> reduce keystrokes and erroneus movements. Could you  elaborate what
> functions will be missed with this scheme?
>
>  Long key presses sound a good idea. However old problem remainss still:
> there is still no way to 'see' further than eigth points in eight fixed
> directions with moderate keystrokes.
>
>   This new scheme will bring two powerful features, find and show area
> directly accessible to the user. It will also enable one-finger usage with
> only the joystick  to explore the map.
>
>  For even more intuitive user interface if user looks to west with key
> left same key will be used to advance to further waypoints, right arrow
> will bring back,  closer to current virtual location and when it is
> reached   revert  search to points at  east.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You can still escape from the Gates of hell: Use Linux!
> -- 
> mr. M01510
>
>
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Shawn Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
>> This sounds like a mess from the user interface end. It would also drop
>> functionality for no real gain. The way we're trying it now is to remap the
>> keys so that a normal key press of the numeric keys would look in that
>> direction and a long key press would move the focus. I'm thinking the show
>> area function will be tweaked so it could be made to work in a given
>> direction. That way maybe a shift of a numeric key would bring up a list in
>> that direction.
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Ari Moisio wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>  New way to implement exploration mode, comments?
>>>
>>> - In exploration mode there is a text field and number keys enter text.
>>> Phone operates in two modes, text input mode and browsing mode.
>>>
>>> - In text input mode number keys enter text, backspace deletes last
>>> character and arrow keys enters browsing mode by list items in given
>>> directions as a browsable list sorted by distance as current show area
>>> does.  Pressing select will show
>>>  nearby items in all directions.
>>>
>>> - In browsing mode there is a sorted list of nearby items in given
>>> direction. First item could be 'back' to cancel previous virtual movement,
>>> in this case focus should be initially at the second item, ie nearest
>>> waypoint in given direction. Selecting item with 'select' will virtually
>>> move to that waypoint, update trip meter and return to text input mode.
>>> Pressing key2 will cancel selection and return to text input mode.
>>>
>>> - If there were some text in the text field when entering browse mode
>>> lists will be limited on items that have given string at the beginning or
>>> after space or  punctuationn.
>>>
>>> - Because backspace is used for text editing there is no more shifted
>>> keys in exploration mode.
>>>
>>>
>>>  You can still escape from the Gates of hell: Use Linux!
>>> --
>>> mr. M01510
>>>
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