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This is the best result until now. Any suggestions are welcome.
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It looks good. Can't you strech rows 1 and 2 to full width so that you gain even 1 pixel per key?
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#125
Originally Posted by knarf View Post
how about this?
I just had an interesting idea. what if the top row were numbers when in CAPITALS mode (shift key on) but it was the most used extras in common mode. e.g.
comma and fullstop and question mark etc shown with common letters and numbers shown with capitals


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2012-10-23 , 00:38
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The default vkb includes some punctuations, actually the most useful punctuations - period, comma, question mark, and exclamation point. It would be good to retain at least the most commonly used punctuations. A good example would be the Maliit vkb, see how period and comma is at the bottom.
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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
This is the best result until now. Any suggestions are welcome.
What is the problem to move some of the symbols on the same row the space is? I know this last row is not drawn by vkbrenderer, but by the upper layer, so what? we have both sources so it shouldn't be a problem to have different layout for landscape/portrait. Also keep in mind languages with more than 28 letters in their alphabet.

Otherwise what you've achieved looks pretty good.

EDIT:

A wild idea:

Add another property to vkbrenderer class, lets name it "keys-special", which contains an array of chars. For every char in that array, create a button (from him-western-...) right to the spacebar. Treat those buttons the same way space button is treated. That way ABI will be kept, i.e. if vkbrenderer class does not expose such property, do nothing. I hope you got the idea, I can elaborate if needed.
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2012-10-23 , 06:35
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#128
Originally Posted by kent_autistic View Post
The default vkb includes some punctuations, actually the most useful punctuations - period, comma, question mark, and exclamation point. It would be good to retain at least the most commonly used punctuations. A good example would be the Maliit vkb, see how period and comma is at the bottom.
How do you switch between languages in maliit?!?
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Originally Posted by nicolai View Post
This is the best result until now. Any suggestions are welcome.
- Add 5th, topmost row, with digits or symbols/punctuations (switching with shift);
- "1#+" button next to space can now show other symbols, there will be space for even rarest and weirdest;
- Move "M" one row down, next to "N" (there will be place for it, because that ";:-" button is not needed with 5th row);
- Stretch buttons as much as You can (each pixel counts).

Or, instead of reinventing the wheel, take best examples from industry and mimic them (iOS, Symbian, Meego, Android, etc).
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Originally Posted by artpra View Post
- Add 5th, topmost row, with digits or symbols/punctuations (switching with shift);
- "1#+" button next to space can now show other symbols, there will be space for even rarest and weirdest;
- Move "M" one row down, next to "N" (there will be place for it, because that ";:-" button is not needed with 5th row);
- Stretch buttons as much as You can (each pixel counts).

Or, instead of reinventing the wheel, take best examples from industry and mimic them (iOS, Symbian, Meego, Android, etc).
There is a problem that keyboard consists of two parts. And adding a fifth row on the top will mean a rework of all keyboard definitions. Which we'd better skip if possible.
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