Some of you might recognize the keyboard from your fruit products. The Send button should actually be a Return button for multi-line texting, but I lifted the wrong snapshot.
Now for the more painful part: Going back and forth between landscape and portrait.
Wow great!! This would be nice if someone can write an application add on to the OS for SMS using Accelerometer to switch the view and many more possibility.
Some of you might recognize the keyboard from your fruit products. The Send button should actually be a Return button for multi-line texting, but I lifted the wrong snapshot.
Now for the more painful part: Going back and forth between landscape and portrait.
Handwriting or a T9 board would be nice too in portrait mode...
I can't speak to handwriting, but T9 has been a small blip on my radar for some time. It needs to happen, and if it hasn't by the time I'm ready , I'll be giving it a go.
Wow great!! This would be nice if someone can write an application add on to the OS for SMS using Accelerometer to switch the view and many more possibility.
I'm mildly optimistic about PR1.2 and what it could bring to messaging. Here's why:
The Portrait Mode hooks have been in the OS from the beginning, obviously the Phone app is using them.
There's been screenshots of a rumored portrait virtual keyboard.
There's also a rumor that the browser has improved portrait support.
The actual conversation portion of the Conversations app is already an embedded Mozilla window.
These four items could be a recipe for portrait mode messaging. And by rumor I mean that people have analyzed the released PR1.2 SDK, and I also believe there's a bullet point change log somewhere. And I'm sure Bugzilla has even more info. But obviously none of this information would tell us anything about changes to their proprietary UI's. Yet there is a rumor that the mediaplayer can now support other extension plugins, but the others were already open source, so...
Nokia's portion of the Conversations app I've been focusing on uses html/css/javascript. The screenshots I've shown here are from C code and other types of configuration files. I do plan on sharing, but unless I do some major hacking in other places, what I've been doing will not likely be part of any integrated functionality.
Why then am I doing what I'm doing? Just because.
I've recently posted my heinous Python equivalent of what I'll probably be using for the keyboard code. It's a port from the Maemo 4 virtual keyboard example.
I hope I answered your question in there somewhere.
Did I say painful? I'm not sure that quite describes it. It's rotating, but I'm done for now. I'm parenting for the next week. After that, I'll clean up and post.
This comes from the same guy that understands it will never be available? Btw, there are laptops that fit in one hand and in a jacket pocket, yes there are laptops using 3G chips AND can send txt msgs, just because yours doesn't, means that none do, I don't see the point. My point was that this is NOT a phone. It's an Internet Tablet *capable* of making calls. If you wanted to text vertically, maybe you should've got a cellphone. I don't care how many people whine about this lack of feature, those people represent the minority. The way I see it, the N900 was never meant to be able to send a quick txt msg. Perhaps you should save a couple of pre-written sms template, or wait until you can use both hands to type. If urgent then make a call instead.
sounds like he wants to keep one hand on the wheel while driving
Did I say painful? I'm not sure that quite describes it. It's rotating, but I'm done for now. I'm parenting for the next week. After that, I'll clean up and post.
Can you please tell me how do you put an Avatar? on the txt thing.. on my N900 it says, " user " and it has a thing to put a picture on it. But i dont know how to do it! I wanted to put my picture and my name on it.
Can you please tell me how do you put an Avatar? on the txt thing.. on my N900 it says, " user " and it has a thing to put a picture on it. But i dont know how to do it! I wanted to put my picture and my name on it.
thank u!
Sorry, but I'm a little confused. Are you talking about programming or do you just want to know how to get your name and Avatar into your Conversations? The latter is done through Contacts: Go to the "My information" menu item and edit your name. For the Avatar, keep clicking on the image area until you get to the image selection/browse dialog.
If you were talking about programming, hold tight, I'll be posting information here as soon as I can, but I have to finish my taxes, and I also go into parenting mode today. But I do have good stuff to share, and I'm trying to get it out no later than Friday. The last week has been very educational, and I was surprised that I made as much progress as I did. Stay tuned.
Sorry, but I'm a little confused. Are you talking about programming or do you just want to know how to get your name and Avatar into your Conversations? The latter is done through Contacts: Go to the "My information" menu item and edit your name. For the Avatar, keep clicking on the image area until you get to the image selection/browse dialog.
If you were talking about programming, hold tight, I'll be posting information here as soon as I can, but I have to finish my taxes, and I also go into parenting mode today. But I do have good stuff to share, and I'm trying to get it out no later than Friday. The last week has been very educational, and I was surprised that I made as much progress as I did. Stay tuned.
I'm talking about the name you have on conversations. I edited my name on " my information " and it's the same. when i go to conversations i have the name " user " instead of my real name.. I dont know how to change it. The avatar it worked. But on conversations i dont have avatar. I think for that you have to teach me some programming. lol
, I'll be giving it a go.
