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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: A Beginner's QuestionRe: A Beginner's Question
From: Mike Hodson <mystica_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:02:00 -0600 On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com> wrote: > But since there is an upcoming Rockbox port for a touchscreen player, I'll > cover an idea for how it could work fairly easily: > > Any rectangular screen can be divided fairly easy into 9 segments. Upper > Left, center left, lower left, upper center, center, etc. These segments are > big enough that if you can hold the device, you can land your finger > approximately in any of them, except possibly center-center, reliably > enough. Thus, they can be treated, at least minimally, like buttons. Eight > buttons, possibly nine, should be enough to create the fundamental controls > of Rockbox for blind users, though you probably end up with a control scheme > quite far from ideal for sighted users. > I figure that you can have a sighted person do something similar to what is done for all normal phone keyboards and computer keyboards: put some sort of adhesive 'bead' or a drop of superglue or anything that won't rub off easily on the 'center' button. Look at your cellphone, there should be a raised dot on the 5. Same with the f and j keys on a keyboard. This should work rather well I would guess for alignment. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-06-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |