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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: A Beginner's QuestionRe: A Beginner's Question
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:22:34 +0100 On Sunday 22 June 2008 21:02, Mike Hodson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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. There's an important difference with a touchscreen, though - you can't put your finger on the bump and then work your way to other buttons from there, because by the time you've touched anything to use it for alignment / guidance, you've activated it. Antony. -- Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.htmlReceived on 2008-06-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |