SynthMaker

Keyboard Reader

Archive · 2005 2 old posts

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sambean ·

Was playing with Rudolfs ingenious custom font render engine and was thinking something was required to input the data without having to use the standard edit boxes (btw devs, would be good if possible to modify the edit boxes so they can be totally transparent when editing so you can use them as a mask for your own display..) Here's what I came up with:

http://freespace.virgin.net/cc.lai/tool ... Reader.osm

I've made some modifications to the font bitmap that was used so underscore is now a space.. This is just temporary so that spaces can be inserted..

All upper and lower case letters and numbers, space and backspace are implemented.

Pressing record (r) erases the last string and allows text to be inserted..

Not sure if it's the best technique for doing this.. Any comments welcome

Sam

rl ·

Indeed, text input would be the next logical step.

I think text input would be implemented best with a little help from basic SM modules. At the end it should feel like a native EditControl.

Suggestion: either a TextEdit with a custom font connector or (in the fashion of the MouseArea module) a Keyboard Area module that sends keystroke events when having the focus.

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