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Old 10-19-2009, 02:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Talking ZuneHD: Keyboard!! (ZuneBoard)
Ok so heres what ive been working on for the past 2 days...
The first 3rd party Zune HD keyboard Its easily pluggable into any app with no knowledge of how it works needed.
Go watch the vid and read more:
ZuneHD: Keyboard!! (ZuneBoard)



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Old 10-19-2009, 04:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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this looks great, but shouldnt it be in the development discussions area?
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Talking Keyboard design


Heres the design:

changes from my first design:

glossy blue type area
'space' removed on spacebar
added del button in type area
smaller type area



i just wrote roguecode then keyboard version for the sample...u can put what ever u like

Any more suggestions?

U make apps so quickly rogue! very nice!
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:20 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Looks great! You think you're going to make it able to be used the skinnier way? IE the HD is standing, and the keyboard shows above the home button?

Also, in the slow mode, will you be able to slide your finger over to another letter to choose that one instead?
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:31 PM   #5 (permalink)
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This is a good KeyBoard. I kind of looks like my phones keyboard. I have the Verizon Wireless LG Dare.
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Please. If you have any kindness in your heart, be smart unlike Microsoft and add such prewritten text as .com, .net, .org, .gov, .edu, .co, .co.uk, .info, etc..





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Old 10-19-2009, 04:41 PM   #7 (permalink)
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they have that stuff....in the browser hold the .com and you get most of those options
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Old 10-19-2009, 04:42 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Please. If you have any kindness in your heart, be smart unlike Microsoft and add such prewritten text as .com, .net, .org, .gov, .edu, .co, .co.uk, .info, etc..
you know that if you hold .com for a while some of those popout
If the keyboard is for games there is no need for .com etc. unless Internet API will be available



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Old 10-19-2009, 04:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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@rogue, that looks really nice... its surprisingly fast in your video... even tho you are a slow typer =P
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Old 10-19-2009, 05:02 PM   #10 (permalink)
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nice that looks a whole lot better then the piece of crap one they gave us
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Old 10-19-2009, 05:55 PM   #11 (permalink)
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nice that looks a whole lot better then the piece of crap one they gave us
youre tripping balls if you think the keyboard they gave us sucks. i think its awesome.
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Old 10-19-2009, 06:08 PM   #12 (permalink)
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It might be a good idea to provide some mechanism to allow apps to promote specific keys that they require (e.g. @ for an e-mail app, .com for a Web browser, etc.). Of course, the examples I gave are kind of a moot point given XNA's current capabilities. Also, for i18n purposes, there needs to be a way to enter accented and other Unicode characters.
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Old 10-19-2009, 06:44 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Right, but if Roguemat puts .com and stuff in the keyboard now, he won't have to later.





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Old 10-19-2009, 06:50 PM   #14 (permalink)
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But Microsoft hasn't said anything about letting us connect to the internet with xna. I doubt that it will happen, in all honesty.





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Old 10-19-2009, 07:25 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Sweet, this will be extremely useful for future applications. Someone should get started on a notes application since the hard part is already finished.



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Looks great! You think you're going to make it able to be used the skinnier way? IE the HD is standing, and the keyboard shows above the home button?

Also, in the slow mode, will you be able to slide your finger over to another letter to choose that one instead?
I wasnt going to make it in vertical mode. The reason is that its just much harder to type and its easy enough to tilt it to the side

Yes I am going to add that, I didnt show it in the video cuz i dont like slow mode and it currently has some bugs(also the reason why i have not added a download yet)

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@rogue, that looks really nice... its surprisingly fast in your video... even tho you are a slow typer =P
Lol, you have to remember it was really late, plus up until the video i had never typed a sentence, i had just randomly tapped keys

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Sweet, this will be extremely useful for future applications. Someone should get started on a notes application since the hard part is already finished.
I am going to be making a notepad app, with lordwin doing the gfx.

p.s. sorry about triple post guys :-/ (10 seconds after this post i found the multi quote button)

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Heres the design:

changes from my first design:

glossy blue type area
'space' removed on spacebar
added del button in type area
smaller type area



i just wrote roguecode then keyboard version for the sample...u can put what ever u like

Any more suggestions?

U make apps so quickly rogue! very nice!
love the text at the top actually...
Also, what do you guys think about the pressing image? I prefer the glow i had in the video personally. So which should I use?
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I think the glow looks nicer, but then again i think the key moving up to make sure that your pressing on the right key is more functional... so looks vs. functionality =P Looks for me
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Old 10-20-2009, 11:03 AM   #19 (permalink)
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dude, you rule.... i was going to make a keyboard for my own projects but this looks great and will save me the work.... thanks!!!
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Old 10-20-2009, 02:19 PM   #20 (permalink)
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That looks rather impressive. Not having seen your code, I want remind you to make sure that you write up good documentation on how to implement it if your intention is for others to place it in their programs.

Remember, don't assume that everyone understands that "gtkbd2ppot()" stands for "Get the keyboard to pop out". :-P
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