Yes, the ideal would be a floating window
| Re: Landscape Fitaly for T3 -- George Charpentier | |||
| Posted by Jean Ichbiah ® , Sat, Nov 08, 2003, 07:39:49 | Reply | Top | Forum |
I suppose if there were some way of "floating" the fitaly input area, so it could be placed anywhere on the screen, that would help. Could touching the viewing area reduce it perhaps, and have a small mark somewhere on the screen to bring it up again, like the number pad does in the present version? Perhaps then, as well, there wouldn't be a need to "stack" anything, since the fitaly input area would look the same regardless of the mode.
Yes, the ideal would be a floating window. This is what we do on the Tablet PC
As you can see, there is a small title bar that can be used to drag the keyboard to a given position. But this requires a windowing operating system and Palm OS is not one: It requires the ability to have the actions done in a window (here the keyboard) affecting the contents of another window (for example MemoPad on which the keyboard floats).
The only way to simulate that in Palm OS 5 is to hide the keyboard window after a tap to let MemoPad refresh and then redisplay the keyboard window, hoping you can do it fast enough not to produce flicker. In Palm OS5 and the Pocket PC, the only real windows are the Dynamic Input Area (or Input Panel), and there are severe constraints on where they can be placed. The multitasking of Palm OS6 is not needed for this and does not -- alone -- make windows possible.
Jean Ichbiah
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