On 3/1/08, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:50:14 +0100 "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > i WANT to type "waste". > > i press w - but really my finger may easily hit q,e,a or s - maybe even r, d, > z > or t. as such every key has a center point. my finger will try and press > somewhere close to this center, but may fail and be closer to something else. > distance from the center point of a key will be the probability that you > wanted > that key. for practical computation u need to have a cutoff of X pixels away > and ignore any possibilities greater than that, so then u press another key. > now u are close to 1 key - but also to others. so as you type you get > something > like (a key, then a closeness value from 1 to 9 lets say, where 9 is the > closest. closeness is just a measure of distance - inverted):
I really like this idea. I think it should also use aspell (a great dict. with many words in many languages) in combination with a user dictionary. -- Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Join the FSF as an Associate Member at: <URL:http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=5774> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community