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DS development > And the best keyboard design goes to...

#46939 - headspin - Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:53 am

pepsiman for his 8x8 tile-based keyboard in DSLinux.

http://www.dslinux.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=482

Looks great, and designed for practicality as well (tile based). Graphic designers often forget practicalities, limitations or hardware considerations of the system. It was designed by a programmer, so it follows these principles.

We need a simple ndslib example with keyboard so people can easily integrate one. Why do I say that... hmm I need one for my app and I don't really want to write my own keyboard app.
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#46940 - Lynx - Sat Jul 02, 2005 7:30 am

Bah! it has the wrong enter key! :P

#46941 - Mollusk - Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:42 am

Headspin, I added a keyboard in PA_lib, made from pictochat's (if someone has an original new design, I'm open ! I don't like taking other people's designs...), you can check/be inspired/copy the code if you like, it's free to use :) It has all the basic stuff, with numbers, upper and lower case, etc...

#46944 - headspin - Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:02 am

No offence, but I prefer to use ndslib. Your work with PA looks really great, but it looks like a headache to integrate into my current source (based on an ndslib example). Thanks for your offer though. Nice use of the Picto-Chat graphics, and assortment of gems.

Mollusk wrote:
I don't like taking other people's designs


Ok, where did you get that Pictochat keyboard? ;) haha j/k
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#46945 - Mollusk - Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:37 am

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Ok, where did you get that Pictochat keyboard? ;) haha j/k


Lol, that was why I was asking if anyone had another design they could 'lend'...


I wasn't talking about using PA on that one, I know you don't want, but the code remains available to use... That's what I was talking about

#46959 - headspin - Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:38 pm

Sorry Mollusk, I was just referring to the Pictochat keyboard rip I did, and was assuming you used them graphics, which is what there for, but I was just teasing sorry ;)

BTW Your doing a great thing with PA, so don't worry about my silly humour ;)
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