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DS development > DS Touchscreen Keyboard

#47924 - Lordieth - Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:43 pm

Hi everyone, I hope i've got the right section for this...

I created a graphical touchscreen keyboard, which was actually intended to be used with DSlinux, sadly, they're now using a different method (tiling I believe) which means it hasn't been used, which is am awful shame, because i've put many hours into it, and feel it should be used if it'd help someone, so I'm offering it for free use to anyone that's developing for the DS.

http://img281.imageshack.us/img281/1597/dslinuxkeyboard7dq.png

(How it Looks)

You'll find all the files you'll need in this zip, standard, caps, depressed standard, depressed caps.

http://home.ripway.com/2005-5/315835/DslinuxKeyboard2.zip


Enjoy.

#47973 - Mollusk - Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:07 pm

hey, pretty nice keyboard ! Can't you change it to tiled format ??

I'm looking for a keyboard graph for PA_lib (the one I use looks 'a lot' like pictochat...), do you think we could use this one (which is much nicer) ? :p

#47995 - LOst? - Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:33 pm

Looks great. I like it!
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#47996 - Lordieth - Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:37 pm

Mollusk wrote:
hey, pretty nice keyboard ! Can't you change it to tiled format ??

I'm looking for a keyboard graph for PA_lib (the one I use looks 'a lot' like pictochat...), do you think we could use this one (which is much nicer) ? :p


Help yourself :)

As regards to the tiling, i'm not sure, you'd have to ask Pepsiman, who's doing most of the work on DSlinux, it wasn't explained very clearly to me why mine couldn't be used.

#48011 - tepples - Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:56 pm

Apparently, in a tile-based display mode, it's easiest to replace sections of the screen that are whole number multiples of 8x8 pixels in size. For instance, a good size for a single key would be 16x16 pixels.
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#48054 - Mollusk - Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:34 pm

Thanks tepples, I know that (that's how I used pictochat's), but I didn't check if this one was a multiple or not

#48058 - Lordieth - Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:37 pm

Mollusk wrote:
Thanks tepples, I know that (that's how I used pictochat's), but I didn't check if this one was a multiple or not


I didn't design the keyboard for tiling in mind, as the method that was currently being used at the time was more flexible, so I was more concerned with the look of it than compatibility with other methods.