[linux-dvb] Re: Entering file names ...

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Reiner Rosin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I agree with Klaus on this whole Name-thing, leave it as it is ;)...
> ... ok the handy-style makes some sense, but this matrix????
> And even with T9??? I hope you made a joke ;) ... you would
> even need a TV-compatible T9 version (I never tried to enter
> Simpsons or Futurama on my cell-phone).
> The only thing I could imagine is to shorten the number of letters
> available for entering a name (uppercase/lowercase).
> But, at all, don't touch this function please, Klaus ;)
> 
> bye, reiner

Don't worry ;-)

But of course that can't keep anybody from implementing alternative
ways in their own version of VDR - that's the beauty of Open Source :-)

Klaus

> 
> >On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 03:56:25PM +0000, Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
> >
> > > Imagine you have a matrix like this:
> > >
> > >  | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
> > > -|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
> > > 0| a | h | o | v |   |   |
> > > 1| b | i | p | w |   |   |
> > > 2| c | j | q | x |   |   |
> > > 3| d | k | r | y |   |   |
> > > 4| e | l | s | z |   |   |
> > > 5| f | m | t |   |   |   |
> > > 6| g | n | u |   |   |   |
> > >
> > > For entering 'l' you would press 1-4, for a 'p' 2-1 ...
> > > You can enter every letter with two keypress.
> > > Of course this could be extended for upper/lower case, numbers,
> > > extra symbols (with a 10x10 matrix max. 100 symbols are possible).
> > >
> > > Only drawback is that we cannot simply display the matrix on OSD,
> > > so you would have to make a printed version and store it near
> > > your remote control.
> >
> >You can show the first row (0:a-g 1:h-n 2:o-u 3:v-z)
> >and after pressing the first digit (e.g. "1") the column
> >(0:a 1:b 2:c 3:e 4:f 6:g); all in one line of the OSD.
> >But I like the MobilePhone principle more. (Maybe with T9?)
> >
> >         Matthias

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