Why doesn't someone create a keyboard input system incorporating t9word like what cell phones use?

do you want to type in every word from the dictionary...?

very nice idea, definatly a good change of pase from all those other keyboards out there

NICE JOB Durante!!!

Durante said:
Anyway, I personally believe that the biggest advantage of my system compared to psprint and the like is that you don't have to learn a layout. If we have an advanced input device like an analog joystick why not use it ;)

Hi Durante,

You are right of course. But the advantage of p-sprint is that the screen is not affected. It works just like a real keyboard, in that you don't get any visual cluttering. Also, the analog stick is left free for mouse control. In a windows like environment, or in games and other software that also supports a mouse, this is a very effective method. True, you have to get used to the layout a little, but once you do it's very effective and it supports almost everything a normal keyboard does, including combinations like CTRL+SHIFT+S and so on.

You made a very nice system, though, nice job. :)

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to Phil Nolan, This is a demo of a keyboard system, not a text editor. Its just ike thedemos of psprint. It is a script that people can copy, edit and thus implement into their programs for things such as text editors, name entry, high scores, etc

Off-topic, but the ultimate in cool keyboards:

http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

reminds me of Beyond Good and Evil's text entry system

Why didn't Sony think of something like this instead of that ridiculous phone keypad simulation bollocks! Nice work Durante, maybe you can sell it to Sony? ;)

This is the best console input system that I have seen. The only thing that would be better would be a port of The Dasher Project.

Splinter cell chaos theory used a name input system just like this. Moji Ribbon by Na na Onsha also used one like this although it used both analogue sticks and shoulder buttons for the japanese characters.

very cool, but it must be ghard as hell to get it perfec tly at the letters with the analog, unless the sensitivity is very low

This news is a bit out of date, as I already fully implemented the caret. Anyway, I personally believe that the biggest advantage of my system compared to psprint and the like is that you don't have to learn a layout. If we have an advanced input device like an analog joystick why not use it ;)

I don't have this Lua Player so maybe that's why, but I don't understand something. Once you've typed out your word how do you get it from this program into where ever you want it?