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Flick button keyboard.
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I want to make an iPhone-custom keyboard in pythonista.
I'm Japanese. I want to make a custom keyboard for my iPhone that is Japanese compatible.
I want to make a flick input button in Python, but I don't know how to make it.
Someone help me, please.
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@shinya.ta a keyboard to be used in Pythonista only or by any app on your iPhone (like I did for you some years ago with the "Emojis keyboard.py" ?
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Dear cvp.
In Japan, we use iPhone like this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=si_f5KzPZJA
Can this button be done in Python?
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@shinya.ta sorry but as the YouTube explanation is in Japanese, I can't understand anything.
And which button is "this button"? And do you want a special keyboard only in Pythonista or in all apps where you use a keyboard, like mail, WhatsApp etc...?Anyway, I think that you could develop any kind of keyboard in Pythonista but the problem is to have a good description of your requests
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"Flick input" is a way to input characters by placing your finger in the direction of the character you want to type. If you want to type "I", touch the "A" key. If you don't let go of your finger, the characters in the "A" line appear, such as "I", "U", "E", and "O".
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8_mnbM1f-_o
The language you use is different, but the button looks like this.
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@shinya.ta said
"Flick input" is a way to input characters by placing your finger in the direction of the character you want to type. If you want to type "I", touch the "A" key. If you don't let go of your finger, the characters in the "A" line appear, such as "I", "U", "E", and "O".
Wow. Less easy but I guess it could be possible (but less sure). But I still have the same question.
Where do you want to use this keyboard? -
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@shinya.ta said
That's good news.
Don't be optimistic too quickly. I said that I'm no sure and, obviously, if it is possible, it would be not easy.
I didn't know this feature, seeming to exist as standard setting on Japanese iPad.
I guess that if Apple did not configure it on iPhone, there is a reason.This YouTube (you sent) shows such a keyboard on iPhone, thus why do want to create one yourself?
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The reason why I want to make a custom keyboard is for my wife.
On the old keyboard, if you switch the keyboard when you need to move the cursor, the character being converted will be determined.
So, I want to combine the previous cursor movement application with this custom keyboard and make one that doesn't need to switch the keyboard.
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@shinya.ta Sorry, I think that I become too old for this kind of stuff, I don't understand anything.
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@cvp
I want to combine the previous keyboard and the new flick button keyboard.Flick input button is essential.
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@cvp
It is the cursor movement keyboard that you made before. -
@cvp
If there is a flick input button, it will be easier for my wife to use. -
@shinya.ta said
It is the cursor movement keyboard that you made before.
If I remember, it is not a keyboard that I wrote but a particular script to use buttons for cursor movements in a TextView, but it uses a standard keyboard and you want a special keyboard with flick button keys?
Please, confirm both:
- what you call "cursor movement keyboard" is the "Move cursor in TextView.py" script where you have to tap buttons to move the cursor. And thus is not a keyboard.
- you want, in this script, to use a particular Japanese keyboard where keys can be used as flick buttons to generate vowels
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I want a special keyboard.
The Japanese input button is a flick input button, and I want to equip other blank buttons, a new line button, and a cursor movement button.
- I don't quite understand what this
means.
- I don't quite understand what this
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@shinya.ta Could you test this version of Emojis Keyboard.py, and tell me if the A button works as a flick button when you tap it with a long press.
Important: the modified script imports a gestures module that you have to download from https://github.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures/blob/master/gestures.py and to save in your site-packages folder.
Of course, this is only a test to check if I have correctly understood what you ask, thus don't hope to find here the solution.
If it is ok, you would have to give me a full description of wanted keys and their content when flicked.Only tested on iPad
Long press on A key gives
Moving finger on E key gives
