Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:54:00 -0500 From: fish.kungfu@yandex.ru To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <250801332982440@web151.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <20120329002440.GA9313@hemlock.hydra>
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The Twiddler 2.1 keyboard is a good example of a chorded keyboard. It became popular with wearable computers where the user wore a heads-up augmented reality type display. Cheers...Fish 28.03.12, 19:25, "Chad Perrin" <perrin@apotheon.com>": > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:24:51PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:54AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > > > I think learning a chording keyboard is going to be much more of an > > > obstacle than using a QWERTY keyboard, considering you can hunt-and-peck > > > on a QWERTY keyboard, but you have to know the chords to do anything on a > > > chording keyboard. > > > > i dont have a clue what a chording keybd is; will google > > after a long nap1 also, i have lost track of who posted the > > 'fentek' page, but that is where i got my present mine. > > A chording keyboard is a keyboard or other button-press interface with > fewer keys so it can fit on a smaller device, where many keycodes are > gotten by way of combining presses of multiple keys rather than a single > key as on a standard QWERTY keyboard. Thus, for instance, where on a > QWERTY keyboard you get a capital A by holding the Shift key and pressing > the A key, you might on a chording keyboard also get a lower-case A by > holding down some key and pressing another key. This works for keyboards > with fewer keys because there are many potential combinations of keys > that could be used; if all keycodes are achieved by a two-button "chord", > all the keys on a standard 101-key keyboard, plus all Alt-, Shift-, and > Ctrl-chord keycodes, could be simulated by a mere twenty keys. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile: http://m.ya.ru/ymail
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