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Master Forge needs to be mentioned. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjy6l6cdCw&pp=ygUORm9yZ2Uga2V...
Modifying the final version, I'd really like the delete button moved 180 degrees around the right circle, and a second space button put in its place. But, other than that, it felt pretty natural to type on, using a phone touchscreen.
Reminded me of the Nokia 3600/3650 [1] with its radial button layout.
Wonder if a similar concept would allow input with only one stick.
If you type “h” and then hit the space between “w” and “e”, it will assume you wanted “e” and register that.
This could easily be implemented by dynamically adjusting the ranges where a letter can be selected from the joystick. You don’t even need to render it differently; just adjust which letter registers at a particular angle.
I also think word prediction could go a long way towards speeding it up further.
I must have fat fingers or some perception that means however it was tuned doesn't fit me. The most two most frustrating keys, period ('.') to the right of the spacebar which I seem to press by accident when I'm trying to add a space, 3 of 4 times. I don't think my finger is near it but a period appears so.I.often.type.like.this . Maybe this is the invisible button size increase. The other is delete next to 'm'. I also hit that 4 of 5 times when I didn't mean to. I wanted to screen capture my phone experience and post it as just how band the experience is but if course I'm mostly typing private stuff.
I'd think just from every day usage of 18 years I'd some how get it but it's been 18 years and I don't
It won’t be just one space that’s been replaced with “.”s but several in a row.
The trailing “m” is something I often hit as I do the double “ “ to get the “.” and then backspace over the final space but often hit the “m” and tap “send”/“submit” without reviewing.
Speaking of which, it would be nice if it could trim the last trailing “ “ when leaving focus of the text entry if it had been entered due to a doubled “ “ to obtain a “.”.
I’ll look into the switched letter tomorrow morning and may adjust. Or I’ll get back to you with the reasoning if it’s intentional.
I had some ideas/modifications, so I sketched up a version in autohotkey and really liked playing around with it for a bit:
-> Pressing in the joystick also switches to alt mode, instead of having a separate button. Works really well, just need to tune the timing/tolerances a bit. It felt way more intuitive.
-> Right bumper => space, Left Bumper => backspace
-> Right Trigger fully down => jumps cursor to start of next word (left trigger start of prev).
-> Right Trigger partially down => moves cursor that much to start of next word (eg. half way down, halfway through current word)
-> Holding a trigger down while using the other one selects the text. This one is a bit awkward to use, needing to "undo" the initial press and not really having a way to unselect if you selected too much. Will need more experimentation to see if it's a good idea.
This leaves the buttons available for new line, key swap (numbers, symbols, etc.), confirm/exit; And dpad for direct arrow key control.
Thanks for sharing!
Bug Report: I could not get the Gamepad Mapping Settings to work. No changes registered, no errors in dev console. Win10 chrome.
I’ll look into the controller mapping tomorrow morning.
This is the best animation I can find of it: https://imgur.com/how-text-chat-on-consoles-shoud-work-wow-c...
This looks great. The lag in on screen keyboards have really been annoying me lately.
Youtube, Prime, Max all have issues on multiple devices (chromecast tv, ps5 - I guess semi on topic since it’s a game pad) where if you move the cursor too fast there a delay where the letter typed is after youve already moved and you type gibberish. I have to pause now on each letter before moving on to the next to ensure it registered correctly.
I actually liked typing on the YouTube app on the PS4 controller. Wasn’t super fast but was one of the fastest typing on the controller for me.
I find one limitation of typing speed is sometimes the input rate that a device picks up presses is so low. I can get 75 WPM on an iPhone but I can barely type my phone number into Target self-checkout because it picks up presses so slowly. Roku input is also really slow. Yet I can absolutely rip on my grocery store credit card keypad.
tyleo•6h ago