penti keyboard
Hello, In today Pilcon I had an interest in penti keyboard and decided to test it , so I've installed it from Android Store into my android 7.1.1 phone. I had to activate it as a virtual keyboard and select it as default keyboard, but when try to use it something is wrong, I see a word "Pent" in the middle of screen and no circles at all and I cannot type anything, but when moving the phone I see a lot of random symbols typed in. Is there anything else necessary to install in order to use the keyboard? regards -- Andrés *~ La mejor manera de librarse de la tentación es caer en ella**. ~ Oscar Wilde* ~
Re: penti keyboard
Hi Andrés, > In today Pilcon I had an interest in penti keyboard and decided to test it > , so I've installed it from Android Store into my android 7.1.1 phone. > > I had to activate it as a virtual keyboard and select it as default > keyboard, but when try to use it something is wrong, I see a word "Pent" in This is all correct and good so far. > the middle of screen and no circles at all and I cannot type anything, but At this point you should touch the screen with all five fingers, in a natural convenient position. Then five cicles should appear. They will follow your hand and finger movements, until you release at least one finger. Then the circles will stay in place. > when moving the phone I see a lot of random symbols typed in. There are no keys generated until you did the above calibration. But I have an idea what could happen: If you press the hardware Volume-Up or -Down keys, Penti generates special data for remote controlling the mouse cursor (I also briefly showed this today). It generates text like Δ827-24+156+Δ188-1064-306+Δ633+162-70-Δ6-240+331- Does it look like that? If so, better not press the volume keys :) BTW, you can indeed control both the screen brightness and audio volume from Penti by swiping on the screen (outside of a circle) up and down for brightness, and left and right for volume. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: penti keyboard
> How can I change the size of circles? and even better how can I > recalibrate again to change circle positions? > > Ok I see after a while not touching the phone the "Pent" letters appear again and I have to calibrate it in order to use it, so it's easy to recalibrate, just wait until "Pent" word appears. But then is there any way to save the current calibration?
Re: penti keyboard
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 08:35:00PM +0100, pd wrote: > ok, that's fine, now I can type letters but I end up with four top circles > and a little circle below the second (or third) one and a not so big > big-circle down (screenshot attached). Yes, I see. The initial calibrabnion is not optimal. As I said, best is to move the fingers a little until all circles are ideal, and then release. I do it usually in such a way that the four circles of the four fingers are about the same size, but the sixth circle (the repeat key) is even a little larger. The one for the thumb is the largest. > How can I change the size of > circles? and even better how can I recalibrate again to change circle > positions? Once you released, the positions are fixed. To redo it, you can type Func-Space. Then you get the initial "P E N T I" display and touch all again. > > BTW, you can indeed control both the screen brightness and audio volume > > from > > Penti by swiping on the screen (outside of a circle) up and down for > > brightness, > > and left and right for volume. > > > > this seems not working, sure I'm doing something wrong. I forgot to mention that you hve to give Extended / "System access" permission in the Phone's settings for Penti for that. > I remember I've read you can press out the circles to hide the circles and > show full screen but I don't find how to do it Just press with one finger outside of all circles. Then Penti disappears and you can use anobnher fingea to do something on the screen, like copy/paste or click on a link. > How can I show the on screen help with keys chords ? With Func-H For the records, most things are explained in https://software-lab.de/penti.html ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: penti keyboard
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 08:46:29PM +0100, pd wrote: > Ok I see after a while not touching the phone the "Pent" letters appear > again and I have to calibrate it in order to use it, so it's easy to This does not happen. Penti is reset only if you type Func-Space, or switch to another keyboard and then back to Penti. > But then is there any > way to save the current calibration? No. And I think this is not needed. Once you got used to it, (re)calibration is just a quick touch. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: penti keyboard
Hello, I was playing a little and surprisingly it's fun and I'm not too dumb, still I realized two facts: - I'm not able to place all circles inside the screen - my little finger is useless I see almost all my questions and problems are explained in the link you gave me about penti, so sorry for bothering you with my questions, I should RTFM before asking. On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 9:58 PM Alexander Burger wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 08:46:29PM +0100, pd wrote: > > Ok I see after a while not touching the phone the "Pent" letters appear > > again and I have to calibrate it in order to use it, so it's easy to > > This does not happen. Penti is reset only if you type Func-Space, or > switch to > another keyboard and then back to Penti. > > I discovered the use case, it is when screen layout changes, when I put my phone on the table it turns the screen from vertical layout to horizonatal layout and this makes "Penti" word appear on the screen and I have to recalibrate. It's a bit annoying but it's also logical to act this way since screen dimensions change when you change layout, I suppose the obvious solution is to block layout change regards
PilCon Mind Maps 2022-03-10
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