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> ... the Tiled Text engine will narrow down the possibilities of what can be inserted at any given point so that the user can select textual constructs from a
by frou_dh 14y ago
> ... the Tiled Text engine will narrow down the possibilities of what can be inserted at any given point so that the user can select textual constructs from a grid of options, rather than inserting everything one character at a time ...
The recently revamped PSN Store on PS3 has what I thought was quite a usable implementation of text entry. When searching the store, you select characters one at a time from a (vertical) strip, but that dynamic strip only contains characters for which there will continue to be search results after it's appended to your string. The current search results are shown as a live preview, so you need enter just enough to filter out the noise.
- tiziano88 14y agoit reminds me of TomTom and other car GPS systems text input methods, in which keyboard keys are gradually grayed out as the user inputs their destination, if there are no matches for which that key is the next letter
- westoncb 14y agoThat is similar, except that I do the filtering on a grammatical basis. I'm curious though: will take a look.
- huhtenberg 14y agoThis is hardly a new idea though. Half of car navigation systems implement this exact type of entry method.