All... I will be staring development of a D-Pad SIP for free release on this board in the next week... I will release as soon as I have something that is functional. Here are the initial features... please use this space to suggest others...
Four (Top,bottom,right left) buttons plus optional center
Special zone button for switching to user defined standard keyboard
D-SIP Toggled via any assignable button sequence (will play well with apps like Mobile Magic)
user definable gestures support
I will add accepted features to this list above with a 'Phase' (e.g. planned for release 1,2 or eventually)
Blessings one and all -- My Christmas gift to you
abeery said:
All... I will be staring development of a D-Pad SIP for free release on this board in the next week... I will release as soon as I have something that is functional. Here are the initial features... please use this space to suggest others...
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Blessings one and all -- My Christmas gift to you
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That seems to be a very nice Christmas gift! You will make many users of Touch HD very happy. Thanks for your effort.
One suggestion:
If possible I would like to get continuous signal and user defined repeat rate as well as user defined delay until repetition begins (just like hardware dpad can be calibrated via settings).
Thanks in advance.
Hmm, it will be hard to enable it in applications wich doesnt support SIP's such as games
Maybe it is possible to run a application in a "640x480"px Frame and to use the 160pixel at the bottom for a D-Pad...
Would be nics to add in a rotation button, I don't like how gsen and gyrator mess up my screen when I don't want it to. Also Might come in handy a clear 4 way pad to be use ingame, left or right of the screen, maybe that is a little too much to ask for?
Koffein Schluck said:
Hmm, it will be hard to enable it in applications wich doesnt support SIP's such as games
Maybe it is possible to run a application in a "640x480"px Frame and to use the 160pixel at the bottom for a D-Pad...
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My hope is to add a option to force a 640x480 resolution for "configured" applications and then use the freed 160px for the D-Pad... in non-configured apps it would function like any other SIP. Still researching my approach
consider adding the buttons for Cut Copy and Paste
sounds like a great idea! hope it works
The 2 hardware keys (left and right) for the selection of the soft menus are a must!
I am a bit confused maybe due to lack of my knowledge of exactly what configuration this new SIP will carry. My confusion is because if you happen to see the Cootek TouchPal it already has a tab which gives you navigation options such as top, bottom, left, Right, select, cut and copy.
How is your SIP going to be different from TouchPal.
Regards
srmz said:
I am a bit confused maybe due to lack of my knowledge of exactly what configuration this new SIP will carry. My confusion is because if you happen to see the Cootek TouchPal it already has a tab which gives you navigation options such as top, bottom, left, Right, select, cut and copy.
How is your SIP going to be different from TouchPal.
Regards
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I guess the goal of this SIP is to be available in all applications (e.g. games) that usually depend on some hardware buttons to be playable and not just the ones that activate a SIP for input by default like SMS, Email etc.
One suggestion would be to have 8 directions on the virtual pad. On a real dpad you can press 2 directions simultaneously (useful in games) however the resistive screen means that there would only be one key press at a time.
Sorry for my ignorance...i am very new to WinMo phone.
Can anyone tell me what is SIP and how it is going to work?
By the way there is a software called AEBplus which can configured the hardware Vol up/down for HD, is it going to be similiar?
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I guess the goal of this SIP is to be available in all applications (e.g. games)
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As the most games I know use their own keyboard implementation, a SIP won't work for them. SIP will just for most applications, rather the ones, where you see the "keyboard icon" in the bottom, where you can change the keyboard and make some settings.
Looking forward to it
I think a good starting point could be to create a full screen application (a sort of container) with a sidebar implementing the Dpad that emulates an hardware pad + some buttons and a 'window' 640x480px where other applications can run.
In this mode it should be possible to generate the standard Windows messages when a soft-key is hit so that the windowed application could be fooled thinking that the user is acting on a true Dpad/key.
Bye
So it will work with for example pocket gba emulator ?
Wolfenzi said:
So it will work with for example pocket gba emulator ?
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Something like this allready exist, google MorphGear
it will work with PPC Games better than GBA
any news on this project?
Same question here. I am waiting for this as the most important thing for Touch HD on this forum. I want arrow keys in my age of empires to move map
By the way : If you can, you should do that virtual pad fully configurable, like morphgear has (text file with functions and color numbers and bmp picture with those colors on certain places + copy of that but in colors that will be displayed)
I'm still experimenting with various approaches... unfortunately it seems like the most viable approach will involve the four softkeys at the bottom of the device... everything else I try only works when I can force a SIP to be present and unfortunately it seems that the times I want a D-Pad SIP the most are the apps that make this difficult... BTW... if anyone has a code sample for reassigning the HomeKey send me a PM please. For now all I can say is please continue to have patience... I'm still working on making a solution available
Is it possible to play COd2 on the touch hd with something like Gsen oder virtual d-pad . Because i would love to play this game.
i'd like to know too. i can run it but i can't move anywhere.
Mapping correctly the volume button (run & fire) and the 4 corner icons to useful stuff (reload, change weapon,...) you can play it
Hi
All some devices such as the MEGA, TOPAZ LEO and Whitestone.. dont have a D PAD...
is it possible to develop a SIP based DPAD that is in the Ezinput.. like you know just extract just that bit
see screen shot below
bump!!!!!!!
Yeah, I would like that idea, a nice virtual DPAD that's built into the input menus. Yum yum.
Virtual Dpad
Hi!
I´ve a Problem with the HW Keyboard of my Rhodium.
I want to play SNES Emulators, so i´ve to deactivate xt9 (changed two Reg-Keys), than the Emulation works great with the keyboard (not usinf morphgear, but PocketSNES).
But now the Blue FN Keys are going crazy. When i press FN+B there shoud be the "?", but there is the "/". Same with some other FN Keys.
When i change the Reg Keys back, the FN-Keys work, but the Emulation stop working.
Is there a posibility to deactivate xt9 without changing the "FN Layout"?
Best regards,
MrMmmkay
Hi Guys is it possible to assign L or R buttons as Previous and Next for the music player?
Yes, but you need root to get write access in system. Go into "/system/usr/keylayout/", open "keypad-zeus.kl" in a plain-text editor. Change "key 310 BUTTON_L1" to "key 310 MEDIA_PREVIOUS" then change "key 311 BUTTON_R1" to "key 311 MEDIA_NEXT". Modifying these values will make the trigger buttons unusable in "Xperia PLAY Optimized" games (unless they allow changing button configuration)
Also, make ABSOLUTELY sure the permissions of the "keypad-zeus.kl" file stay the same as they originally were (Owner=read/write, Group=read, Others=read)
Hatcyl wrote an app for that.
L & R triggers are easily pressed while using the phone, are you sure you want to have your music player change tunes every minute?
the xperia play doesnt utilize these extra buttons,you would expect the music player to atlease give you these options, with winamp and double twist, you can use lock screen player, which would show buttons when you turn on the screen,ontop of the lock screen,
i personally recommend double twist unless you need a lama
Alright I see its a lot of work then ... so im just gonna have to stick with stock settings.. and learn to be contented with it.. hehehe.. Thank You For the Information Guys... I Appreciate it..