Thread: How to get Portrait keyboard in Fremantle (Unstable)
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2010-06-01 , 10:35
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Originally Posted by Radicalz38 View Post
Tried it and seems ok with me! A little bit more and i'll get used to it. Good thing I have a past experience with an eseries device with small qwerty keyboard. And also good thing this good old n900 isn't a capacitive screen else this would be impossible to use. Also isn' this python script a battery hog? Cause if i would regularly use this then this script should open 18hours a day.
Again, I said this isn't day-to-day usable. The battery does suffer a bit (exactly how much, I don't know), because of the constant polling.

Originally Posted by God_Lx View Post
Could something like matchbox-keyboard, ukeyboard, xkbd or xvkbd from the N800 be used for any advantage and have a Portrait Keyboard (skinning the keyboard to look good should be the easy part I believe) or it's just easier to try and resize the elements and rotate like the method found ?
The problem is that the N800's stulus keyboard is completely different; it allows you to interact with whatever's behind it.

Worth a try though, will do some time later.

Originally Posted by HellFlyer View Post
very nice one question will it be possible to run this script on startup? and how much battery will it consume?
Again, I don't recommend this, but I'm sure there's a way. Will look into that later as well.
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