Thread: [ANNOUNCE] VertSMS - portrait sms'ing in extras-dev
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2010-06-03 , 15:50
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#165
Originally Posted by BN900 View Post
hey everyone,

I am testing the app and it is amazing! you guys have done an incredible job! we are all thankful!

i was thinking about something:
@Ossipena:PR 1.2 does bring portrait mode in email and conversation through autorotation. can you guys create a variant of your app which is simply a vertical qwerty with input space and a 'copy all'/delete all buttons. always open in the background, we would switch to it via multitasking, write our text, copy it with a single button, paste it to our email or conversation! without the 'send to' part in vertsms, we could actually afford to make the buttons bigger. we could also just add a 'copy all'/delete all button/function in vertsms and make it a one-stop app, but the qwerty would still be a tad small.

thank you even for reading! i wish i could finally take some time off and learn some programming myself...

you guys are the BEST for making us this!
So yeah, once again, I'm NOT ossipena so I am not strictly speaking on his behalf, but as a hobbyist programmer myself, I foresee the following problems with your request:

  • The qwerty keyboard that exists was never in the scope of features intended for vertsms. In fact, it only exists because frals implemented it, pushed a merge request, and ossipena accepted it. That isn't to say that ossipena was incapable of creating it, but that he didn't.
  • The point above means two things: first, that there probably won't be a horizontal keyboard "only" variant of this app, because this app was never focused on qwerty keyboards. second, that because the qwerty keyboard was introduced as a patch, it's easy enough to seperate the interface itself. input is a different story
  • In order to allow email, etc to make use of the qwerty keyboard, they would need to have the interface connected to input events. IIRC modest is open source so it is technically possible, but I'm not sure if the others are
  • As far as automatically starting it in the background, this would mean either being able to catch dbus events or similar in order to know when to open the program.
In summary, while I appreciate the enthusiasm, I'm not certain that the request itself is practical. Assuming it is, I'm not sure it belongs here. That is, it should be a separate program. Then again, I've been wrong on many occasions. for those interested, the code that handles the qwerty keyboard can be found here
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