Anyone using alternative input devices with Squeak?

Tim Rowledge rowledge at interval.com
Sun Nov 8 03:39:30 UTC 1998


On Sat 07 Nov, Michael S. Klein wrote:
 
> 	http://www.HandyKey.com/
I took a look (difficult for me - their pages seem to use 'funny' html and
confused my browser into making things almost unreadable. Foo on
proprietary extensins!) and it looks rather more complex to me than theold
'Quinkey' keyboard that was invented by MicroWriter corp many years ago.
That used just six buttons arranged one per finger and the extra one
fortheball of the thumb. I learnt to get by with it in about half an hour
and eventually got quite proficient. See
http://w3.hiway.co.uk/boog/aghome.html for some info about Quinkey.

> Best trick to *really* learn how to do UI stuff:
> 	Stop using *all* other environments other than your primary one.
> 	This includes Netscape and the Finder/File Manager.  
> 	It is OK to call-out to other
> 	programs, but do not use their UI's.  Do this for 3 monthes.  If 
> 	you don't go back... you will have learned. (And Squeak will be
> 	better)
>
Bravo - nicely put. If it isn't so good that you want to use it all the
time, it isn't good enough yet.

tim

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