This isn't as easy as I thought it would be. It appears that the AddressBook controllers have custom views for each of the different entries and have the keyboard hardcoded. There are 7 fields, "Edit Name","Edit Email", "Edit URL","Edit Address" and "Add Field" are alphanumeric, while Edit Phone and ringtone are not.
I will have to modify the ViewController's somehow or intercept the messages and replace it with edit screens with our custom ones. What a pain.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Custom keyboard
I have been able to 'replace' the default keyboard on the iphone within an application. By intercepting 'messages' I'm able to hide the normal keyboard and put in the custom one. With rotating views the keyboard will follow.
TO DO:
1. display the actual strokes rather than the mapping character
2. fix some stroke to keymappings
3. add the '.'
4. add some notifications such as when the stroke sequence has generated a unique glyph
5. add an app or two. Should be possible to edit the contact information, maybe a browser? And I will look to hooking into im and email.
TO DO:
1. display the actual strokes rather than the mapping character
2. fix some stroke to keymappings
3. add the '.'
4. add some notifications such as when the stroke sequence has generated a unique glyph
5. add an app or two. Should be possible to edit the contact information, maybe a browser? And I will look to hooking into im and email.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Nikon D40x
Got a Nikon D40x as a present. It came with the kit zoom lense an 18-55 zoom which is equivalent to 35-105. The camera is 10mpixels but has raw format which will have better image quality at the expense of larger size.
With the built in flash, it is certainly much more unwieldy than the nikon LS18, but has many more capabilities. Higher resolution, better focusing, can take continuous shots, more control over things such as shutter speed, f stop, etc. It should allow me to take pictures of food more easily.
A few things that I will probably have to get for it, a camera bag, memory card and maybe a dedicated flash. A 1gig card only holds about 70 raw+jpeg pics, so I will have to get a much larger capacity one, maybe a 4 gig card. a 1 gig card will hold like 400-500 pics from the LS18.
With the built in flash, it is certainly much more unwieldy than the nikon LS18, but has many more capabilities. Higher resolution, better focusing, can take continuous shots, more control over things such as shutter speed, f stop, etc. It should allow me to take pictures of food more easily.
A few things that I will probably have to get for it, a camera bag, memory card and maybe a dedicated flash. A 1gig card only holds about 70 raw+jpeg pics, so I will have to get a much larger capacity one, maybe a 4 gig card. a 1 gig card will hold like 400-500 pics from the LS18.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Iphone a bust?
Was looking into the SDK for the iphone. The tools that they provide and the documentation does not allow for a keyboard service, which is what I need to implement. All documentation describes creating an application which will normally take up a full screen.
In addition there is normally only 1 application running. The iphone os will terminate and start another one as needed (if a call comes in etc) . There are some demons but none of the documentation describes it, and looking at the iphone os, it appears it's much more fragile (memory management for instance).
Since the iphone os is based on mac os, it should be possible to hack at it, using info from mac development. If I have a jailbroken iphone (or even iphone simulator) I might be able to figure out how to do it.
It is possible since iaccess, a Chinese virtual keyboard app exists and appears to work on the iphone as a service level application.
I may have to look toward a proof-of-concept on the android platform, as I know that will support virtual keyboards/input method framework soon (1h 2009) as opposed to Apple which has not commented on the topic. Also since Android is java based, it's should be much easier to develop. Iphone apps use objective C which is an derived from C, or something like that.
In addition there is normally only 1 application running. The iphone os will terminate and start another one as needed (if a call comes in etc) . There are some demons but none of the documentation describes it, and looking at the iphone os, it appears it's much more fragile (memory management for instance).
Since the iphone os is based on mac os, it should be possible to hack at it, using info from mac development. If I have a jailbroken iphone (or even iphone simulator) I might be able to figure out how to do it.
It is possible since iaccess, a Chinese virtual keyboard app exists and appears to work on the iphone as a service level application.
I may have to look toward a proof-of-concept on the android platform, as I know that will support virtual keyboards/input method framework soon (1h 2009) as opposed to Apple which has not commented on the topic. Also since Android is java based, it's should be much easier to develop. Iphone apps use objective C which is an derived from C, or something like that.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
10.5.6 up and runing
Got the hackintosh 10.5.6 running. Wasn't easy had a plethora of issues from the Waiting for root device 0 to cannot find the boot.plist file.
In the end it was resolved by installing ALL the ATA chipset drivers, a particular Nforce lan driver and the kxconfig (for sound) driver. That took 6 hours of trial and error.
Hopefully now the iphone development stuff will work correctly as well as fontforge.
In the end it was resolved by installing ALL the ATA chipset drivers, a particular Nforce lan driver and the kxconfig (for sound) driver. That took 6 hours of trial and error.
Hopefully now the iphone development stuff will work correctly as well as fontforge.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Music and graphics on the mac...
Finally got mac to recognize the video card and install the drivers for it as well as the sound. Had to download a program that wrote to the boot file i believe and setup the device id for the display card. I used EFI EZ String.
For the soundblaster, I got lucky, some russians have been working on soundblaster drivers for windows and decided to port over for macs and the sound works just fine.
Actually mac os works great now, no hangs or anything like that yet. Seems super stable too.
For the soundblaster, I got lucky, some russians have been working on soundblaster drivers for windows and decided to port over for macs and the sound works just fine.
Actually mac os works great now, no hangs or anything like that yet. Seems super stable too.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Nikon LS18
I finally got a camera, the Nikon LS18. Reasonable camera that has most of the features that I was looking for, such as macro, flash-fill or second curtain flash, sdhc support.
There's two big pluses going for it, it uses AA batteries which is pretty easy to get a hold of, and supports sdhc the high capacity standard. (On a side note I found out that they have come out with a spec for terrabyte size cards!)
The major drawbacks is that this camera uses a plastic body, and the download software is slower. It seems that it must go through all the card contents before it can show it to you, which works unlike the canon software. Since I like keeping old foto's on the camera's card, this can be a problem.
There is a slight bumpup in resolution (8m instead of 7m) from my old Canon SD550. Also there isn't much in the way of manual modes (apeture or shuttle priority). The face detection system didn't work that great (doesn't detect faces on photo's which other cameras can, but I can't be sure that's that big a problem), and unlike other systems, seems to only find one face.
As a cheap camera that can take pictures though, so far it fits the bill.
There's two big pluses going for it, it uses AA batteries which is pretty easy to get a hold of, and supports sdhc the high capacity standard. (On a side note I found out that they have come out with a spec for terrabyte size cards!)
The major drawbacks is that this camera uses a plastic body, and the download software is slower. It seems that it must go through all the card contents before it can show it to you, which works unlike the canon software. Since I like keeping old foto's on the camera's card, this can be a problem.
There is a slight bumpup in resolution (8m instead of 7m) from my old Canon SD550. Also there isn't much in the way of manual modes (apeture or shuttle priority). The face detection system didn't work that great (doesn't detect faces on photo's which other cameras can, but I can't be sure that's that big a problem), and unlike other systems, seems to only find one face.
As a cheap camera that can take pictures though, so far it fits the bill.
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