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On 10/18/2015 8:48 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:54:44 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>
>> You can switch that function off if you want. Also there is a function
>> that you can "type" by sliding your finger over the keyboard and pausing
>> for a fraction on the letter you want to select.
>
> Using swype (which is what I use), you don't even need to pause.
>
> But I do have a bluetooth keyboard (built into the case) for the times I
> need to write something more involved. Swype, though, is pretty fast
> compared to normal typing.
>
I don't actually use it, Jim. I seldom use my mobile device for sending
emails.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 10/18/2015 8:46 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> watch TV
The last time I watched anything on my tablet was:
"You can go to Hell. I'm going to Texas."
But I've mentioned that before.
--
Regards
Stephen
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> I have a couple of ideas for projects where a hand-sized computer would
> be really useful, but I don't know if a tablet will actually do what I
> want. Maybe it would be simpler to buy a Raspbery Pi and a touch-screen
> hat. (OTOH, you can't really put that in your pocket, so...)
The best (IMO) would be to buy a cheap smartphone (or tablet) running
Android. You can then download the free developer tools for your PC
(google "Android SDK") and so long as you can code in Java you'll be
away. If you have the phone/tablet connected to your PC (via USB cable)
in the developer tools you can just click "Run on device" and it will
compile, send to the device, and start it running on the device immediately.
What exactly is it you want to do? Smartphones/tablets are not good if
you want the user to enter a lot of text, if you can somehow change the
inputs to something more suited to a fat thumb on a small touchscreen
then it will work better.
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> Using swype (which is what I use), you don't even need to pause.
I also use swype, and (on mine at least) it even predicts your next word
(I think you get 3 options) so a lot of time you don't even need to
swype the word, just tap the suggestion.
If you're bored you can try and write entire paragraphs just by clicking
one of the suggested next words :-)
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Am 18.10.2015 um 20:13 schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:
> Yeah, the *other* possibility is to just buy a smartphone. But then, the
> idea of accessing the Internet with a PAYG account sounds... expensive.
The difference between tablets and smartphones is mostly quantitative
these days (display size, memory size, processor power, etc.)
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 08:35:32 +0100, scott wrote:
>> Using swype (which is what I use), you don't even need to pause.
>
> I also use swype, and (on mine at least) it even predicts your next word
> (I think you get 3 options) so a lot of time you don't even need to
> swype the word, just tap the suggestion.
Yep.
> If you're bored you can try and write entire paragraphs just by clicking
> one of the suggested next words :-)
That's always fun to do. The end result sounds a little bit like a game
of Cheddar Gorge.
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:08:23 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/18/2015 8:48 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 19:54:44 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> You can switch that function off if you want. Also there is a function
>>> that you can "type" by sliding your finger over the keyboard and
>>> pausing for a fraction on the letter you want to select.
>>
>> Using swype (which is what I use), you don't even need to pause.
>>
>> But I do have a bluetooth keyboard (built into the case) for the times
>> I need to write something more involved. Swype, though, is pretty fast
>> compared to normal typing.
>>
>>
> I don't actually use it, Jim. I seldom use my mobile device for sending
> emails.
I don't tend to use my phone for that, but my tablet gets used relatively
frequently.
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:11:16 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/18/2015 8:46 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> watch TV
>
> The last time I watched anything on my tablet was:
> "You can go to Hell. I'm going to Texas."
LOL
> But I've mentioned that before.
My cable provider provides an Android app that lets me watch stuff I've
recorded on my DVR as well as their On Demand selections.
That's kinda handy.
Jim
--
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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> Like many people [that was sarcasm], I have a graphing calculator. I'm
> pretty sure it's powered by a Z80, and it has an awful 160x120 LCD. You
> can "program" it, in that you can write a macro that opens menu pages in
> a specific order. (WTF is the point of that, BTW?)
>
> I keep thinking to myself "man, if only this had an actual programming
> language on it. It's already a hand-held computer, if only I could write
> code on this thing!"
I still have a TI-86 somewhere gathering dust. That had a BASIC
interpreter built-in. Somehow IIRC we also had a version of Mario
running on it, I assume you could also run assembler on it somehow.
In fact I wrote a simple "shoot the target" type game in BASIC for a
piece of GCSE Maths coursework. It showed you a target (a pixel) on the
right edge of the screen, and you had to enter an angle and speed to
fire an arrow (another pixel) to hit it. I learnt two important lessons
doing that. Firstly to test your program with sufficiently varied input
before releasing it, and secondly that 45 radians roughly equals 45
degrees (mod 360).
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On 19/10/2015 08:31 AM, scott wrote:
> The best (IMO) would be to buy a cheap smartphone (or tablet) running
> Android. You can then download the free developer tools for your PC
> (google "Android SDK") and so long as you can code in Java you'll be
> away. If you have the phone/tablet connected to your PC (via USB cable)
> in the developer tools you can just click "Run on device" and it will
> compile, send to the device, and start it running on the device
> immediately.
But you can't run the SDK *on* the device itself?
So I'm not going to be sitting in the corner of Blenheim Palace writing
a quick Java class or two. (Or rather, I can *write* then, just not
*compile* and *execute* them...)
> What exactly is it you want to do? Smartphones/tablets are not good if
> you want the user to enter a lot of text, if you can somehow change the
> inputs to something more suited to a fat thumb on a small touchscreen
> then it will work better.
My sister got be a rather expensive digital recording system for my
birthday. It's really cool, but the one thing it can't do is the one
thing I was expecting it to do: overdub. It can be configured as a USB
audio interface though, so from a PC it's trivial enough to open up
Audacity or whatever and overdub to your heart's content.
Trouble is, the set of places where I'm allowed to make noise and the
set of places where my PC is have an empty intersection. I can use my
laptop, but it's big and heavy and requires mains power to operate.
A tablet is obviously much smaller. I have no idea whether any of them
can act as a USB *host*, nor whether Andriod has drivers for something
as exotic as a USB audio interface. I doubt you can run Audacity, but it
can't be *that* hard to hack together a simple Java console program that
starts or stops recording on a certain key-press...
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