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C H A P T E R 6

Data Input

Displaying Keyboards

There are several ways users can display a keyboard. One is to double-tap any blank space in a text-input area. Another is to double-tap a word to bring up a Correction picker and then tap the keyboard in that picker (as described under “Correcting Misrecognized Text” on page 6-29). Users can also bring up a keyboard by tapping any visible Keyboard button. (An application can put a Keyboard button on the left side of its status bar and at the bottom left corner of slips, as described in “Keyboard Button” on page 3-25.)

If a keyboard is already displayed, then tapping a Keyboard button pops up a Keyboard picker. The Keyboard picker lists the available keyboards, and a user can select one by tapping its name in the Keyboard picker. A check in the Keyboard picker marks the currently selected keyboard. Figure 6-28 shows the Keyboard picker in the built-in Notepad application.

Figure 6-28A Keyboard picker lists alternate on-screen keyboards

Keyboard picker

Any time the user is about to input data that the Newton system is unlikely to recognize, such as an e-mail address, your application should automatically display an appropriate keyboard for the user. Another option is to embed a keyboard in a slip used for data input, as the built-in Names File application does. Figure 6-29 shows a keyboard embedded in a slip.

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