New Features

[TomFryers]

Hello,
I e-mailed you a couple of years ago about the licence for ThumbKeyboard. (Thank you for confirming by the way; I don’t think I ever replied back – sorry!) Since then I have implemented some features in my fork that you might be interested in. Some of these commits are extensively modifying the default layout, which your muscle memory probably doesn’t want, so you likely don’t want just to merge the whole thing (hence the draft). Anyway, I think the most interesting features are:

• ‘Sub-labels’ which show in small letters, for each key, the symbols that can be reached ‘through’ it. This can be helpful for reminding you of deep combinations.
• Quite a lot of æsthetic changes (which look better to me, although it’s completely subjective).
• Haptic feedback.
• Some new keys: caps lock, left/right/delete/backspace word, home, end, and most interestingly ‘mode keys’, e.g. I have a numpad mode and a Greek alphabet mode. The keyboard goes into numpad mode automatically when editing a numeric field.

The internal language is impressively powerful – the last of these changes was implemented with very little Java!

You can see the effect of the first two of these changes in this picture, although the changed layout might make it a bit unclear.

I’m not sure how much of this (if any!) of this you want to merge, but I hope some of it is useful. If I’ve done anything incomprehensible I’m happy to try to explain it!