[Coco] coco on android

Brad Grier bradgrier at cox.net
Sun Nov 21 10:37:49 EST 2010


I've seen that behavior with an ssh client I use. The text is small! But 
really the only problem is I don't know how to do it...yet.

On 11/21/2010 12:44 AM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Brad Grier<bradgrier at cox.net>  wrote:
>> This has full virtual keyboard support for typing things like "CLOADM" and
>> "EXEC". :D
>>
>> The problem is the keyboard obscures much of the screen. That means you
>> would be doing a lot of showing and hiding in a text adventure. A
>> translucent keyboard might make things easier. Of course this isn't a
>> concern on phones with slide-out keyboards.
>>
>
> Given that many (most?) devices have a very tall portrait mode, could
> you implement a display mode that put a coco screen in the on the top
> 50% - 60% (whatever 4:3 works out to plus top menu bar, etc) and the
> standard keyboard on the lower half?  i'd image text would still be
> quite readable even using only half the screen for coco video, and
> would make things like text adventures and even a little basic
> tolerable (at least for me).
>
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