Resco Keyboard Bug: Short Slides Do Nothing

JonathanAquino · 01-14-05, 02:54 AM

I'm upset because I shelled out cash for Resco Keyboard, the Pocket PC Magazine winner in the Soft Keyboards category, and yet the thing fails to respond for an annoyingly significant number of taps (3%?) especially when I am trying to tap fast.

Specifically, Resco Keyboard will ignore you if you do a small slide across a key boundary i.e. if you do a slide shorter than the sensitivity setting and it crosses a key boundary. This can happen especially if you are tapping fast. Fitaly never ignores my taps. Heck, the default QWERTY keyboard never ignores my taps!

Question: Anyone else finding that Resco Keyboard fails to register taps here and there?

Below is an email exchange with Resco confirming the problem:

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From: Jonathan Aquino <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:38:55 -0800
Subject: Re: Resco Keyboard bug: "half-slide" does nothing.
To: Resco

Juro - Thanks for your willingness to try out the fix. It's a serious
bug - there is effectively a "dead zone" along the grid, in which 2-3
mm slides produce no effect.

Jon

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:32:33 +0100, Juro Janosik <Resco> wrote:
>
> OK. I will try it in the next version. Thanks for an idea.
>
> Regards,
> Juro
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Aquino [mailto:jonathan.aquino@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2005 7:33 PM
> To: Resco
> Subject: Re: Resco Keyboard bug: "half-slide" does nothing.
>
> Hello Juro:
>
> I'm glad to hear from you.
>
> So sometimes when the user taps, nothing happens (Case 2).
>
> I get frustrated when I tap and nothing happens because I would like
> responsiveness.
>
> Would you be willing to make this simple fix: When the slide is too
> short, always type the original key (4)? This would eliminate Case 2.
>
> Jon
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:43:09 +0100, Juro Janosik <Resco>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The sensitivity is the distance you need to slide to be recognized as
> > a gesture. When you starting the slide on the key 4 and the slide is
> > longer than the limit (influenced by the sensitivity) the Shift+4 is
> > pressed resulting that the "$" character is typed. When the slide is
> > too short then there are two cases: 1. the slide ends on the same key
> > (4) - the "4" is typed 2. the slide ends on the other key or outside
> > the keyboard - nothing is pressed
> >
> > Have you tried the higher sensitivity ?
> > Do you have an idea how to do it other way ?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Juro
> > Resco
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonathan Aquino" <jonathan.aquino@gmail.com>
> > To: Resco
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 8:55 PM
> > Subject: Resco Keyboard bug: "half-slide" does nothing.
> >
> > > Hello Resco:
> > >
> > > Would you be willing to confirm the following bug in the current
> > > version of Resco Keyboard?
> > >
> > > 1. Set the Sensitivity to Low
> > > 2. Tap on 4. The key changes colour, and a "4" is typed, as expected
>
> > > 3. Slide up on 4 by approx 5 mm. The key changes colour, and a "$"
> > > is typed, as expected 4. Slide up on 4 by approx 2 mm. The key
> > > changes colour, but *nothing is typed*. I expected a "$" to be typed
>
> > > (or at least a "4").
> > >
> > > Is this a bug?
> > >
> >
> >
>
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dlangton · 01-15-05, 08:28 PM

I'm noticed problems with the SIP since I first got it. There's a very small area of a key which is recognized as a keypress. My workaround was to increase the font size so that the recognized area becomes larger.

JonathanAquino · 01-15-05, 10:07 PM

dlangton - interesting! Which version do you have? (I'm using Resco Keyboard Pro 4.31. I just heard that 4.32 is out so I'm going to download it - hopefully it won't cost anything to upgrade).

Don't Panic! · 01-15-05, 10:27 PM

Are any of you folks using X50v's? The copy of resco keyboard I got from handango last year doesn't work with mine.

dlangton · 01-15-05, 11:08 PM

I'm using v4.31. Sheesh, they're putting out a lot of updates lately. Rescoe Explorer and Audio Recorder were just updated, too.

Don't Panic! · 01-16-05, 01:59 AM

That was posted on a few days ago. Resco Photo Viewer has been updated too.

dlangton-How long have you been using Resco Keyboard?

dlangton · 01-16-05, 02:03 AM

About a year. I don't use Photo Viewer - I prefer Conduits Pocket Album, mostly due to VGA output.

Don't Panic! · 01-16-05, 02:06 AM

Thank you! I'm ejigible for that update too then. :)

JonathanAquino · 02-02-05, 02:21 AM

Yay - Resco has fixed this bug in which short slides do nothing. The fix is in Resco Keyboard 4.33.