Roku Developer Program

[RokuMarkn]

For anyone running the 3.0 firmware, I've written a simple typing game based on a new design for an on-screen keyboard. I'd be very interested to hear your comments. Private channel code QUICKKEY.

Note that this game will NOT run on pre-3.0 firmware.

--Mark

[renojim]

It took me a few tries to figure out what was going on. That's pretty slick! I think it would take some getting used to before I could type faster on it than on the regular keyboard screen, but I think once I got used to it I could type pretty quickly. One thing I might suggest is to have SHIFT only last for one character and to have a CAPS LOCK and maybe rename PUNCT to SYMBOLS.

-JT

[destruk]

I don't think this is much of a game. Perhaps it'd be better to handle it like a pinball machine - with auto-repeat for the keys. ie - hold down left on the remote to scroll through letters Z-A, and right on the remote to scroll through letters A-Z, and OK to choose the highlighted letter. I never use shifted/case on roku when entering anything, and symbols are a waste of time too unless you need to put in a WPA key. Numbers could be added to the beginning or end of the scrolling selection, and spacebar. Really that is the most efficient way I see of doing this - perhaps using the fastforward/rew to skip around by 10 symbols, ok to complete entry, and the back/instant replay/info button if available to delete.
Of course the ideal best solution would be to use a wireless IR or bluetooth keyboard. I can type on a keyboard, and enter text using the scrolling method mentioned above a lot quicker than 11.5 characters per minute.

[renojim]

I think to make this particular channel more of a game there should be a suggested phrase to type and some kind of overall statistics kept.

-JT

[jbrave]

"RokuMarkn" wrote:
For anyone running the 3.0 firmware, I've written a simple typing game based on a new design for an on-screen keyboard. I'd be very interested to hear your comments. Private channel code QUICKKEY.

Note that this game will NOT run on pre-3.0 firmware.

--Mark

Great, very innovative. Not sure if one could type faster on this or not, but any attempt to innovate in this area is welcome. @destruk it doesn't have to be "much of a game" it is a proof of concept! Innovation should be encouraged, not smacked down.

I would love to see a pinball game style keyboard interface though!

- Joel