<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Jim Oltman <<a href="mailto:jim.oltman@gmail.com">jim.oltman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The cool thing about the video is that while it did feature mouse clicks,<br>
> that could all be achieved with an IR remote control directional pad, back<br>
> button, and the center/enter key (on the MCE USB remote).<br>
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</div>Using directional buttons to control an on-screen cursor is really a<br>
pain. The lack of speed control means that the cursor is always<br>
moving too fast or too slow. Remotes that have an accelerometer (as<br>
in the Roku) can effectively control a cursor, but I wouldn't want to<br>
try that with an MCE remote.<br>
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> Isn't there already an onscreen keyboard (at least in 0.24 there was)?<br>
<br>
</div>Possibly. There may be a setting somewhere that disables it. I<br>
usually have a real keyboard handy so I might have disabled it years<br>
ago and forgotten about it.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I didn't mean a cursor being controlled by a remote. That would be a HUGE headache and a major step backwards in functionality. I was thinking more along the lines of the remote D-Pad controlling a "box" on the screen. You hit up, the box moves up to the selection above it's current position. I was thinking that the cursor would not be on the screen at all. </div>
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