Flick button keyboard.

cvp

"Flick input" is a way to input characters by placing your finger in the direction of the character you want to type. If you want to type "I", touch the "A" key. If you don't let go of your finger, the characters in the "A" line appear, such as "I", "U", "E", and "O".

Wow. Less easy but I guess it could be possible (but less sure). But I still have the same question.
Where do you want to use this keyboard?

shinya.ta

@cvp

That's good news.

I want to use it for e-mail and website search like the old keyboard.

cvp

@shinya.ta said

That's good news.

Don't be optimistic too quickly. I said that I'm no sure and, obviously, if it is possible, it would be not easy.

I didn't know this feature, seeming to exist as standard setting on Japanese iPad.
I guess that if Apple did not configure it on iPhone, there is a reason.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KKHFWjBvIZw

This YouTube (you sent) shows such a keyboard on iPhone, thus why do want to create one yourself?

shinya.ta

@cvp

The reason why I want to make a custom keyboard is for my wife.

On the old keyboard, if you switch the keyboard when you need to move the cursor, the character being converted will be determined.

So, I want to combine the previous cursor movement application with this custom keyboard and make one that doesn't need to switch the keyboard.

cvp

@shinya.ta Sorry, I think that I become too old for this kind of stuff, I don't understand anything.
Believe me, you aren't responsible, I am.

shinya.ta

@cvp
I want to combine the previous keyboard and the new flick button keyboard.

Flick input button is essential.

cvp

@shinya.ta said

previous keyboard

What is that?

shinya.ta

@cvp
It is the cursor movement keyboard that you made before.

shinya.ta

@cvp
If there is a flick input button, it will be easier for my wife to use.

cvp

@shinya.ta said

It is the cursor movement keyboard that you made before.

If I remember, it is not a keyboard that I wrote but a particular script to use buttons for cursor movements in a TextView, but it uses a standard keyboard and you want a special keyboard with flick button keys?

Please, confirm both:

what you call "cursor movement keyboard" is the "Move cursor in TextView.py" script where you have to tap buttons to move the cursor. And thus is not a keyboard.
you want, in this script, to use a particular Japanese keyboard where keys can be used as flick buttons to generate vowels

shinya.ta

@cvp

I want a special keyboard.

The Japanese input button is a flick input button, and I want to equip other blank buttons, a new line button, and a cursor movement button.

I don't quite understand what this
means.

cvp

@shinya.ta Could you test this version of Emojis Keyboard.py, and tell me if the A button works as a flick button when you tap it with a long press.

Important: the modified script imports a gestures module that you have to download from https://github.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures/blob/master/gestures.py and to save in your site-packages folder.

Of course, this is only a test to check if I have correctly understood what you ask, thus don't hope to find here the solution.
If it is ok, you would have to give me a full description of wanted keys and their content when flicked.

Only tested on iPad

Long press on A key gives

Moving finger on E key gives

shinya.ta

@cvp
I'm sorry. I don't know how to download it.

cvp

@shinya.ta said

I don't know how to download it.

My script, Mikael's script, both? Never downloaded something from GitHub ? 😭

Some years ago, I wrote some scripts for you or your wife. Did I always post them in the forum, never in GitHub ?

Anyway, to download gestures.py into your site-packages folder, create and run, once, this little script

import os
import requests
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures/master/gestures.py'
data = requests.get(url).content
dir  = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/site-packages')	
file_name = url.split('/')[-1]
path = dir + '/' + file_name
with open(path,mode='wb') as out_file:
	out_file.write(data)

To download my little "Emojis keyboard .py" in your Pythonista's root, create and run once this little script

import os
import requests
#url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures/master/gestures.py'
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvpe/Pythonista-scripts/master/Emojis%20Keyboard.py'
data = requests.get(url).content
dir  = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/')	
file_name = url.split('/')[-1].replace('%20', ' ')
path = dir + '/' + file_name
with open(path,mode='wb') as out_file:
	out_file.write(data)

Then you have to replace the old keyboard script by this modified one... Please give me some feedback. Thanks

shinya.ta

@cvp

""" docgen-ignore """

This is "Indentation Error".

cvp

@shinya.ta Where? In one my both little scripts to download or in gestures.py or in Emojis Keyboard.py?

shinya.ta

@cvp
Can't I paste "gestures. py" into "Emoji Keyboard. py"?

shinya.ta

@cvp
When I pasted "gestures. py" into "Emoji Keyboard. py" and started it, I got the previous error.

shinya.ta

@cvp said:

import os
import requests
#url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mikaelho/pythonista-gestures/master/gestures.py'
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cvpe/Pythonista-scripts/master/Emojis%20Keyboard.py'
data = requests.get(url).content
dir  = os.path.expanduser('~/Documents/')	
file_name = url.split('/')[-1].replace('%20', ' ')
path = dir + '/' + file_name
with open(path,mode='wb') as out_file:
	out_file.write(data)

This doesn't respond to anything.

cvp

@shinya.ta said

When I pasted "gestures. py" into "Emoji Keyboard. py" and started it, I got the previous error.

As Emojis Keyboard.py imports gestures.py, you don't have to paste it, thus don't do that.

This doesn't respond to anything.

The little script does not respond something, it copies/replaces the modified Emojis Keyboard.py in your root folder.

Thus, please run my both little scripts and you will find anew Emojis Keyboard.py in your root folder