Word suggestions sometimes does not activate
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:41 am
Hi
Just bought the keyboard and think it works good, faster than HTC's keyboard on my Wildfire and better features than anything I've seen.
However, there is one major flaw as I can see, at least on my phone (which is basically a Hero). If I type a word and press space, and then tap on another key really fast, almost at the same time as I let go of the space key, I get no word suggestions. An example:
I type the word "You", press space, let go of the space key and type "ans" and then space, it corrects it to "and" and all is fine. But if I type "You" and press space, and as soon as I let go or the space-key I press "a" and continue typing "ns" to get the word "ans", I get just "ans" and no suggestions at all.
I've been trying to learn how to reproduce this bug and I've found out that if I hold space and press the nextcoming letter, let's say "a" really briefly (just tap it) it won't give me any suggestions, but if I hold "a" just for a little while, 100-200ms perhaps, I will get the suggestions. And, this only happens when I HOLD the space key during pressing the "a"-key. If I let go of it and press the key it won't matter how briefly I tap the key, it still works. Must be something with multitouch with space and the word suggestions not being able to launch somehow.
As I said in the example, it gets that fault if I press the "a"-key (very briefly as I usually press the keys) as soon as I let go of the space-key. Could it be that it takes some time to register that I've let go of the space-key so it basically thinks I'm pressing both space and "a" at the same time, thus making a very brief "a"-press not launch the word suggestion?
I'm not sure if my phone's just slow but I mean it's basically a hero spec-wise so it should work fine. Could someone try to write a word, hold space and tap the next key VERY quickly and see if you get any word suggestions? Could this perhaps be related to the other multitouch-issues people have reported? Is it possible to disable Multitouch on just the space-key so it's impossible for the phone to think I press the space and "a"-key at the same time when typing really fast?
Just bought the keyboard and think it works good, faster than HTC's keyboard on my Wildfire and better features than anything I've seen.
However, there is one major flaw as I can see, at least on my phone (which is basically a Hero). If I type a word and press space, and then tap on another key really fast, almost at the same time as I let go of the space key, I get no word suggestions. An example:
I type the word "You", press space, let go of the space key and type "ans" and then space, it corrects it to "and" and all is fine. But if I type "You" and press space, and as soon as I let go or the space-key I press "a" and continue typing "ns" to get the word "ans", I get just "ans" and no suggestions at all.
I've been trying to learn how to reproduce this bug and I've found out that if I hold space and press the nextcoming letter, let's say "a" really briefly (just tap it) it won't give me any suggestions, but if I hold "a" just for a little while, 100-200ms perhaps, I will get the suggestions. And, this only happens when I HOLD the space key during pressing the "a"-key. If I let go of it and press the key it won't matter how briefly I tap the key, it still works. Must be something with multitouch with space and the word suggestions not being able to launch somehow.
As I said in the example, it gets that fault if I press the "a"-key (very briefly as I usually press the keys) as soon as I let go of the space-key. Could it be that it takes some time to register that I've let go of the space-key so it basically thinks I'm pressing both space and "a" at the same time, thus making a very brief "a"-press not launch the word suggestion?
I'm not sure if my phone's just slow but I mean it's basically a hero spec-wise so it should work fine. Could someone try to write a word, hold space and tap the next key VERY quickly and see if you get any word suggestions? Could this perhaps be related to the other multitouch-issues people have reported? Is it possible to disable Multitouch on just the space-key so it's impossible for the phone to think I press the space and "a"-key at the same time when typing really fast?