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Linda
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 What you have been waiting for, SoftFrog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8AiUmueD0Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDBrhVNSpjI
It has been awhile since I have posted on FrogBlog. I have wanted to finish our latest developments before announcing. Yet some of the alphas we sent out were distributed. So I wanted to be the first to let you know what we are up to. FrogPad has IP since 1998 for multi touch applications. It is the IP that allows for FrogPad to work on our Hardware FrogPad. We offer that some of the BIG BOYS are stepping on our patents, yet of course they have more money than GAWD so we prefer to join them. In the Interim, we have developed the downloadable Froggie.

We are working with some other BIG BOYS to license this downloadable product, which we call SoftFrog for multi touch mobile phones and tablets. The apps are working in Alpha now for mobiles using a particular SDK of a company whose name shall not be spoken and tablets using Win 7 and N-Trig technologies. Now that Google has announced that Android will be multi touch, we are committed to developing this app for Android too. This will be developed with a partner.

If you want to be part of a beta group send an email to beta at frogpad dot com if you have an iPhone/iTouch with OS3.0 or Dell Latitude XT with Win7.

What we cannot tell you is what the app will do. And what we can tell you is that we will have an API and SDK for you to use to develop more apps. We will be using a similar licensing model as the JAVA licensing model.

Bottom Line: we will again manufacure the hardware, yet at the moment, we are concentrating on Softy.

Linda
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 Re: What you have been waiting for, SoftFrog (Linda)

Our latest video on Downloadable FrogPad, SoftFrog http://itunes.hccs.edu/images/New_FrogPad.mp4 [URL][/URL]
Frank
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 Re: What you have been waiting for, SoftFrog (Linda)

Great video, much better than the first two you've posted on YouTube with the dubious soundtracks. (why don't you upload this new video on YouTube?)

The demo on the Dell XT looks pretty nice and impressive.
Sadly the demo on the iPhone not. The input speed on the iPhone is rather slow, and for a demonstration I expect that the user, who used the iPhone to input the text is familiar with the FrogPad technology. And because this user is not able to type very fast, I have little hope for your current application. It seems to be much faster to enter text with the fingers on an QWERTY layout on the iPhone than with this SoftFrog. So either your demonstration typer isn't capable of typing on a FrogPad layout or it's just not possible with this version of the SoftFrog at the moment.
That's an serious issue you should address.

The demonstration on the Dell XT however looks promisingly. Data entry seems easy and quite fast, still not as fast as I would like. But maybe it's the typers fault, again, which should be fixed immediately then.
It also seems that your application isn't that great coded. The main program always loses the focus, the SoftFrog receives the focus, SoftFrog switches focus back and then sends the key code. Pretty poor implementation of an on-screen keyboard. Just take a look at the TIP or other on-screen-keyboards. The better coded ones do not have to steal the focus from the main window. You should try to do it the same way, else I don't expect that this version will be compatible with every text input controls/windows.
I also miss some tactile feedback. At least a typical keyboard key sound should appear (on and off switchable) when you enter something. And maybe a sound or other notification, like complete screen color change, which shows the user that he has his fingers in the right position.
Things which are needed if you want to touch type on a touch screen display.


I don't know how you want to make it 'downloadable'. Free, open source, do we have to pay for it?
Well, I don't have a multi-touch device yet, so I wouldn't use this software at all. But if I had a multi-touch capable device already, like the Dell XT then, I'm honest, wouldn't pay a penny for this software, sorry.
For free, as an public alpha tester, well then I think a lot of people will give this a try and help you to improve it, however I don't expect that some will pay something for this early version.

My opinion.

I hope you'll give us more informations about this interesting piece of software soon.

Davaris
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What would be neat is a little touch screen that plugs into your PC via a USB port with the FrogPad software loaded on it. If people were able to reprogram it, it would be a must have item!
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have you seen the new multi-touch tablet from wacom? it's called the wacom bamboo - http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/. it would be awesome if you could integrate the frogpad into that to get an all-in-one mouse/keyboard/drawling tablet! please check out this technology linda!
clarkm


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something else that came out today was the apple magic mouse ---- wow wouldnt that be awesome if we could get multi touch right on the mouse! please keep working linda!!!!
Linda
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 Re: (clarkm)

We are , we are!
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