Telephone-style input, XRecord, XMedia skins

[BobAtTorrey]

I've just installed GBPVR and intend to use it almost exclusively via the MVP.
I've been unable to get telephone-style keypad text entry to work with FastFind. Questions and issues:

1. FastFind appears with a layout of a QWERTY keyboard, and doesn't seem to accept telephone-style input. I've changed:
<Interface telephone="false" ....> to
<Interface telephone="true" ....> in the XRecord Blue skin.

Also, in the GBPVR Config program, Plugins Tab, XRecord Settings I've checked "Keyboard Telephone Style". And on the GBPVR Config, Misc tab I've checked "Treat number keys like telephone text entry" though I doubt that applies to FastFind.

Still no luck. How can I get this to work using the Blue skin. (I started with the XMedia Platinum skin. More on that below related to this issue.)

2. There are different methods of telephone keypad entry of alpha text. How is this one supposed to work? (E.g., Timed repetitions? 'Shift' keys? If so, which ones?)

3. If it does work, is it supposed to display a phone-type keypad on the screen rather than the QWERTY keyboard?

4. I mentioned above that the XRecord skin.xml file has the line regarding the telephone interface. Why is that in the XRecord skin, and not in the FastFind skin?

5. The XRecord skin.xml has the <Interface telephone ...> parameter in both the Blue and Red Sky skins. However, I note that the XMedia Platinum skin doesn't include this in its XRecord skin. Does this mean that the XMedia Platinum skin drops functionality that XRecord/FastFind would have had in the standard Blue or Red Sky skins?

All help will be appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

[jorm]

5) it is not included in the skin. You can copy it from the blue into the xmedia skin.

4) both xrecord and fastfind have their own keyboard. There is probably a telephone setting in the fastfind

3) no, when you press the numbers for example 2 it would place an A when you hit 2 again it becomes a B etc.... To do two A's in a row hit 2 any other (ex key direction) then hit 2 again.

<Interface telephone="true" ....> is the one you want.

[BobAtTorrey]

jorm,
1. Using telephone-style, how do you enter a number? I.e., hitting the 2 key repeatedly changes the character as abcabcabcabc. (I might have thought abc2abc2abc2.)

2. How is one meant to erase the last character displayed? I might have thought the "back" button on the remote, or the 'Reverse' or 'Replay' button, (I.e., things which seem to indicate 'backward'.) The only way I could find to do it was to move to the 'Backspace' bar on the on-screen keyboard and then hit OK.

Thanks.

[jorm]

2 hitting the 1 button should delete a character.

1. In the next release.