摘要 |
A menu-based data input method and system that is particularly suitable for manual user data input to a computing device via a data entry device that may be integrated, for example, into a PDA. An initial menu is subsequently replaced by a subsequent menu upon effective initiation of a stroke in a selected region of the initial menu, and the stroke is indicated as continuing at a location within the subsequent menu that substantially corresponds to the location of the selected region with respect to the initial menu. Paths followed by the stroke are substantially irrelevant, except that if a stroke path traverses a modifier region within an intermediate menu then the intermediate menu is replaced by a further menu. Data items are indicated as corresponding to particular regions within a terminal menu, and the corresponding data item is entered into the computing device when a stroke is terminated within a particular region of the terminal menu. |