"Cees de Groot" cg@cdegroot.com wrote in message news:alprv3$s9t$1@home.cdegroot.com...
Chris Double chris@double.co.nz said:
- No mouse or stylus. Only a keyboard is available. There is a
'virtual cursor' that can be controlled with a direction pad but that could be quite painful to use.
There's a project on SourceForge (called epocmouse or something like that) that strives to develop the hard- and software to enable you to attach a
mouse
to the Communicator. The hardware seems to be there (schematics are on the site), and I think reading the serial port for mouse information would be
not
very hard. The project seems to have stalled; it's probably quite complex
to
insert a mouse driver into the OS and have it replace the direction pad,
but I
think on the level of a Squeak VM this would be a much simpler thing to tackle.
Is it then not feasible to write a mouse simulator that wraps the direction pad? I've only done a couple hours' work with the Symbian SDK, so I'm pretty much clueless as to its workings, unfortunately.
Would one then be able to craft a VM that didn't use a mouse? I'm thinking here of being able to write applications in Squeak to run on the phone, much as one writes Java ME apps...
frank