New Squeak Porting Proposals

Norton, Chris chrisn at Kronos.com
Tue Aug 17 19:24:03 UTC 1999


> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 11:08:00 -0700 "Raab, Andreas"
> <Andreas.Raab at disney.com> wrote: 
> >>      The stylus interface works, as you've implemented it.  It's just
> not
> >> very
> >> usable.  Because WinCE doesn't show the mouse cursor, and there is
> >> essentially
> >> only one button with now Cmd or Option keys, a lot of the Squeak
> interface
> >> is
> >> inaccessible (especially in Morphic).
> >> 
> >Do you have any idea how that could be fixed except from writing a
> complete
> >new UI for stylus based computers?!
> 
> Hmmm... What if the VM (or prehaps it could be done in Squeak) treated a
> stylus touching the screen and moving as simply a mouseMove and relied on
> an additional keypress to consider the touch as a mouseDown. One could
> also consider the software Apple developed for limited-access situations:
> repeatedly hitting the shift-key toggled a state thingie between various
> metakey combinations that were applied to normal keystrokes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
	[Norton, Chris]  I don't have a PDA, so I don't know if this
behavior is supported, but how about implementing double tap support to
indicate right mouse down?  If the menus were then set to default on "stay
open", the user could double tap on a widget, get the right mouse menu and
then proceed normally from there.

	You people are making me want to drop some $ on one of those toys...
;-)
	---==> Chris





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list