[Q][WinCE] How to send Jot/Keyboard input to Squeak?

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Wed Dec 29 07:08:34 UTC 1999


Brian,

> I've been using Squeak on CE for a little while, mostly 
> toying with enhancements for handhelds that I've been coding 
> up, but I haven't found a way to link the string output of 
> Jot or the keyboard to Squeak.  I'm still getting familiar 
> with WinCE programming, so not all of the VM sources make 
> much sense to me.  At any rate, is there a simple fix to 
> this, either at the user level or the VM-level?

I'm not sure what you mean by 'linking the string output of Jot or the
keyboard to Squeak'. Could you explain what the problem is?! (I'm assuming
that you have a workspace or something alike open in Squeak so that you can
actually *see* if there is some input ;-) You should try 'Sensor kbdTest' to
see if there is actually some input generated.

> Also, if possible, it'd be great to know if there's a way to 
> get the VM to 'force' its way to the top of the window stack 
> on start-up, so that I didn't have to use the Task-Switcher 
> to get to it.

I have no idea why Squeak isn't coming up in the foreground - I suspect that
reading the image takes so long (couple of seconds) that CE gets confused
(the window is opened after the image is read). If anyone knows the reason
for this (admittedly strange) behavior, please let me know.

  Andreas





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