Squeak on Nokia 800

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Thu Feb 7 08:55:21 UTC 2008


On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Dan Ingalls wrote:

>> Squeak isn't good when it comes to dealing with hardware. There are  
>> too many
>> hardcoded references to PC keyboard layout (like shiftPressed  
>> etc.). The VM
>> needs a plugin to map system-specific keycodes and buttons to soft  
>> buttons in
>> Squeak. Squeak badly needs a soft keyboard.
>
> Check out my PianoKeyboardMorph from the previous century.  It's  
> less than a page (and somewhat harder since it supports glissandi);   
> it should make a fine soft keyboard by just rewriting the layout  
> method.  Shouldn't take a good Squeaker more than an hour or two.


InputMethods from http://squeaksource.com/Faure/ has some descendants  
of this code, slightly generalized. Yes, I've planned for all of this,  
muhahahaha! *ahem* :)

(For an encore, someone should mention iPhone LayerKit aka Core  
Animation transitions.)

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-Brian
http://briantrice.com




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