[squeak-dev] Squeak on a cellphone responds to touchscreen input now (was Re: Squeak on a PostmarketOS cellphone)

Marcel Taeumel marcel.taeumel at hpi.de
Wed Sep 9 17:10:55 UTC 2020


> ... and IIRC necessary for Japanese input…

Because you need a virtual keyboard for that case? Hmm.... 

Best.
Marcel
Am 09.09.2020 16:32:58 schrieb Tobias Pape <das.linux at gmx.de>:
> On 09.09.2020, at 16:28, Marcel Taeumel wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> there are still traces of a rather ancient #ImmPlugin that was meant to tell the OS where to put that virtual keyboard:

I dont know wether anciet cuts it. It's regularly shipped with the Linux VM and IIRC necessary for Japanese input…

Best regards
-Tobias

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>
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> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 09.09.2020 16:15:10 schrieb Tony Garnock-Jones :
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been hacking on Squeak-on-a-cellphone a bit more. Now the image can
>> scan /proc/bus/input/devices and /dev/input/event* (using FFI, AioPlugin
>> and OSProcess), and is able to open touchscreen-like devices and set up
>> additional World HandMorphs for them.
>>
>> There's a short (2 minute) demo video linked here:
>> https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/09/09/squeak-postmarketos-touchscreen
>>
>> I think next I might get Squeak to boot and configure the cellular
>> modem, and get it making calls.
>>
>> Alternatively, perhaps an on-screen keyboard? Does anyone know if
>> anything like that already exists for Squeak?
>>
>> Technical details: it uses my Actors library for Squeak, plus some (not
>> yet released, but only because of laziness) code for the Linux-specific
>> stuff on the image side.
>>
>> It uses a stock Cog VM.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/27/20 8:42 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've recently been playing with Squeak running on a PostmarketOS phone
>> > (Samsung Galaxy S7).
>> >
>> > Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
>> > the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey?
>> > Thanks Ken!)
>> >
>> > I wrote about progress so far here:
>> > https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/25/postmarketos-smalltalk
>> >
>> > Today I posted an update with a saner DPI setting for the phone's
>> > display: https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/27/squeak-postmarketos-update
>> >
>> > Next on the list is to read touchscreen input from /dev/input/event1!
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Tony
>> >
>>
>



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