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

Thiede, Christoph Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de
Wed Sep 9 21:24:03 UTC 2020


Very interesting project!

By the way, I am suffering from similar DPI problems on my Windows laptop (the font just does not get large enough). If you can port some of your changes made for PostmarketOS back to the Trunk, this would be great.
<http://www.hpi.de/>

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

That looks very promising indeed. Thanks for the video.

Dave

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 04:14:59PM +0200, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> 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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