New Squeak Porting Proposals

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Tue Aug 17 19:06:03 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





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