Using a keyboard with Squeak on the Nokia 770/N800
Aaron Reichow
revaaron at bitquabit.com
Thu Jun 21 17:28:06 UTC 2007
Hey all,
Just a little note- I've had some luck using my bluetooth Keyboard
with my Nokia N800 and Squeak. I mention this specifically because
with a keyboard, the Nokia N800/770 makes a cool little laptop- I'm
building a simple laptopish case out of cardboard and because teh
Maemo platform the Nokias run on is a bit funky with regards to
input- e.g. unlike on CE, you don't have access to the OS-level
software keyboard, etc to input into Squeak, and as such we've relied
on Genie or soft-keyboards inside Squeak to input text. Since the KB
doesn't support the HID profile, you have to use a driver.
Driver: http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/
Keyboard I'm using: http://www.freedominput.com/site/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=28
The keyboard I'm using, but which uses the standard HID profile,
which is a better way of doing things in many ways:
http://freedominput.com/site/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=34
What is great about the Freedom BT keyboards is that unlike every
other foldable I've seen they have a number row. Makes a huge
difference if you're coding- on the IrDA keyboard I had for the
Zaurus I had to press two keymodifiers to get a lot of punctuation
chars like [, etc. The keyboard has been working well, but no Alt-
modifiers present or interpreted by the driver; Ctrl- and Shift-
clicking work fine, and there is a key which seems to be mapped to
escape which is handy for bringing up context menus.
Not sure if regular HID-compliant keyboards (which just work on the
Nokias) work in Squeak, but I don't see why they wouldn't.
Just a little info for those wanting to make a novy-HandheldPC-cum-
Dynabook out of a Nokia 770/N800. :)
Regards,
Aaron
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