Sounds very great.

My 2 PDA(*) are ready for your needs.

Cheers.

(*)
iPaq 4150 (BT, Wifi, 400MHZ, 64RAM, 320x200)
	- Runs WM2003 and can run Linux Familiar.

XDA Himalaya (a.k.a. O2 XDAII, Qtek 2020...)
  http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Himalaya
  Now has WM2005 and is phone too.



Brian Rice escribió:
> Hello all,
> 
> After a recent stint at a product prototyping company that had a lot of
> work going on for touchscreen interfaces, I came back to Squeak and
> looked at the state of handheld software/development support for Squeak,
> and found it stagnant. So I decided to take matters into my own hands.
> 
> First, the Squeak on Handhelds wiki page:
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/Handhelds
> 
> Which links to Dynapad (dead sourceforge project, although the author
> Aaron Reichow is still a handhelds-using Squeaker with custom images)
> and Faure (not dead, just not updated and a bit buggy/incomplete). I
> started with Faure, since it has an actual framework for PalmOS-style
> user interfaces and browsing. It has a Url framework that supports
> addressing of various PIM data as well as browsing and editing source
> code and file system entries. There's also a little support for
> including other applications as "pages" to visit (leaves in a browsing
> tree).
> 
> So I contacted Russell Allen, who created Faure:
>  http://www.russell-allen.com/squeak/faure/
> and he claims he's busy with other things and didn't mind if I started
> working with it. So we now share a SqueakSource project:
>  http://www.squeaksource.com/Faure.html
> where I've been cleaning up the framework and setting it up to be more
> extensible.
> 
> I contacted Aaron and he was nice enough to sell me his Nokia 770 after
> he upgraded to the 800, so I've had a platform to test the various
> PDA-oriented images out there.
> 
> My overall goal is to have a space where most
> handhelds/touchscreen-oriented code can be collected and collaborated
> on. Specifically, I want to gather attention about specific topics:
> Personal Information Management (PIM or PDA data):
>   - contacts, email, messaging, todos, calendaring
>   (See PDA/PDAMorph which I want to replace with a Magritte-based solution)
> Idea-processing:
>   - note-taking, drawing, sculpting, outlining, brainstorming.
>   (Faure has some basic stuff, and Dynapad *did*, but Golgi
> Touchscreen Input Interfaces:
>   - stylus or fingers, gestures or pushbuttons.
>   (See Genie, and now the InputMethods package in Faure's SqS repository
> which gathers a ThumbPadMorph and a simple QwertyKeyboardMorph from Faure).
>   - One thing I need to figure out is how to use a click on a widget to
> make the next mouse click show up as a modifier+click or just 2nd/3rd
> moues button click. I'm probably close but it's a key feature to making
> a soft keyboard widget complete.
> Simpler screen management:
>   - Faure's single-pane browsing, or dual-pane browsing for wider
> screens, a universal navigation system (like Faure but hopefully merging
> with OmniBrowser's framework so less code is needed).
>   - Simple sweep / flick gestures a la Apple phone interface for
> navigation.
>   - A way to detect screen size on startup and do something intelligent
> about it. 240x320 was almost ubiquitous for a while but now there's
> quite a variety of resolutions.
>   - A way to detect what device Squeak is on and map key controls
> appropriately. I discovered that the Squeak VM doesn't distinguish
> function keys from each other and that the Nokia 770 maps some keys to
> these X11 key-codes, and I imagine that other small platforms have
> similar issues.
> 
> I'd like to know: What solo projects are hiding in the woodwork that
> would benefit from this kind of collaboration? Who wants to donate code
> for this project to maintain?
> 
> I've seen and started poking at Tansel's 4MB previously-commercial demo
> image, all of Aaron Reichow's images, and Pavel's KernelImages (which
> I'd prefer going forward since I can automate builds of them that way).
> Craig says he has a pie-menu-like soft-keyboard tool that he uses on
> touchscreens, which sounds interesting.
> 
> I should also state that it's important for an end-user to have
> something they can grab immediately for handhelds and touchscreens from
> squeak.org that is self-explanatory in the sense that it should always
> be obvious what is available to do in the current current context, and
> what modes or quasi-modes are available (especially for Genie which
> turns the whole screen into a different mode without telling you or
> giving a novice an easy escape).
> 
> I'd also like to know who's interested in the work and might have
> something to contribute. Oh, and how I should organize the project,
> maybe to rename the SqueakSource project to "Dynapad" or "Handhelds" or
> such, for example?
> 
> Comments/criticisms/concerns?
> 
> -- 
> -Brian
> http://briantrice.com
> 
> 
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