Squeak on Nokia 800
Brian Rice
water at tunes.org
Thu Feb 7 08:55:21 UTC 2008
On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Dan Ingalls wrote:
>> Squeak isn't good when it comes to dealing with hardware. There are
>> too many
>> hardcoded references to PC keyboard layout (like shiftPressed
>> etc.). The VM
>> needs a plugin to map system-specific keycodes and buttons to soft
>> buttons in
>> Squeak. Squeak badly needs a soft keyboard.
>
> Check out my PianoKeyboardMorph from the previous century. It's
> less than a page (and somewhat harder since it supports glissandi);
> it should make a fine soft keyboard by just rewriting the layout
> method. Shouldn't take a good Squeaker more than an hour or two.
InputMethods from http://squeaksource.com/Faure/ has some descendants
of this code, slightly generalized. Yes, I've planned for all of this,
muhahahaha! *ahem* :)
(For an encore, someone should mention iPhone LayerKit aka Core
Animation transitions.)
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-Brian
http://briantrice.com
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