[squeak-dev] Squeak on tablets

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 06:17:03 UTC 2013


Convertible laptops like the Lenovo X230t run standard PC operating
systems where the touch screen operates the mouse.  I have begun to
appreciate touch screen input this way, but miss the legacy mouse
ability to simply "point" at something.  Nonetheless, it has been
novel to use the included stylus with Squeak's Paint morph to draw,
and the finger touch to activate buttons, etc.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, OpenSlate ChalkDust
<openslateproj at gmail.com> wrote:
> As some of you know I spent quite a bit of time getting nowhere trying to
> get Squeak running on top of FreeBSD in a tablet form factor.The situation
> has changed considerably, in that the world has gone tablet crazy. Typically
> using fingers rather than a mouse or stylus.
>
> I would appreciate any recommendations on what tablets work well with
> squeak, and what to avoid. What has been done to adapt the three-button
> mouse squeak expects to have to a fingertip input? Then of course there is
> keyboard input in general, including keyboard shortcuts.
>
> I'd be happy to collect the results in a table on Google Drive.
>
> --
> Gary Dunn
> Open Slate Project
> http://openslate.org/
>
>
>


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