Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind!

I gave it a good go yesterday, but don't have enough Morphic chops to
quite get it to work right: the problem was that if I let the ALT
modifier apply to the next click, then there are two possibilities:

 - the next click is to a key on the keyboard
 - the next click is off the keyboard somewhere

Really you only want the synthetic blue-click when it's off the
keyboard, but you don't know that at the time you're synthesising the
event...

It'd be interesting if anyone with more Morphic experience than I could
suggest a good way forward!

I ended up giving up and switching to having three red/yellow/blue
buttons at the bottom of the keyboard that act like shift keys and
require multiple touches simultaneously. (Image attached)

So the keyboard shift/ctrl/alt work as you describe, but only for
entering text. The coloured buttons at the bottom work differently, more
like a real keyboard's shift key, and only for clicking on things.

Also there are lots of weirdnesses around switching projects, so it's
definitely pre-alpha! Also some oddness with scrollbars not being
draggable (though windows are draggable). And for some reason popping up
a halo on the World via a simulated yellow-click results in 100% CPU
usage and a hung image that needs the VM to be interrupted? (And an
unrelated issue, I can't seem to disable balloon help.)

But in the end I feel pretty happy with it. It works surprisingly well
for a day's hacking.

(I just now used the on-screen keyboard to reprogram the on-screen
keyboard to have an escape key! Woo! Final step: OnScreenKeyboardMorph
rebuildFlap, alt-D, reopen the flap... presto, an escape key! Finally, a
programmable cellphone)

Tony



On 10/6/20 3:20 AM, Vanessa Freudenberg wrote:
> Looks cool!
> 
> For phone-sized screens you probably want one-handed operations. I'd
> imagine tapping e.g. alt would cause the next tap to have the "alt"
> modifier bit set. So if tapping a key after alt, it would be alt-key,
> but when tapping outside the keyboard after tapping alt, it would be
> interpreted as blue-click. 
> 
> Vanessa
> 
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:24 AM Tony Garnock-Jones
> <tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com <mailto:tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm going to see if control-click and cmd-click (via virtual keyboard)
>     will work out OK. If not (and perhaps in addition) I will experiment
>     with something like in Vanessa's recently-reposted video from 2010, with
>     a little "shift" key in a screen corner.
> 
>     Tony
> 
> 
>     On 10/5/20 5:09 PM, Herbert wrote:
>     > Coool!! How are right/middle click (panned to be) handled?
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     >
>     >
>     > Herbert
>     >
>     > Am 05.10.20 um 17:04 schrieb Tony Garnock-Jones:
>     >> image snipped
>     >>
>     >
>     >
> 
> 
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