[squeak-dev] Squeak on a cellphone responds to touchscreen input now (was Re: Squeak on a PostmarketOS cellphone)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed Sep 9 15:25:17 UTC 2020


That looks very promising indeed. Thanks for the video.

Dave

On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 04:14:59PM +0200, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been hacking on Squeak-on-a-cellphone a bit more. Now the image can
> scan /proc/bus/input/devices and /dev/input/event* (using FFI, AioPlugin
> and OSProcess), and is able to open touchscreen-like devices and set up
> additional World HandMorphs for them.
> 
> There's a short (2 minute) demo video linked here:
> https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/09/09/squeak-postmarketos-touchscreen
> 
> I think next I might get Squeak to boot and configure the cellular
> modem, and get it making calls.
> 
> Alternatively, perhaps an on-screen keyboard? Does anyone know if
> anything like that already exists for Squeak?
> 
> Technical details: it uses my Actors library for Squeak, plus some (not
> yet released, but only because of laziness) code for the Linux-specific
> stuff on the image side.
> 
> It uses a stock Cog VM.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Tony
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/27/20 8:42 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've recently been playing with Squeak running on a PostmarketOS phone
> > (Samsung Galaxy S7).
> > 
> > Many thanks to those who recently landed the ARMv8 build of Cog. (Per
> > the commit history I think the main person responsible was Ken Dickey?
> > Thanks Ken!)
> > 
> > I wrote about progress so far here:
> > https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/25/postmarketos-smalltalk
> > 
> > Today I posted an update with a saner DPI setting for the phone's
> > display: https://eighty-twenty.org/2020/08/27/squeak-postmarketos-update
> > 
> > Next on the list is to read touchscreen input from /dev/input/event1!
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Tony
> > 
> 


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