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

Vanessa Freudenberg vanessa at codefrau.net
Sat Sep 12 21:25:24 UTC 2020


Ha, talk about a trip down memory lane! I had no idea that still existed :)

- Vanessa -

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 5:42 AM karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is also the Frank stuff which probably have some of the same multi
> cursor funktionality:
> http://tinlizzie.org/~bert/frank4ipad/
>
> One can download the Frank.ipa and unzip to look at the image.
>
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 5:04 PM Tony Garnock-Jones <
> tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vanessa,
>>
>> On 9/10/20 10:23 PM, Vanessa Freudenberg wrote:
>> > Oh, exciting! Please record a multi-hand Etoys demo. Maybe like this:
>> > https://youtu.be/gYrp31fH-Jk?t=56
>>
>> Whoa, awesome! I didn't know this existed!
>>
>> I have questions!
>>
>>  - How much of that shift-to-get-other-colour-buttons support is still
>> in the image? So far I haven't touched the default world menu bar, which
>> is mildly inappropriate for small and/or multitouch devices.
>>
>>  - What other ideas about mapping multitouch to Morphic interaction are
>> out there I have missed and am in danger of reinventing?
>>
>> Also, I am intrigued by the idea of simply having each touch be mapped
>> to a Hand. It seems like the obvious way to do things, on one level, but
>> doesn't quite fit my fuzzy intuitions for how (multi-finger) gesture
>> recognition might work on another level. So:
>>
>>  - When you were working on this, did you have any thoughts about
>> deficiencies of the Morphic model wrt multitouch/gestures/etc., and then
>> did you have any ideas about what to change and how to change it?
>>
>> I'll try to cook up a little demo like that sometime soon.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>
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