do the directional pad (d-pad or directional buttons) work on B1 hardware?

[Jim Gettys]

What format is the book source in?  HTML, PDF, bitmap?
                             - Jim



On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:49 -0800, Brewster Kahle wrote:
> thank you for the quick reply.   we will be hacking something tomorrow.
> 
> would you guess the quickest way to get a demo is browser/javascript?
> 
> the other approach seems to be python GTK.
> 
> Any early guidance to keep us from a rathole would be appreciated.
> 
> -brewster
> 
> 
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Hi, Brewster,
> > 
> > This sort of question would normally go to the devel at laptop.org list,
> > where the low level types hang out.  I might discuss the detailed UI
> > design on sugar at laptop.org, where the UI people tend to hang out, and
> > this list for library related items themselves.  At least that would be
> > my take on it.
> > 
> > Yes, the buttons should work.
> > 
> > They appear to be keyboard keys.
> > 
> > I don't remember if we have X keysyms all hooked up for them this
> > instant or not, but it should be possible without much trouble: we only
> > got rotation running very recently.
> > 
> > On the BTest-1 systems, holding multiple keys down at once may not
> > result in separate key events; this should be fixed in BTest-2.
> >                                 Best regards,
> >                                       - Jim Gettys
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:02 -0800, Brewster Kahle wrote:
> >> We are trying to make a quick and dirty demo of a few images of book 
> >> pages showing up on the screen.    tablet mode, we think, will make the 
> >> best demo.   we would like to use the directional buttons to flip 
> >> between pages.
> >>
> >> In preparation for a programmer working on this (sorry if this is 
> >> obvious) does anyone know if these buttons send a character to the machine?
> >>
> >> also, is this the right list for talking about book viewers?
> >>
> >> -brewster
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