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

[Brewster Kahle]

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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