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

[Brewster Kahle]

we can construct anything, but pdf is the best for us-- we have them 
built now.

the old revision of software used to play our pdf's (but crash after a 
minute or so), but they dont run at all in the new release (by clicking 
from the web browser).   the "flip book" javascript viewer works, but 
the pages should be one-up and rotated so they fill the screen.

Here is an example book:
http://www.archive.org/details/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft

flip book is here:
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft

pdf is here:
http://www.archive.org/download/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft.pdf

thank you for the help.

-brewster



Jim Gettys wrote:
> 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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