[Sugar-devel] Hacking onto the "appearing" and "hiding" of OSK

[Jerry Vonau]

On 24 January 2013 08:11, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>wrote:
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>>>> So, it seems that just hacking onto the game-key won't help :(
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>>> No. Will not work, because the osk will appear if you touch over a input
>>> widget.
>>> The game keys are not the expected way to show the osk.
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>> Hmm.. which brings us back to square one :(
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> Let's try another way :P
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> Is there a way, so that we may know whether we are in ebook-mode, or
> normal-mode?
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Yes, there is a ebook switch event:

Jan 24 01:14:28 xo-1e-89-0d kernel: OLPC XO-1.75 lid and ebook switches
Jan 24 01:14:28 xo-1e-89-0d kernel: input: OLPC lid switch as
/devices/virtual/input/input3
Jan 24 01:14:28 xo-1e-89-0d kernel: input: OLPC ebook switch as
/devices/virtual/input/input4

Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev:
starting olpc-kbdshim-udev version 29
Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev: fd
4: found touchscreen (zForce touchscreen) /dev/input/event8 (18:00:00)
Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev: fd
6: found keyboard (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard) /dev/input/event5
(11:01:01)
Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev: fd
7: found touchpad (FSPPS/2 Sentelic FingerSensingPad) /dev/input/event9
(11:02:0f)

Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev: fd
8: found ebook switch

Jerry
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