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

[Paul Fox]

jerry wrote:
 > On 24 January 2013 08:11, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > >
 > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>wrote:
 > >
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>wrote:
 > >>
 > >>> ....
 > >>>
 > >>>> So, it seems that just hacking onto the game-key won't help :(
 > >>>>
 > >>>
 > >>> 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.
 > >>>
 > >>
 > >> Hmm.. which brings us back to square one :(
 > >>
 > >
 > >
 > > Let's try another way :P
 > >
 > > Is there a way, so that we may know whether we are in ebook-mode, or
 > > normal-mode?
 > >
 > >
 > Yes, there is a ebook switch event:

i believe sugar already has code to detect the two modes, since
that's how it knows whether to present the OSK or not.

paul

 > 
 > 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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