[Sugar-devel] Hacking onto the "appearing" and "hiding" of OSK
Ajay Garg
ajay at activitycentral.com
Mon Jan 28 12:50:19 EST 2013
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> ajay wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > A simple solution was found :)
> >
> > I hacked the "KP_Prior" and "KP_Next" keys, and now they are used for
> > making-window-smaller and restoring-original-window-size respectively :)
>
> so sugar takes over those keys? aren't those keys used by activities?
> they're certainly useful in a terminal -- page up and page down.
>
Hmm.. Well a simple "grepping" showed that the "Read" activity is the only
activity that explicitly makes use of the "KP_Home" and "KP_End" keys; but
none seemed to make use of "KP_Prior" and "KP_Next".
> paul
>
> >
> > All thanks to
> > * /usr/share/X11/xkb/keycodes/evdev
> > * sugar/src/jarabe/view/keyhandler.py
> >
> >
> >
> > Just one thing I noticed when I tried to have the above keys take
> effect
> > ONLY in ebook-mode (via the "evtest --query" test), that when I ran this
> > again and again via the "suprocess" module, the XO-4 behaved very
> > erratically. However, when I made the keys take effect irrespective of
> the
> > test of ebook-mode, things worked cool. However, I will keep on looking
> > into the reason.
> >
> >
> > Thanks a ton to all :)
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> > > gonzalo wrote:
> > > > Write does not know what is the ebook switch state, that logic is
> in the
> > > > osk.
> > > >
> > > > Looking in the wiki and sugar code, I could not find information
> about
> > > how
> > > > read the switch,
> > > > but in ticket http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12326 found this:
> > > >
> > > > If you do:
> > > >
> > > > evtest --query /dev/input/event4 EV_SW SW_TABLET_MODE; echo $?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If the xo is in ebook mode returns 10, if not, returns 0.
> > > >
> > > > There are any official doc about the switches I am missing? There
> are a
> > > way
> > > > to catch a event when the switch is activated, using dbus or
> something
> > > > similar?
> > >
> > > if you open the device and read it, you'll get a stream of "struct
> > > input_event" structures (/usr/include/linux/input.h) representing
> > > opening and closing of the SW_TABLET_MODE switch. here's a C code
> > > snippet from olpc-switchd (part of powerd):
> > >
> > > void ebook_event()
> > > {
> > > struct input_event ev[1];
> > >
> > > if (read(ebk_fd, ev, sizeof(ev)) != sizeof(ev))
> > > die("bad read from ebook switch");
> > >
> > > dbg(3, "ebk: ev sec %d usec %d type %d code %d value %d",
> > > ev->time.tv_sec, ev->time.tv_usec,
> > > ev->type, ev->code, ev->value);
> > >
> > > if (ev->type == EV_SW && ev->code == SW_TABLET_MODE) {
> > > if (ev->value)
> > > send_event("ebookclose", round_secs(ev), ebk_device);
> > > else
> > > send_event("ebookopen", round_secs(ev), ebk_device);
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > perhaps there's an evdev to dbus gateway of some sort, but i don't
> know
> > > about it, if so.
> > >
> > > the "evtest" commandline example, above, uses an ioctl on the input
> > > device to determine current state. here's snippet from the evtest
> source:
> > > (full source: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/evtest)
> > >
> > > static int query_device(const char *device, const struct
> query_mode
> > > *query_mode>
> > > {
> > > int fd;
> > > int r;
> > > unsigned long state[NBITS(query_mode->max)];
> > >
> > > fd = open(device, O_RDONLY);
> > > if (fd < 0) {
> > > perror("open");
> > > return EXIT_FAILURE;
> > > }
> > > memset(state, 0, sizeof(state));
> > > r = ioctl(fd, query_mode->rq, state);
> > > close(fd);
> > >
> > > if (r == -1) {
> > > perror("ioctl");
> > > return EXIT_FAILURE;
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (test_bit(keycode, state))
> > > return 10; /* different from EXIT_FAILURE */
> > > else
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > paul
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Gonzalo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Martin Langhoff <
> > > martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> > > > > > i believe sugar already has code to detect the two modes, since
> > > > > > that's how it knows whether to present the OSK or not.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yep. Ajay, I think Write shows you the way :-)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > m
> > > > > --
> > > > > martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> > > > > martin at laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
> > > > > - ask interesting questions
> > > > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first
> > > > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
> > > > >
> > >
> > > =---------------------
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ajay Garg
> > Dextrose Developer
> > Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
>
> =---------------------
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Ajay Garg
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