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

[Jim Gettys]

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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