[Sugar-devel] Problem with Read activity and screen rotate feature

[Daniel Castelo]

I understand that user could associate the symbols of each game pad button
(square, circle, etc.) to mean certain things, But in Read Activity is not
the case, is like an exception. Users will associate "Down" And "Up" buttons
(depending on the screen position) with the PageUp PageDown action.

So, in my opinion and the experiencie of teachers in schools, will be more
intuitive for user change the action of each button when screen rotate.

Do yo know if I can catch the screen rotate event in the activity?

Thanks for your answers.
Regards, Daniel


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> In the Read activity in the build 353, the game key X and O keys do PageUp
> Page Down and the square and and check keys do zoom in / out.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Daniel Castelo <
> dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the information!
>> I've tested the build 351. I realize that the "Directional Pad" change the
>> Behaviour when the screen rotate. Great!
>>
>> However, in the Read Activity the "Directional Pad" is useful for go
>> forward line per line, but if you want to change the page you have to use
>> the "Game Buttons". So, for Read Activity will be useful adapt the "Game
>> Buttons" too. What do you think?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/17/2010 05:37 PM, Daniel Castelo wrote:
>>>
>>>> We want to read books using the rotate screen capability of XO.  We have
>>>> a
>>>> small problem,  if we open a book (pdf, epub) and we rotate the screen,
>>>>  the
>>>> game pad buttons have the same use that the screen in a normal position,
>>>> I
>>>> mean that user have to click in the "left game pad" button (the down
>>>> button
>>>> in horizontal position) to go to the next page.
>>>>
>>>> I think that all the game pad buttons have to be adapted according the
>>>> screen position. We want to know how can we catch the rotate screen
>>>> event,
>>>> and be sure that this change in "Read" behaviour activity has sense.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Daniel
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>
>>> this has been fixed in the recent OLPC builds [1]. The ticket is #10380
>>> [2]. Please let us know if that works for you now.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Simon
>>>
>>> [1] http://build.laptop.org/10.1.3/
>>> [2] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10380
>>>
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>>
>>
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Avda. Italia 6201
Montevideo - Uruguay.
Tel.: 2 601 57 73 Interno 2228
E-mail : dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
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