[Sugar-devel] Some queries regarding the Maliit OSK

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter.
>
>
>   * I cloned the "walters-gtk-touch" repository, build the bundle, and
> deployed on my XO-4.
>     The OSK appeared fine now :)
>
>     First issue solved !
>
>
>   * However, any "thought" hidden by the OSK, cannot have the text added.
>
>
>   * I then encapsulated the "gtk.Fixed" within a "gtk.ScrolledWindow".
>     Now, the "window-resizing-upon-OSK-appearance" solution worked, enabling
> the user to enter text in widgets
>     even in the lower part of the window.
>
>     Second issue solved !!
>

Where is your patch? I'd like to look at it? Did you enable screen
dragging? If so, how do you distinguish between dragging and adding a
new Thought?

>
>   * Now, we know that a textwidget is mainly subjected to four types of
> actions upon a click ::
>
>         1)
>         If the click is "left" and "inside" the textwidget, text needs to be
> entered.
>
>         2)
>         If the click is "left" and "on the boundary" of the textwidget, and
> the "click held on", the textwidget needs to be resized.
>
>         3)
>         If the click is "right" and "on the boundary" of the textwidget, and
> then the "left-click-drag" is done, the widget needs to be moved.
>
>         4)
>         If the click is "left" and "outside" a textwidget, a new textwidget
> is spawned.
>
>
>
> As  can be seeen, there are two issues with the above four scenarios in
> tablet-mode::
>
>         a)
>         Cases [1], [2] and [4] are more easily segregated/differentiated
> using a mouse-pointer, but might be very hard to get "bang on",
>         when using a finger (in tablet-mode).
>
>         b)
>         Case [3] does not work at all in tablet-mode.
>
>
> Just makes me wonder whether an activity like Labyrinth is more suitable
> only in non-touch mode ???

Any app that involves text input and fine motor positioning is
probably better suited to laptop mode. But that said, you apparently
didn't notice the new button I added to the toolbar to invoke "move"
mode. It handles Case 3. And it is more "Sugary" than right-click (the
use of which violates the design guidelines and has always been a real
annoyance in Labyrinth.

regards.

-walter
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi all.
>>> >
>>> > In activities like FotoToon and Labyrinth, it is seen that the OSK does
>>> > not
>>> > appear in ebook-mode (whereas it appears fine in other activities,
>>> > wherever
>>> > it ought to be).
>>> >
>>> > My belief is that it is due to the incompatablity of FotoToon and
>>> > Labyrinth
>>> > widgets, as compared to the other activities.
>>> > So, is there a way to have the maliit OSK come up in this cases too
>>> > (perhaps
>>> > through any configuration tweek in maliit)?
>>> >
>>> > I am sorry for such a vague question, but any pointers will be highly
>>> > appreciated :)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Ajay
>>> >
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > Sugar-devel mailing list
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>>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>>> >
>>>
>>> Your assumption is correct. The OSK is invoked from a textview widget.
>>> I have a version of Labyrinth working with textview (See [1]).
>>> Flavio is working on the GTK3 port.
>>>
>>> Note that [1] is a slight compromise from the way that Labyrinth
>>> currently works in that, for expediency, I am processing the text
>>> attributes for the entire thought as opposed to multiple attributes
>>> per thought. (This is really complex and convoluted in Labyrinth and,
>>> IMHO, I don't think it is worth the additional effort at this point).
>>>
>>> Regarding Fototoons, I plan on making a similar intervention (less
>>> complex) after coordinating with Gonzalo. (There are a number of cool
>>> Fototoon enhancements queued up from GCI.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply !!
>> It helps clarifiy the current situations.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> regards.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/~walter/labyrinth/walters-gtk2-touch
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
>>> Sugar Labs
>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ajay Garg
>> Dextrose Developer
>> Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ajay Garg
> Dextrose Developer
> Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com



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Walter Bender
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