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

[Ajay Garg]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Jerry Vonau <jerry at laptop.org.au> wrote:

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

Now a good weekend exercise, to bring this message from kernel to user
space :)


> 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)
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> Jan 24 01:14:49 xo-1e-89-0d olpc-kbdshim-udev[484]: olpc-kbdshim-udev: fd
> 8: found ebook switch
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> Jerry
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Regards,

Ajay Garg
Dextrose Developer
Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com
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