Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. Ah, it does work indeed, see screenshot at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4611 Thanks! - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
bert wrote: On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. Ah, it does work indeed, see screenshot at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4611 for well-placed touches only. :-) (i'm actually a little surprised that that screenshot worked.) paul Thanks! - Bert - =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video
On 11.01.2013, at 16:32, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I must have missed the announcement. How is the raw touch data exposed? sorry! a few releases of the touchscreen firmware ago, the max number of touches quietly went from 2 to 4. full positioning is still only accurate with just 2, but the touchscreen will attempt to keep track of 4 if they're separable in at least one axis. so there's nothing special for a program to do (i.e., no raw data to fetch). i haven't experimented with the feature much, but gonzalo has the beginnings of a nice little piano playing activity floating around somewhere. Ah, it does work indeed, see screenshot at http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4611 for well-placed touches only. :-) (i'm actually a little surprised that that screenshot worked.) paul Well, try the activity, it's actually kinda fun to confuse the system ;) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
