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Wow! Can it run acme? I'm wondering because "treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse" If so, how is the right and middle click used? Anyway utterly cool

Wow! Can it run acme? I'm wondering because "treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse" If so, how is the right and middle click used? Anyway utterly cool stuff!

4ad 15y ago
I don't know how well it can run acme, but the acme in plan9port works with touch gestures quite well. Maybe the same gestures could be implemented in Inferno as well.
jff 15y ago
Hi, I worked on this project, so let me jump in on this. It can run acme, but at this time we don't have a way to do right and middle clicks. I didn't make it a priority, because the accuracy you can get in selecting text on these capacitive screens is just not very good--I don't think Acme would be a very pleasant experience. It worked fine on my old iPaq, but that had a resistive screen and a stylus.
- autotelicum 15y ago
  Indeed. I was just thinking I could try it on the device my neighbor has: A very cheap android 2.2 tablet with a resistive screen and pen, no multitouch. Never mind, it can hardly run android apps. The [Octopus project](http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html) has an interesting take on gestures. When right-clicking, it pops up a circular menu where the direction one goes in determines the action. See http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 That might be something for touch tablets. I daily use AcmeSAC on Mac & Win7 with a trackpad (and MagicPrefs for three finger middle click) and with a Wacom tablet and pen. Very nice for editing without RSI problems.
  - jff 15y ago
    Well, if you can get accurate-enough touch events, you could always go into emu/Android/screen.c and hack around with the pointer event handling code, make it check the state of some of the physical buttons--thus, if you're holding (say) the Home button when you click, it does a left click. Since you have a pen, you should be able to hit the regular window control widgets to minimize/close, rather than relying on our physical button shortcuts.

Wow! Can it run acme? I'm wondering because "treats the touchscreen like a one-button mouse" If so, how is the right and middle click used? Anyway utterly cool stuff!

4ad 15y ago

I don't know how well it can run acme, but the acme in plan9port works with touch gestures quite well. Maybe the same gestures could be implemented in Inferno as well.

jff 15y ago

Hi, I worked on this project, so let me jump in on this. It can run acme, but at this time we don't have a way to do right and middle clicks. I didn't make it a priority, because the accuracy you can get in selecting text on these capacitive screens is just not very good--I don't think Acme would be a very pleasant experience. It worked fine on my old iPaq, but that had a resistive screen and a stylus.

autotelicum 15y ago
Indeed. I was just thinking I could try it on the device my neighbor has: A very cheap android 2.2 tablet with a resistive screen and pen, no multitouch. Never mind, it can hardly run android apps. The [Octopus project](http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html) has an interesting take on gestures. When right-clicking, it pops up a circular menu where the direction one goes in determines the action. See http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 That might be something for touch tablets. I daily use AcmeSAC on Mac & Win7 with a trackpad (and MagicPrefs for three finger middle click) and with a Wacom tablet and pen. Very nice for editing without RSI problems.
- jff 15y ago
  Well, if you can get accurate-enough touch events, you could always go into emu/Android/screen.c and hack around with the pointer event handling code, make it check the state of some of the physical buttons--thus, if you're holding (say) the Home button when you click, it does a left click. Since you have a pen, you should be able to hit the regular window control widgets to minimize/close, rather than relying on our physical button shortcuts.