Touchscreen keyboard
I’ve added a touchscreen keyboard to DSLinux today.
The keyboard uses tiles to display the graphics, so it should be possible to rearrange the tiles into a dvorak layout.
The shift, alt and ctrl keys aren’t usable yet and the graphics don’t change when keys are pressed.
The keyboard also seems to stop responding randomly.
But it’s a start, and does allow you to run programs other than ‘ls’.
Binaries are available from the overnight build page: http://kineox.free.fr/DS
June 20th, 2005 at 1:03 am
Oh my god! This is incredible! It seems like so much is happening so quick … how far off do you think a GUI is?
June 20th, 2005 at 1:22 am
Just a suggestion, but would it be possible to make like a taskbar on the bottom part of the screen just above the keyboard, so you had icons for different progs on the touchscreen and had more room for the actual program on the top screen?
June 20th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
congrats keep it up!
June 20th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
sweeeet! maybe youshould add a mousepad thing like laptops have
June 20th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
Hey, Brilliant progress, you rule
w00t!
June 20th, 2005 at 11:09 pm
Damn, all that is very impressive, when you have finished the keyboard, and if you plan to add language support (like azerty keyboard) contact me, I’ll help you as much as I can…
June 21st, 2005 at 3:05 am
thats progressing nicely i love you pepsiman
June 21st, 2005 at 6:30 am
All I can say is - wow!
Congrats, and keep up the great work!
June 21st, 2005 at 7:08 am
How does one get this distro on their DS???
June 21st, 2005 at 9:49 am
Installation instructions are here: http://www.dslinux.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=430
June 21st, 2005 at 10:14 am
Heh, nice work man. I can see posts from you(r handle) all over the ‘net answering questions as well (DSLinux, Hackaday, Slashdot…); you must have “uber micro” to type all that…
June 21st, 2005 at 2:27 pm
Something like this might actually make me interested in buying one of these.
June 21st, 2005 at 6:44 pm
That’s pretty slick. I’m Switching from Coke today.
June 21st, 2005 at 7:18 pm
Looks cool!
But considerating DS screen size, I would not have used the same keyboard layout as PCs…
I can hardly imagine using my two (large) hands to type on a so small screen, so… why not use all DS features and have, say :
-the action buttons as the arrow keys (maybe with some d-pad button, I do not know if they are already used for mouse control)
-the D-Pad as a context switcher
-the touch screen as the main input
The main input may have a static part containing common buttons (ctrl, shift, esc, space, enter…) and a per-context part :
no d-pad key : letters in lower case
d-pad up (same as shift) : letters is upper case
d-pad left : numbers + special chars + FXX keys
d-pad right : …
This is just an example… but this will allow bigger keys to be displayed on screen.
And sorry for my english…
June 21st, 2005 at 7:26 pm
amazing……but a quick question…..with 4M ram, do you guys think we will have a practically useful system with this thing?
June 22nd, 2005 at 1:04 am
[…] , there’s the 2.6 Linux kernel running on it, and now someone has made a touchscreen keyboard. All it needs now is access to the builtin wireless and a Konquerer port as far as I’ […]
June 22nd, 2005 at 9:19 am
Hey just_curious; I can run Grey Cat Linux (with GUI X Windows) on my 4mb RAM/50MHz 486 DX. So I definately think this is possible. And the DS is garunteed hardware, meaning lots of optimisation can be done. Also, we have awesome devs like Pepsiman working on it.
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:16 pm
thanks, Will. and of coz, thanks to Pepsiman for the excellent work. Keep it up. Just curious… how far are we away from a GUI X?
June 24th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Rock on!!! Gotta get a flash cart now… Any chance of text recognition like a palm blackberry? Don’t guess there’s already something written somewhere that could be implemented?
June 28th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
Hey! That’s sweet! I may buy one of those just to run Linux! Ive been looking at various other proyects of people running Linux on different consoles, but this one looks definitely like is going to be The One!
The keyboard is just great, I think Im going to fall in love if I see it running.
Just one thing: the whole website is a bit messy
Ive been reading it all and I still cant say that I know how to repdoduce what you guys did with your DS. It could be cool if you find some time to make a easy to understand guide to this. Im not a complete newbie, I´ve run linux for years, but all this hardware, memories, cards and the DS is totally new to me.
anyways, the keyboard in tghe touch screen is just g-r-e-a-t I take my hat off! (and no, it is not red
)
James
June 28th, 2005 at 1:46 pm
I’ve started an FAQ page, hope this helps.
August 8th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
have you ever thought of puting a button to switch between a mouse and keeboard, it could be a touch pad type mouse like you commenley see on PDA’s and laptops
August 8th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
DSLinux does not have any applications that make use of a mouse.
If it ever gains such applications, a mouse driver will be written.
August 9th, 2005 at 1:16 am
Hey couldnt you just use the fricken stylus for a mouse? Wait hmmm everyone is problably thought about that but just in case a DS challenged person asks a question like that….it has a stylus
August 9th, 2005 at 10:06 am
Yes, the stylus would be used for mouse input, it still needs a driver.
November 1st, 2005 at 5:28 am
i think you should have it so it rotates around when you using the main window its on 2nd screen so you can movie it or internet act with it and when you need to type any thing you get it so the L key would change the windows
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