Re: [Enigma-devel] Maemo Port for Nokia Internet Tablets

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> Regarding the touchscreen use: Wouldn't it make sense to allow touching of 
> the
> collected items on screen? This isn't useful with the mouse as a visible
> mouse cursor is impossible.

> From a users perspective it would be nice option, but not necessary. From a 
personal preference, i'm fine with button input, and from developer 
perspective i'd rather not deal with that :)  I would imagine for tilt users 
it would be more fun to be able to completely play without a stylus although 
possibly you are encountering disruption in ballance by doing that ? :)  Tap 
into the photocell so you can just wave your hand over device to cycle :) 
To be serious, though... do you need any type of toggle button to 
temporarily disable tilt input?  I suppose escape can be used to pause game 
but are there times you would want to study the level without tilt input?

I would have minimal time for development although it would be nice to get 
an 800x480 resolution working with inset 640x480 gameplay.  I will try to 
revisit and see if i can find a good solution with minimal code changes. 
Perhaps it would be simpler to run 640x480 for all areas except gameplay 
where if its maemo we will change into 800x480.    Either way, I will 
experiment with this, and if i come up with anything I will pass along.

Also, barely worth mentioning, I'm thinking the buttons might be more 
intuitive to change left/right dpad to cycle inventory with up/down to 
adjust ball speed.  This breaks with enigma keycode conventions, but with 
minimal code impact if using macros.

Dave-

> But the touchscreen doesn't need a visual representation (i indeed disable 
> the
> mouse graphics in the maemo port) and the touchscreen would just work fine 
> in
> the lower area of the screen. Any objectives? I would then even remove
> all "rotate item" calls as they aren't needed?
>
> Or is there some kind of level that makes funny use of the fact that you 
> have
> to sort/rotate the items before use? And the possibility to directly touch
> the items would spoil the fun? Some new functionality would be required 
> for
> this as currently an item cannot be picked from other than the first
> position.
>
> Is there any reason not to do such a change? I think it would make this 
> part
> more intuitive than it's now.
>
> Till