2008 Setembro 21

As said before, since I’m not entirely happy with the previous version of Rotate for OpenMoko, also using it as a way to learn how to write programs for it, I’m writing a new version of Rotate for OpenMoko.

I’m now announcing the first results: release 0.1.0 is out (signature)! The tar.gz file contains both source and a binary suited to run on Om200x.y (at least 2008.9 should work).

Be careful, it bytes..

$ cat ChangeLog
2008-09-21 - 0.1.0 - First release.
	Current Features:
	* makes some rotations

	Known Issues:
	* reading from the accelerometer hangs after X time/reads
	* some heuristic values may need finetunning (specially when
	  laying around, turned up)

	Near Future:
	* don't rotate when screen is locked
	* change profile to silent/meeting when phone is turned down
	  and revert when it is turned back up

So… following up on my patch for a better xrandr rotation on Rotate, I’ve been learning how to read the accelerometers, and it’s a lot of fun, actually. I’m so thrilled… I really missed programming

Now, the good news is that in a couple of days (hopefully) I’ll be posting a completely new Rotate. I’m collecting some positioning data from the second accelerometer, and right now I already know a few positions, at least my little test program is guessing some positions quite right…

s/guess position/libxrandr rotate/ and you get the new Rotate

All this without running the risk of seeing this software banned (like the iDictatorPhone), where it seems some programmer got his application banned on the iDictatorPhone because it competed with Mail.App. Nice one, Apple, you’re only proving us, Free Software activists, right. Again.

The following is the current output as I pick it up from the table and place it from turned up into turned down.

Postion (90,90,1026):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (90,72,990):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (36,54,990):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (-36,36,990):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (18,18,972):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (18,936,0):  upsideDown
Postion (18,36,882):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (36,36,900):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (18,18,1008):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (-36,1080,0):  upsideDown
Postion (-36,-36,1080):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (72,1134,0):
Postion (54,18,1314):  horizontal
Postion (54,54,1386):  horizontal
Postion (18,144,1404):  horizontal
Postion (-36,198,1386):  horizontal
Postion (-72,234,1296):
Postion (-54,108,1152):  horizontal
Postion (-396,-72,936):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (-864,-198,1080):  horizontal left turnedUp
Postion (-504,-36,918):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (-504,54,1026):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (-414,54,1098):  horizontal turnedUp
Postion (18,-54,774):  horizontal
Postion (234,-288,378):
Postion (180,-666,18):
Postion (414,-720,216):
Postion (-36,-1080,0):  vertical
Postion (90,-774,-72):
Postion (126,-270,-216):
Postion (234,702,360):
Postion (-360,378,-2304):
Postion (864,1170,-918):  right turnedDown
Postion (126,702,-1800):
Postion (288,558,-1494):
Postion (270,288,-1314):
Postion (54,108,-1206):  horizontal
Postion (108,162,-1098):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (288,108,-882):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (342,162,-792):  horizontal
Postion (270,72,-828):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (306,36,-972):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (306,90,-1188):  horizontal
Postion (270,324,-1332):
Postion (180,396,-1278):
Postion (126,450,-1386):
Postion (-36,522,-1674):
Postion (36,270,-1404):
Postion (180,90,-1080):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (72,72,-1044):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (54,90,-1044):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (-18,72,-1080):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (18,72,-1026):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (18,36,-1080):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (18,36,-1134):  horizontal
Postion (36,36,-1098):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (54,36,-1098):  horizontal turnedDown
Postion (90,54,-1080):  horizontal turnedDown

FU-BAR

New Rotate for OpenMoko

Getting ready for Rotate rewrite

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