[oats-sig] Re: open gazer

svn access is http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/

Thanks Steve

I'll check that out and see if I can get it running today.

Stephen

On 10/4/07, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:
> svn access is http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/
>
> e.g
> svn checkout http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/trunk jambu
>
> It's public readonly so I can add you when/if you want to commit.
> Jambu is undergoing fairly high churn at the moment so you may want
> work with me on merging later. Or we could create you a branch.
>
> bringing in Simons comments on how it might work. I was imagining a
> small JAMBU widget. This has 'target' cells too look at generates the
> events to control applications. The current Firefox set is a
> reasonable starting point. Threshold detection doesn't need
> interaction with Jambu visuals and ties in with controlling apps
> directly from devices with gestures, ,a long term goal of jambu's
> capability pallette concept.
>
> For this the work new code would perhaps get the display locations of
> the cells (View.py), do it's gaze hit/dwell detections and input
> switch events to jambu.
>
> Transparency could be used to make it less obstructive if the user has
> compiz or other window manager that supports alpha. A little tweaking
> is need to ge tthis fully working.
>
> Steve
>
> On 03/10/2007, stephen emslie <stephenemslie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/3/07, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:
> > > It would be great to have it integrated in Jambu (thanks Stephen).
> > > That could be done by having it add events to the switch event queue
> > > as got by Switch.getEvent()
> > > http://www.oatsoft.org/trac/jambu/browser/trunk/src/Switch.py
> >
> > I was rather hoping you would say that :)
> >
> > I think that directly integrating with Jambu is an excellent place to
> > start. A generalized virtual device approach can always come later
> > when we can prove that the concept works.
> >
> > The question of detecting switch activations is an important one. Mick
> > Donegan's original suggestion was something like a threshold glance -
> > looking far enough in one direction fires the switch.
> >
> > I think the quickest route to a basic proof-of-concept would be
> > something like this basic threshold technique, though I am sure there
> > are better options - ideally something like Simon's gestures idea.
> > Perhaps Mick would like to join in on this discussion?
> >
> > Thanks Steve for suggesting Jambu here. From my perspective the main
> > goal now is to set up an environment for experimenting with different
> > activation options and Jambu sounds like a good options for this. Is
> > there an subversion repository I could check out to get started?
> >
> > Sorry for the absence of any opengazer build-instructions. I'll write
> > them up today.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> >
>
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