Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-02-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Hendrik Siedelmann wrote: [...] Yes, I too think it would be useful for a longer period. In a time of 3-5 seconds one could propably get away with simply projecting the route at signal loss with constant speed. And I think navit snaps to streets anyway, so it wouldn't matter if its off by a

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-28 Thread Yorick Moko
maybe this can be of help: http://openbossa.indt.org/carman/index.html it interfaces with the car On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Hendrik Siedelmann hendrik.siedelm...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/1/27, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no: Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote: This page does:

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-27 Thread Helge Hafting
Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote: This page does: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_Fundamentals Noise is around 3cm/s^2, i.e: It can fill in _short_ - 3-5s gaps in GPS coverage, if the orientation of the phone is known. Not enough for a 4km tunnel then, which is 3 min when going

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-27 Thread Hendrik Siedelmann
2009/1/27, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no: Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote: This page does: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_Fundamentals Noise is around 3cm/s^2, i.e: It can fill in _short_ - 3-5s gaps in GPS coverage, if the orientation of the phone is known. Not enough

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-26 Thread Helge Hafting
Hendrik Siedelmann wrote: Get higher gps accuracy using accelerometer data (or use it when driving through a tunnel) would be a nice example. That'd be interesting. Do anyone know the precision of the accelerometers? Assuming, of course, that one has a car mount so the phone has a known

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-26 Thread Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
This page does: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Accelerometer_Fundamentals Noise is around 3cm/s^2, i.e: It can fill in _short_ - 3-5s gaps in GPS coverage, if the orientation of the phone is known. Helge Hafting wrote: Hendrik Siedelmann wrote: Get higher gps accuracy using accelerometer

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-26 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 26 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Hendrik Siedelmann wrote: Get higher gps accuracy using accelerometer data (or use it when driving through a tunnel) would be a nice example. That'd be interesting. Do anyone know the precision of the accelerometers? Assuming, of course, that

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread VirtuAlex
should decide screen orientation based on focused app. In short, there's no need for daemon, cause the only software which talks directly to proposed daemon is actually window manager. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Conflict-when-several-apps-use-the-accelerometers

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread VirtuAlex
VirtuAlex wrote: the window manager should dispatch accelerator events I meant accelerometer events. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Conflict-when-several-apps-use-the-accelerometers--tp2145087p2157147.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Olivier Migeot
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:40 PM, VirtuAlex virtua...@linuxoid.net wrote: Fully exclusive access is not a solution. It just defeats the purpose of multitasking. Actually I think the window manager should dispatch accelerator events, like it dispatches the mouse events. Only focused application

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Fully exclusive access is not a solution. It just defeats the purpose of multitasking. Actually I think the window manager should dispatch accelerator events, like it dispatches the mouse events. Only focused Okay, that's basically what I meant with deamon. A piece of software that's

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Helge Hafting
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Hi, omnewrotate is quite blind to what is running. If you have an application which uses accelerometers you are much better off not running omnewrotate at the same time, regardless of solving the monopolization problem. Imagine it is solved: If

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
Hi all, I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of a starter script. This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top shelf. autototate on/off, and rotate now when auto is off. Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on what the

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:00:02AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Hi, omnewrotate is quite blind to what is running. If you have an application which uses accelerometers you are much better off not running omnewrotate at the same time, regardless of

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Yorick Moko
i'm just responding to confirm that some apps also don't work correctly with omnewrotate installed mokoeightball is one of them; after installing omnewrotate and rebooting, shaking the phone does not work with mokoeightball apps like the ledclock (http://www.opkg.org/package_104.html) displays by

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Yorick Moko
small correction; in ledclock one can override the rotation On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: i'm just responding to confirm that some apps also don't work correctly with omnewrotate installed mokoeightball is one of them; after installing omnewrotate

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Yes, ledclock works fine if you disable rotation. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Yorick Moko wrote: small correction; in ledclock one can override the rotation On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com wrote: i'm just responding to confirm that some apps

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread VirtuAlex
and therefore allow the original rotation-software to reactivate reliably. How about running two apps then, if they're both using accelerometers and each requires its own orientation? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Conflict-when-several-apps-use-the-accelerometers

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas Otterbein
How about running two apps then, if they're both using accelerometers and each requires its own orientation? Perhaps a Accelero-Deamon? Applications could register for receiving, probably even already pre-processed, events. And an application could also request exclusive access in which case

Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-12 Thread Helge Hafting
Is it possible to let several apps use the accelerometers, similiar to how several apps may share the gps unit? I noticed that omnewrotate seems to monopolize the accelerometers, so openmoocow and duke can't use them. Omnewrotate is useful to have, and there will probably be more games using the

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 12 January 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Is it possible to let several apps use the accelerometers, similiar to how several apps may share the gps unit? I noticed that omnewrotate seems to monopolize the accelerometers, so openmoocow and duke can't use them. Omnewrotate is useful to

Re: Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

2009-01-12 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:42:37AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: Is it possible to let several apps use the accelerometers, similiar to how several apps may share the gps unit? I noticed that omnewrotate seems to monopolize the accelerometers, so openmoocow and duke can't use them.