If anyone wants to get a feeling if this can work or not, there is now a
test applet in my testing repository that show a "Don't touch me"
message when you are getting close to the device.

You need to setup my test repository in SBS Settings/Plugins to see the
new "Proximity Action" applet:
http://erlandplugins.googlecode.com/svn/repository/trunk/testing.xml
(You install it through Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer)

It uses a bit of CPU at the moment, so you probably don't want to use
this together with TinySC as it will probably slow down TinySC even
more. However, I tried with with active VU meters so it's not that bad.

Note, this is just a quick test to show the concept, I need some ideas
how it would be possible to use this to something useful.

>From my testing I don't think the proximity sensor works good enough
for a completely safe "Don't touch" party mode message. It works fairly
god as long as I reach for the device from the left side but on the
right side it's possible to sneak in and touch it.

It currently checks the proximity 10 times per second, it might
possible to increase that to make it faster and it might be possible to
decrease it to get better performance.

I'd like some feedback regarding how sensitive your Touch is, does the
applet work, in what cases doesn't it work ?
What does the number below the "Don't touch me" message say for
different distances ?

One use case that I personally feel it might work for is to
automatically switch back to the large font skin if I haven't touched
the device for a while and haven't been within the proximity for a
while.


-- 
erland

Erland Isaksson
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(Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse,
Custom Scan,  Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database
Query plugins'
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