New rotate for OpenMoko

Magnus Boman captain.magnus at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 10:26:27 CEST 2008


Silva,

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 08:02 +0200, Thomas Bertani wrote:
> why not making that pressing aux you could lock/unlock the current
> rotation state?
> 
> 2008/9/21 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org>
>         Hi,
>         
>         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
>         
>         
>         http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.1.0.tar.gz
>         http://files.1407.org/openmoko/rotate/rotate-0.1.0.tar.gz.asc

How much CPU does this utility use?
I see that there are no delays in your while loop, hence my question.

Cheers,
Magnus






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