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Originally Posted by rincewind
I've been playing around to create a new file manager from scratch, one that utilizes the eInk readability and the stylus for input.
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Redrawing the screen is the bottleneck on the iLiad. At the same time it is possible to display much information on one page without rendering it unreadable. I can imagine a scheme with minimal redrawing and only a few
user interactions to browse a large number of files. The thing is based upon bisection search:
All content is displayed in two colums. On the left all file names starting lexically from the beginning, on the right the same from the end.
Pointing in one of the columns with the stylus or flipping the flip-bar to the left or right selects it and recursively displays it again in two column mode.
Once the desired file or subdirectory is found one can move with the up/down keys to it and select it or, alternatively, activate it with the stylus.
The logic is simple and I could easily do that in python. But I have never made any kind of GUI and have no idea how to display anything on the iLiad other than writing it to a file or printing to stdout.
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