RE: Computerworld article

2007-09-29 Thread David Hazel
e accurate predictions. Who really knows which piece of kit will really gain grass-roots support? Everyone hopes they've got the winning formula, but nobody knows for certain. David Hazel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Maro Sent: 29 Se

RE: Upcoming new maemo documentation and an introduction

2007-09-26 Thread David Hazel
ns. Finally, I hope the sections on the architecture, system services and other system software will include information on the APIs and the C header files needed. I spent a lot of time simply working out what calls I needed and where they were declared. David Hazel > -Original Messa

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
m would be a web page that lists links to existing documentation in some kind of logical order (e.g. where you get to read the pre-requisite information before you're halfway through a complicated example which assumes you already know it). David Hazel _

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
w .desktop and .service files are to be used might make more sense once I've done that. David Hazel PS I like Make files, too. I'd write my own for this, except that the ones in the examples have been auto-generated and, as you say, are impossible to follow. Without proper explanations of

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
talling (as I said in my original email). It still didn't put the application on the menu, though. > it seems that someone realized that creating an installation package > wasn't that straightforward for someone who doesn't know about debian > packages. It probably i

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
is crap (sorry, incomplete in some key areas). David Hazel -Original Message- From: Thomas Waelti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2007 19:02 To: Gregory 'guardian' Pakosz; David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Making my app. appear on the Naviga

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
> i suggest you convert the energy you put in writing those long emails > into reading carefully So you'd prefer me not to explain my problem as clearly and fully as possible? That'll help a lot, won't it? > if you are unsure about the directory structure and you have no real > reason to change i

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
Hi Eero, Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give it a try and see what it tells me. David Hazel -Original Message- From: Eero Tamminen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2007 17:00 To: ext David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Making my app. appear o

Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
mailing list, I'm inclined to suggest to them that we were right, and that we should stick to more mature technology in future. The N800 is an interesting piece of kit, but without MUCH better documentation and properly integrated development tools, it is too expensive to write for and more

Creating a Debian package - clarifications required

2007-09-21 Thread David Hazel
be called abc_icon_26x26.png? This is kind of suggested in the documentation, but it isn't stated explicitly. 5. Will dh_make automatically uuencode the icon and place it in the control file, or do I have to manually run uuencode and copy the text in? Sorry for so many questions in one go, bu

RE: Missing Hildon include files?

2007-09-20 Thread David Hazel
is not intended for general use? There should at least be a note somewhere saying that it is for internal use. David Hazel -Original Message- From: Santtu Lakkala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2007 13:01 To: David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Missing

Second time of asking: hildon-desktop include file missing

2007-09-20 Thread David Hazel
escribes any special actions I need to take to allow me to use these APIs. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

RE: Another libosso bug?

2007-09-19 Thread David Hazel
does something to my application's window, which means my application has to be in front to deal with it. Any suggestions as to what might be going wrong? David Hazel -Original Message- From: Kimmo Hämäläinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 September 2007 12:39 To: ext David Hazel

Missing Hildon include files?

2007-09-17 Thread David Hazel
I need to use the is_service_running function within my application, and the include file for it isn't there. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Another libosso bug?

2007-09-17 Thread David Hazel
owser does not come to the front of the display. The question is, am I using the above call correctly (in particular, is the application name correct for the browser)? Are there any restrictions on the circumstances where I can expect this call to bring another application in front of mine? D

Possible libosso bug?

2007-09-10 Thread David Hazel
uest has to be dealt with by the browser itself). Instead, what actually happens is that the browser opens and stays open (on its default home page). Is this a known "feature" of libosso or the Browser? If not, should I report it as a bug? David Hazel __

Trapping application "crashes"?

2007-09-04 Thread david . hazel
cause the OS to terminate the application). David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Software on MMC cards & OSSO question

2007-09-02 Thread David Hazel
to continue past the invocation of the browser until the latter is closed by the user. Failing that, I need to be able to embed a browser in my application. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread david . hazel
-protected" position, the card itself would disable or ignore write operations (by, for example, disabling whatever line/signal is used to perform the write operation). David Hazel   On 8/29/07, David Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - whether write protected (yes, you can write-protect an

RE: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
ormation about the cards. Here are some ideas for the kind of information such an API might want to be able to retrieve: - serial number - capacity - whether FAT16 or FAT32 formatted - mountpoint - device file name - whether write protected (yes, you can

RE: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
;. For me, this is particularly important, as my application will be > sold commercially and needs to work under all circumstances. > > > David Hazel > > > > After our thread some weeks ago regarding reading the serial number from a > MMC card, I've since im

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
age can be repaired using the Disk Manager on Windows XP or 2000. If you use this to reformat such a device, it will come back to life quite successfully (but be prepared for a bit of a wait while the Disk Manager decides that the device is not properly formatted and that it can't therefore sho

RE: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread david . hazel
definitive statement from someone to the effect that "if you do X, this will guarantee to find the memory cards and nothing else". For me, this is particularly important, as my application will be sold commercially and needs to work under all circumstances. David Hazel     After our t

RE: Support to non-Linux developers (was Re: GeneralMaemo/Scratchbox/N800 help)

2007-08-28 Thread david . hazel
pening in my availability after 7th September. Maybe Nokia would be prepared to fund someone to write some suitable documentation? After all, it would be in their interests for the wider developer community to be up to speed on this technology (otherwise it will die a death through lack of su

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
the file to the home directory and chmod +x it. How do I do chmod (and, in fact, what constitutes the home directory on this beast)? I haven't found anything resembling a command line on my N800, and the File Manager doesn't seem to provide that level of control over file attributes and loca

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
ly from a command line? (I'm fine with Unix/Linux shell commands; it's all the other faffing about that's defeating me at the moment.) David Hazel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Green Sent: 26 August 2007 10:52 To: maemo

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
most" because the emulator doesn't appear to be all that close an emulation of the target environment. It apparently can't simulate the presence of memory cards or give me an internet connection, both of which are central to what my application is trying to do.) David Hazel ---

General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-25 Thread David Hazel
ience, on many operating system platforms, so I certainly don't lack the skills to do what I'm trying to achieve. Unfortunately, not much of my experience has been on Unix or Linux, and I'm finding these to be pretty impenetrable to someone who doesn't have a-priori

Browsing and opening URLs from within a C application

2007-08-23 Thread David Hazel
d a browser within an application (by which I mean add a widget to my application window that can load and render HTML documents)? In hopeful anticipation, David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

RE: Obtaining flash memory serial numbers on Nokia N800

2007-08-12 Thread David Hazel
ntation - as opposed to just header comments - for the Hildon APIs? I haven't found any yet. Even the GTK+ and GLib stuff is little more than header comments with a few extra bits of description tacked on. There's very little proper top-down documentation that I've been able to

Re: Obtaining flash memory serial numbers on Nokia N800

2007-08-10 Thread David Hazel
a Windows Mobile device. Thanks for the pointer to the Samsung website. I'll see what I can find from there. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Obtaining flash memory serial numbers on Nokia N800

2007-08-10 Thread David Hazel
with (whether it be the built-in memory, or an SD card in either of the memory slots that are available) - Obtain the serial number of that memory device, if it has one (or determine that it hasn't got a serial number, if this is the case). Can anyone suggest how I can do this? D

Post-installation problem with starting Maemo system

2007-07-28 Thread David Hazel
ything, but now the system has no idea what I'm asking it to do? Is there something I'm supposed to do to ensure that the system retains a knowledge of this command? If so, what? Incidentally, I did a search, using find, to locate any files called af-sh-init.sh,

Errors while installing Maemo3.1 on Debian Linux

2007-07-26 Thread David Hazel
my Debian Linux system. However, I was able to download the script from my Windows XP system. I'm fairly new to Linux development, although I do have lots of experience (about 24 years!) of software development on many operating systems. Regards, David Hazel