Quoting Mark and Janice Juszczec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Micah > > you wrote: > > > > > > > Can I tell the Helio gang on www.pdabuzz.com to check out your > work? > > > I think there are some folks who'd be very interested. > > > >That would be great. We can always use more help. > > > > I posted it to the Linux Helio discussion group. I'm not sure many > > people read it. I'll give it a day or so and post it to another Helio > list > on pdabuzz.
ok. Maybe some of that dormant Helio community can be revived :) > > > > >We need applications, especially a PIM. > > I'd certainly be interested in writing a PIM. Especially if I could > > write it in java and get more practice prior to the test. Is a java > based > PIM a possibility for PicoLinux/PicoGUI? Waba (Sean Barnes beat me to it :) is an option. SMARTDATA has been porting Waba to PicoGUI. Not sure how much progress they've made yet... I'm pretty sure it still isn't possible to access PicoGUI widgets directly, so it isn't suitable for a PIM. They were starting with a compatibility library so that 'normal' Waba programs will run on PicoGUI. Another library to allow programs written in Waba to use normal PicoGUI APIs is planned, but I don't think it's been started. Info at: http://waba.sf.net Also, Shane Nay ported GNU libgcj to PicoGUI. You can now run Java apps with a subset of the AWT on PicoGUI. I don't think it's been tested on MIPS yet. Info: http://www.minirl.com/pgui-libgcj.html > > >If you want to help debug Helio-specific > >issues like the serial port problems, > > One of the projects I'm pursuing at work involves using the Helio > high > speed serial port. So I'd like to take a look at it. The way I > understand > it there are 2 serial ports on the Helio. One is in the center of the > > bottom edge, the docs refer to it as the high speed serial port. The > other > is to the left (or right depending on your point of view) and allows > syncronization. Which one is giving the problem? AFAIK nobody has even started support for the high-speed serial port. Are there any peripherals for it? This is all in reference to the RS232 port that connects to the docking cradle. > > >I can give you access to the Pico/Linux CVS server. > > Ok. Where do I need to look to get started on the serial port > problem. > > >Of course there are many bugs and feature requests for PicoGUI > >itself that you could work on. > > > >It really depends on how deep you want to wade in the PicoGUI source > >code. If you'd rather handle packaging issues than working on the > PicoGUI > >code, you could > >help maintain Pico/Linux. If you want to learn the PicoGUI API, you can > > >write > >applications. If you want to wade through the depths of pgserver, you > can > >help > >fix problems with it and add new APIs and features. > > > > How about for now I work on the serial port problem and then start > on a > PIM? If I can do the PIM in Java, it will help prepare me for the test > in > December. If Java is not an option, then I can start on the PIM after I > > take the test. Sorry about that, but my job is dictating that I get > Java > certified so I have to spend the time to prepare. Unless you would like to contribute to the Waba or libgcj projects, Java isn't a viable option for writing a PIM yet. C is still PicoGUI's 'native language'. Perl support lags behind C but works. Java is in progress, but still can't do anything very useful. Other bindings like Python may be in the works. > > Mark > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
