JavaFX, Java3D, JOGL

2008-01-27 Thread Wallace Jackson
To answer a question posed this weekend about JavaFX, once J2ME and J2SE are supported on OpenMoko, JavaFX would be fine as well as Java3D optimally. JOGL (Java OpenGL) would not be useful until NEO has a processor (Xscale) that has GPU/i3D functionality on-board... Walls

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-26 Thread Graeme Gregory
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:00:46 +0800 Wolfgang Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bzzt, thanks for playing. There is a "Java 1.4 (SE) Technology > > Preview for ARM" that you can download; this has been available > > for about 6 months. Unfortunately it doesn't play nice with the > > particula

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
va stuff you would like to see integrated into OpenMoko? Wolfgang On Jan 27, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Ian Darwin wrote: Audrius Meskauskas wrote: Wallace Jackson wrote: Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this me

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-26 Thread Ian Darwin
Audrius Meskauskas wrote: Wallace Jackson wrote: Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application? This seems not very likely: JavaFX is something highly adv

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
Has JavaFX been released? Can you point me to JavaFX sources you would like to see running on the Neo (URLs please, Sun's websites are a real maze, almost rivaling our wiki :-))? afaik there will be JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script. Rest assured that we will work hard to get all this

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-26 Thread Audrius Meskauskas
Wallace Jackson wrote: Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application? This seems not very likely: JavaFX is something highly advanced and build on the t

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX - Additional hardware through custom mods

2008-01-24 Thread Hendrik Strydom
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 08:27 -0700, Jeremiah Flerchinger wrote: > I agree that additional hardware should not be added to the default > phone. If people want additional hardware they should get a custom > case with extra room to support hobby projects and build/test these > expansion modules themse

Re: JavaFX

2008-01-24 Thread Ian Darwin
> See > http://qtopia.net/modules/devices/openmoko.php Only by dual-booting or by using some virtualization layer, since QTopia uses a totally different way of accessing the frame buffer (does not use X11). You cannot have QTopia and OpenMoko apps running at the same time on the same screen, p

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX - Additional hardware through custom mods

2008-01-24 Thread Jeremiah Flerchinger
tually have works. adding more will add cost and a lot more time to market. so basically- no. :) JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application? no idea at

Re: JavaFX

2008-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Spraul
QTopia). But it will probably NOT be easily miscible with the OpenMoko software. It's a complete phone stack, like OpenMoko, like Android, like QTopia. You can run QTopia on OpenMoko today. See http://qtopia.net/modules/devices/openmoko.php Once JavaFX, Android are available, we will wo

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread The Rasterman
I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's not going to happen. we are at gta02a5 (5th version) and are making zero changes - we want to make this work and release. we are only in the business of making sure what we actually have works. adding more will add cost and a lot more time to market. so basi

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Michelitsch
Alejandro Enrique wrote on 01/23/2008 08:29 PM: > What about just stick something like this to the case? > > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4732 > > Cheap and easy :) > > -- > Alejandro Enrique > > > __

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Alejandro Enrique
What about just stick something like this to the case? http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4732 Cheap and easy :) On 23/01/2008, Georg Michelitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Schmidt András wrote on 01/23/2008 06:40 PM: > > At least this solution consumes zero energy :-) > > > > ___

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread joerg
Am Mi 23. Januar 2008 schrieb Wallace Jackson: > A digital compass would be a nice feature for VIA > (OpenMoko) to have in the phone as a hardware default. > Is it inexpensive enough in quantity to include in the > shipping release!? http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Michelitsch
Schmidt András wrote on 01/23/2008 06:40 PM: > At least this solution consumes zero energy :-) > > ___ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > Zero energy on the side of FIC

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Schmidt András
At least this solution consumes zero energy :-) Georg Michelitsch wrote: I my opinion, including another piece of hardware on the Neo (and in detail a device which needs to be isolated from any magnetic influences by other components) would cause big changes in the hardware layout, so for the Ne

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Georg Michelitsch
Wallace Jackson wrote on 01/23/2008 05:45 PM: > A digital compass would be a nice feature for VIA > (OpenMoko) to have in the phone as a hardware default. > Is it inexpensive enough in quantity to include in the > shipping release!? Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's > JavaFX ann

Re: JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Darwin
Wallace Jackson wrote: ... Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)... Does this mean that JavaFX is ready to rock for NEO application? No. Sun were nice enough to credit OpenMoko for making a superior Linux phone (see

Re: Digital Compass & JavaFX

2008-01-23 Thread Wallace Jackson
A digital compass would be a nice feature for VIA (OpenMoko) to have in the phone as a hardware default. Is it inexpensive enough in quantity to include in the shipping release!? Also, I saw a NEO1973 on Sun's JavaFX announcement release on-line, behind the presenter (bigger than life!)...

RE: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-14 Thread Dean Collins
na > Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 1:01 AM > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: Sun JavaFx > > Marco Miani wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've just read this > > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jim Thompson writes: >aren't related (much) to openmoko, so I suggest we take these off-line, >unless 'the list' decides they would rather watch/join the discussion >here. (And yes, I agree that I contributed to the discussion going >off-track.) I for one have been interested (decades ago I w

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Thompson
not plan. If OpenMoko is found to be a better environment than (or for) the iPhone (as well as other phones)... "success!". If Sun's "JavaFX Mobile", well... "success"! Jim Shawn Rutledge wrote: On 5/10/07, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-11 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 5/10/07, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded wrote: > Shawn, > > I have been very involved in this area at Sun now for a couple of > years. Let me add come comments: > > Hardware accelerated Java is actually fairly common already, at > lea

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
esktop and server will distance themselves from co-operating sequential processes before too much longer. As for the comparison of JavaFX Mobile with the iPhone: Sure, at first it looks like a "me too" play, but I think this applies to the whole mobile industry. The iPhone was a majo

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
celeration to niche status. Many companies have invested in Java H/W acceleration and fell into that trap. As for the comparison of JavaFX Mobile with the iPhone: Sure, at first it looks like a "me too" play, but I think this applies to the whole mobile industry. The iPhone was a major

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Shawn Rutledge
I'm very disappointed that Sun has put off hardware-accelerated Java devices and Java operating systems for so long (they could have done this at least 5 years ago, if not more). The much-vaunted Java Chips never materialized in significant quantities of devices. The Java Station had such disapp

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Sander van Grieken
>>>> Does this mean there will be non-open sourced parts in the stack >>>> necessary >>>> to use JavaFX Script? >>> Sun has already said that JavaFX Mobile (the stuff you need for the >>> phone) will be GPLed. >>> >>> So..

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
u feel about someone taking the JavaFX Mobile stack we just talked about and created an independent device, just took the code, paid Sun nothing, just created a $50 device or a $30 device?" RG: "To reach everyone?" JS: "Everyone" RG: "Perfect! Its just perfect.&

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
Sander van Grieken wrote: Sander van Grieken wrote: I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX scripting). That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is definitely very high on the list of devices I want to see this running on. If I under

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Sander van Grieken
> Sander van Grieken wrote: >>>> I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX >>>> scripting). >>> That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is >>> definitely very high on the list of devices I want

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Sander van Grieken
> Sander van Grieken wrote: >>>> I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX >>>> scripting). >>> That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is >>> definitely very high on the list of devices I want

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:04:22 Jim Thompson wrote: > > Does this mean there will be non-open sourced parts in the stack > > necessary to use JavaFX Script? > > Sun has already said that JavaFX Mobile (the stuff you need for the > phone) will be GPLed. Humm, thats kinda c

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Thompson
Sander van Grieken wrote: I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX scripting). That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is definitely very high on the list of devices I want to see this running on. If I understand correctly, JavaFX S

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-10 Thread Sander van Grieken
>> I think (hope?) it is the new appearance of Savaje platform (+ JavaFX >> scripting). > > That's correct. This is going to be very cool stuff. And the Neo is > definitely very high on the list of devices I want to see this running > on. If I understand correctly,

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-09 Thread Terrence Barr - Evangelist, Java Mobile & Embedded
Stefano Sanna wrote: Marco Miani wrote: > Hi > > I've just read this > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 > > about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will be presented > soon WTF it's a Neo >

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-09 Thread Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
2007/5/8, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 08/05/07, Marco Miani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I've just read this > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 > > about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-08 Thread Stefano Sanna
Marco Miani wrote: > Hi > > I've just read this > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 > > about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will be presented > soon WTF it's a Neo > > somebody knows someth

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-08 Thread Paul Jimenez
; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 >> >> about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will be presented soon >> WTF it's a Neo > > >Now that's funny... But as the text says: > >"even as he released a ph

Re: Sun JavaFx

2007-05-08 Thread Vincent
On 08/05/07, Marco Miani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I've just read this http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will be presented soon WTF it's a Neo Now that's funny... But

Sun JavaFx

2007-05-08 Thread Marco Miani
Hi I've just read this http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16310 about sun JavaFx and a mockup of a phone that will be presented soon WTF it's a Neo somebody knows something more ? bye Marco __