RE: Computerworld article

2007-09-29 Thread David Hazel
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 September 2007 08

Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
better documentation and properly integrated development tools, it is too expensive to write for and more trouble than it's worth. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo

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

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 it,

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
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 Navigator menu I can really feel with David, as I encountered exactly

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
), and if it took the trouble to explain how things are supposed to work before launching into specific examples, we might all be able to do it without having to ask questions on this list. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
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 what is supposed

Creating a Debian package - clarifications required

2007-09-21 Thread David Hazel
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, but my first attempt to follow the instructions didn't really clarify these points. David Hazel

RE: Missing Hildon include files?

2007-09-20 Thread David Hazel
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 Hildon include files

RE: Another libosso bug?

2007-09-19 Thread David Hazel
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 Cc: maemo-dev Subject: Re

Another libosso bug?

2007-09-17 Thread David Hazel
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? David Hazel

Missing Hildon include files?

2007-09-17 Thread David Hazel
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

Possible libosso bug?

2007-09-10 Thread David Hazel
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 ___ maemo-developers

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
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

2007-08-30 Thread david . hazel
ected" 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 SD

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 thread some

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
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 show its current format). David

RE: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
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 implemented detection of the MMC card's presence by the existence of those same files. I know my solution works on my device

RE: Finding the mmc cards

2007-08-29 Thread David Hazel
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 write-protect an SD card) David Hazel ___ maemo

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

2007-08-28 Thread david . hazel
on this technology (otherwise it will die a death through lack of support). If anyone from Nokia is interested in this suggestion, and wants to take it further, let me know. I'd be happy to discuss things in more detail. David Hazel ___ maemo-developers mailing list

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
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 -Original Message- From: Frank Banul [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
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-developers@maemo.org Subject: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:03:41

RE: General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-26 Thread David Hazel
+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 locations. David Hazel -Original Message

General Maemo/Scratchbox/N800 help

2007-08-25 Thread David Hazel
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 Unix knowledge. Thanks in advance for any pointers that anyone is able to give me. David Hazel

Browsing and opening URLs from within a C application

2007-08-23 Thread David Hazel
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
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 find.) Thanks for the info you've given me so far, anyway. David Hazel -Original Message- From

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? David Hazel

Re: Obtaining flash memory serial numbers on Nokia N800

2007-08-10 Thread David Hazel
. 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

Errors while installing Maemo3.1 on Debian Linux

2007-07-26 Thread David Hazel
. 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 ___ maemo-developers