Try to port embeddedkonsole to ekonsole

[sschaubach]

bragon,
Can you explain a bit more? Are you saying that someone needs to grab the Qt library from the A1200 and create header files? I have the time and am an old c programmer but I don't understand exactly what you're saying needs to be done. Can you explain in as much detail as you can and I will try and do the work or tell slickrock to get busy

for instance, how did the zplayer get built w/o these headers and work on the A1200

Best,

Stephen

[bragon]

sschaubach,
you are right you need to grab the phone's librairies and and in order to reconstruct from scratch the library headers files from the stripped binaries present on the phone you can play with:
arm-linux-nm -aDC libezxappbase.so
arm-linux-objdump -T --demangle libezxappbase.so
The idea would be to start from the a780 public sdk located here http://lsb.blogdns.net/ezx-devkit and modify it to adapt it to the a1200. The easiest IHMO would be to make the required changes to the z*.h files first and the most difficult part will be to figure out the Motorola modifications to the qt libraries and modify accordingly the qt headers.
I do not have time and envy to do it myself but if you have spare time and will to help the community please shoot!
If you wish we can start another thread on this topic and see who wants to contribute. I can provide some ideas on how to move forward.
Concerning zmplayer it is another story.

[sschaubach]

bragon,
Thanks for the great post. I'm going to continue on with ezx-devkit and see what happens. I'm also digging into the Qt aspect and will report back.

btw, check out this link and click on software development...wonder if any of this could help developers, it free:

http://www.gumstix.com/index.html

Best,

Stephen

[rpconnect]

bragon,
Thanks for the great post. I'm going to continue on with ezx-devkit and see what happens. I'm also digging into the Qt aspect and will report back.

have you had any luck with this? right now i'm having more luck with the gtk option for GUI development with the mkezx setup, but its not nearly as easy as being able to do simple qt-style development with an sdk for the a1200, be it reverse engineered or not.

i can get a real basic ZApp to work with one button, but as soon as i start adding any qt stuff (like QLabel) or anything interesting it segfaults.

btw, check out this link and click on software development...wonder if any of this could help developers, it free:

http://www.gumstix.com/index.html

gumstix is great! I got one just under a year ago and ported the boa web-server and php from the gumstix build to the e680i. the processor is almost identical to ours and its a GREAT way to learn about embedded linux.

[gyagyás]

But I have a problem in turning on the virutal keyboard. I click on the second icon from the left on the upper panel, but nothing happens. I am using E680 (not E680i).

It is a problem of E680 firmware?

I've got the latest ekonsole-0.2 from this topic installed on an
E680 still running it's original firmware. Installed seemingly
without a glitch using mpkg. But I'm also experiencing this
problem: It seems to work but I cannot bring up any keyboard
to type into the terminal window and thus the app is practically
unusable!

It would be soooo nice to have it working, please fix this bug!!!