SWT on Maemo updates
Just before FOSDEM I have a nice batch of screenshots to show. What I am going to present today is a new Jalimo demo application which is available in binary form from the Maemo Jalimo repository (sourcecode is in SVN).
It makes use of SWT 3.4's ability to switch to fullscreen mode (and back). Since a convention for Maemo apps says that toggling fullscreen should be possible by pressing a certain hardware button, I added the neccessary listener as well. It works nicely. :-)
Last but not least while reading through through the Hildon documentation I learned that the environment provides its own file chooser dialog. Since I was fixing a bug in our SWT anyways I added support for this dialog as well.
The results can be seen here:
In related news:
Jalimo is actively contributing and committing stuff to OpenEmbedded now. One of the nice results is that other people start adding the packages into their distributions. Eg. OpenMoko now has GNU Classpath, Cacao, JamVM and SWT in their repositories. The same is going to happen for GPE and AFAIK Angstrom. Nice one!
For the Maemo packages which we provide on our own we lately switched from the manually and Scratchbox-built packages to the ones made by our OpenEmbedded-base autobuilder. For those who used the old repository for their N800/N810 device already I wrote a small migration guide.
And on a completely different topic:
Richard is in Berlin today and does a talk about the philosophy and history of free software. With a little luck a friend and I can organise an interview with him. I spent half the night on getting some interesting background information. :-)
