[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] A set of development questions...

[From: Tomi Ollila]

Hi

While working to create revsh-tunnel-gui to ease remote access to
a Nokia 770 I've come up with some issues. I'd like to ask some
questions to get (some of) these issues solved quicker. In the
order of annoyance these are:

1  I've set  "Capitalize"  on  when typing on virtual keyboard. Is
   there a way in GtkEntry to to hint the keyboard to not to capitalize
   the first word? BTW it is interesting that also the numeric keypad
   is capitalized ;/


2  I have code like:

   GtkWidget * view = gtk_text_view_new_with_buffer(buffer);
   gtk_text_view_set_cursor_visible(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(view), TRUE);
   gtk_text_view_set_editable(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(view), FALSE);
   g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(view), "key-press-event",
                    G_CALLBACK(key_pressed), null);  


   this works fine when using standard keyboard on normal linux PC
   (i.e. key_pressed function is called on every keystroke on textwiew)
   Now, is it possible somehow to activate virtual keyboard on textview
   even it is not editable and start getting input there..?


3  Is there a compiler define that can be used in code to conditionally
   compile code when targeting for 770 (and some other code when not for 770).
   Currently I use the following kludgy hack:

   test -f /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher && XD=-DM4EM0 || XD=

   and then use  $XD  in gcc command line.

  
4  Creating code that are to be launched from "extras" menu doesn't have 
   much (easily findable?) documentation. maemopad seems just to run
   osso_initialize() and nothing more(?). If I just do that is that good
   enough (and dump the return value) (for start, sometime later (say,
   never) that could be "fixed" to do more). Currently I cheat this 
   by doing the following:

   if (fork()) { sleep(60); return; }
   close(0); close(1); close(2); setsid();
   
   (well, should dup(2) /dev/null to 0, 1, 2.. but...)

   BTW: how to check whether one needs to osso_initialize()... or is it
   good to do anyway... and does it require more than
   `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` to be given on compiler command line


Thanks for reading. Any hints on any of the above subjects are greatly
appreciated. Meanwhile I have some revcp issues to solve... revsh.c
is lost... it requires a big rewrite to make some things right... but
anyway, IMHO it is useful remote access tool to get into Nokia 770.


Tomi