[maemo-developers] Qt4 hildonization.

[From: Antonio Aloisio]

Menus doesn't seems a problem, the code seems too easy.
But i'm a bit confused on Input method.
I don't understand what i really need..
I need to embed a Qt application in a Hildon app?



On 12/21/07, Sebastian Mancke <asteban at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> Antonio Aloisio schrieb:
> > I've found kkito, a kde developer that probably has got interesting
> > patches. But it's a old user, so it's unavailable. I'm trying to
> > contact him...
> > PS: Can i use Dbus to create Menus and to call/comunicate with
> > On-Screen keyboard?
> > (i don't know hildon well yet!)
>
> I'm working on an input method wrapper for java Swing. Since I'm using
> Swing with a gtk peer, it is somewhat simpler than your qt effort. Maybe
> you should take a look at [1] to get an idea of how it works normally/in
> my case.
>
> Text Input:
> For text input in hildon, a window has to communicate with the virtual
> keyboard using special X Messages. This protocol is not documented (or I
> can't find it). The best documentation I found is [2] (with some source
> code links [3]). Nokia has released the HildonInput Framework to go to
> the gnome upstream [4]. Since that step, the source code of the gtk-side
> X protocol implementation is available. The most interesting part for
> you should be in [5].
>
> It would help a lot, if an ongoing implementation would start with a
> refactoring of the code in [5], to separate the protocol handling from
> the gtk logic and get one piece of code which could be used by all
> implementations.
>
> Menus:
> The hildon Menu implementation seems to be a simple pop up menu, which
> is displayed on the upper left corner. I think you have to reimplement
> this in qt in a similar way.
>
> --Sebastian
>
> [1]
> https://evolvis.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/maemo/hildon_swing_input/?root=jalimo
> [2] http://maemo.org/community/wiki/inputmethod/
> [3] https://garage.maemo.org/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=5
> [4] http://live.gnome.org/Hildon/HildonInputMethod
> [5]
> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method-framework/src/hildon-im-context.c
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