[maemo-developers] how to port a software based on QT to N800?

[From: Kate Alhola]

ext Manoël Trapier wrote:
> I made a mistake and answer only to 黄凯耀
>
> This is what I sent:
>
> ---
>
> Make QT work on the N800 is pretty simple:
> - get the source
> - made some simple patch that you can found in the debian project, QT 4
> has some bugs in ARM handling..
> - compile 
>
> and it's done. The majors problemes come from that is that vanilla QT is
> not well integrated with the GTK environment, and I have doubt that you
> can get it to work in full integration.
>
> For exemple, the maemo virtual keyboard is not open when you touch a
> textbox, but i'm pretty sure that you can with some effort do it. but
> the major drawback will be and stay that the UI coherency will not be
> good..
>   
Not opened and your textbox is not getting any input before
you have Maemo input method support.

Other issue is to support maemo menu and statusbar.
> May be look around the QTopia project, I don't know if it could be
> helpful for porting a normal QT application, but even if it do it by
> itself it should have a virtual keyboard & things like that.
>   
I rather recommend to forget Qtopia at all. It takes over all UI
and then you can't run any Maemo apps including desktop,
connectivity etc.

Whe i did Qt port for porting Qtopia applications, i made
small "dummy qtopia" layer.

Kate
> I help this can help you. If you really need I can send a patch file for
> qt 4.2.3 that resolv most of the compilation problemes.
>
> Manoel
>
> Le vendredi 08 juin 2007 à 15:01 +0800, 黄凯耀 a écrit :
>   
>> hi,
>>  
>> I want to port a software based on QT to N800.
>> But I haven't seen that QT has been ported to maemo, so if I want
>> to port my software, I will firstly need to port Qt, is it right?
>> And is this solution feasible? how many effort will be taken to port
>> it? Suppose that I just have one month left.
>>  
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Kaya
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