[maemo-developers] announcing libconnui-dev-0.1 and operator-name-cbs-widget-0.1

[From: Jonathan Wilson]

I have just released libconnui-dev-0.1 and operator-name-cbs-widget-0.1
they can be found at http://www.cncmods.net/files/libconnui-dev-0.1.zip and 
http://www.cncmods.net/files/operator-name-cbs-widget-0.1.zip

libconnui-dev-0.1 is a set of reverse-engineered declarations for the 
closed-source libconnui and libconnui_cell libraries (which are used for 
various things by connectivity status bar widgets, control panels and other 
things). I tried to reverse engineer as many of the "interesting-looking" 
functions as possible.
Obviously not all of them are tested yet (I dont particularly want to test 
connui_cell_emergency_call for example although 
connui_cell_emergency_get_numbers works :) but I tested a few of the ones 
that were easy to test. Some of them are also being used by 
operator-name-cbs-widget-0.1.

To install libconnui-dev-0.1 you need to copy libconnui.so.0.0.0 and 
libconnui_cell.so.0.0.0 from your phone into the /usr/lib of your 
scratchbox target.
Then you need to unzip libconnui.zip into the scratchbox target location 
(so that the files end up in /usr/include/* and /usr/lib/*)
Then you go to /usr/lib and do these commands:
ln -s libconnui.so.0.0.0 libconnui.so.0
ln -s libconnui.so.0 libconnui.so
ln -s libconnui_cell.so.0.0.0 libconnui_cell.so.0
ln -s libconnui_cell.so.0 libconnui_cell.so

To use it, just pass libconnui-dev to pkg-config to get the right 
include/lib paths and libraries.
Then #include <libconnui.h> in your code.

operator-name-cbs-widget-0.1 is a replacement for the standard operator 
name home screen widget. It displays the operator name using an algorithim 
that is almost identical to the stock nokia algorithim (it doesn't handle 
some extra data related to roaming, I am still working on figuring out what 
the nokia code is doing). It also displays any cell broadcast SMS messages 
it recieves on channel 50 (i.e. the cell tower name, if the tower sends 
one) alongside the operator name. (although I plan to make the tower name 
display optional via an option in the currently-empty control panel). You 
will need the libconnui-dev stuff set up if you want to compile 
operator-name-cbs-widget.

If anyone has any feedback on my code (or if you have found bugs in it) 
please let me know so I can make my code better :)
If anyone starts playing with or using libconnui-dev, I would also be 
interested to know.

Oh and if anyone wants a precompiled .deb of operator-name-cbs-widget, let 
me know and I will make one available.