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Archive for June, 2009

maemomm API reference

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

We have cleaned up the maemomm API reference and put the result online. Here’s an example for the Hildon::TouchSelector widget. Pages such as that are linked often from the “Programming with maemomm” book.
Like the gtkmm API reference, the maemomm API reference is partly autogenerated from the C API reference, with some clever automatic changes, and [...]


Maemo: APIs and Porting

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This post is a general ramble about the limits of keeping API the same on significantly different platforms. It uses Maemo’s Hildon and Maemo’s Qt as examples, but don’t get offended. Hildon’s new UI in Maemo 5 is wonderfully appropriate for small touch-screen devices, and the API is the best that the developers could do [...]


maemomm for Maemo 5 and Screenshots

Friday, June 12th, 2009

David King blogged that we have draft documentation online for the Maemomm (C++) API for Maemo 5.
The text needs to be filled out a little and corrected here and there. But we have figured out how to actually use the new widgets, as shown by our example code. And the list of screenshots of the [...]


Xephyr on Ubuntu Jaunty

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Many Maemo developers have noticed that the version of Xephyr (xserver-xephyr) on Ubuntu Jaunty crashes very easily, making the SDK nearly useless. I uploaded a Xepyhr version to the Openismus PPA with the patch applied to fix the crash. Maybe one of the open launchpad bugs is relevant.
I wouldn’t generally advise you to upgrade to [...]