Hello, all. I’ve been on holiday in darkest Cornwall this week, but nevertheless there has been a soupcon of time for adventures in the world of the mobile technology. Just wanted to quickly share the results here, partly to show what a flexible beast the N900 really is.
First up – with the help of another enthusiatic coder – here’s a couple of (admittedly as yet unexciting) proof-of-concept applications running under the OpenLazarus (that’s Pascal/Delphi for people old/mad enough to remember) framework for Maemo 5. I didn’t do much but test and run these, so here’s the results:
OpenLazarus app running on Maemo 5 using standard widgets
OpenLazarus app running under Maemo 5 using Custom Widgets
…and then there’s what I’ve been fiddling with. Thanks to the frankly magnificent Wonko from the talk.maemo.org forums, we have a working Java/SWT stack for the phone. That means that my ShinySlots project can run out of the box and look like this:
You can see that the forced window-size has exposed my slightly-cheating repeating background, and sadly it’s not that performant at the moment, but it works as advertised, and improvements are in hand…
