PRS-505 FSK Test-Environment for Autorun Applications under MS-Windows

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

Hi Mark, how can i enlarge the skins to view the bottom buttons? because i see from 1 to 0.

thanks

Hi Victor,

at the moment the Sim requires this:
Prerequisite: a vertical screen-resolution equal or better then 1024 px.

I assume you are using a screen with lower resolution.
Unfortunately I havn't adapted the eBookSimMain.xml to a resolution of 1280x800 by now.

So the task is not to enlarge the skin, but to shrink it to fit the vertical resolution.
Maybe you can enable a kind of virtual desktop with a higher resolution then the physical?

Anyway, Wednesday is a holiday in Austria, and the weather-forecast is bad, so I will have time to work on this.

PS: Victor there is no need to quote the full article if posting right under, a quick reply will do.

[VICTORSJG]

Mark, how can i test the different scripts made by Kartu, in this emulator (bookfolders, clock, etc? how does testapp work, because once it's run the application holds?

thanks

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

Mark, how can i test the different scripts made by Kartu, in this emulator (bookfolders, clock, etc)?

You can't.
As the title reads "FSK Test-Environment for Autorun Applications under MS-Windows". This Sim offers access to the FSK-framework as used by autorun-apps (and used by kbook.so on the PRS-Readers)
Kartu does his magic within the code of kbook.so = the main programm of the e-reader, which isn't available outside the device.
Kartus scripts can only be tested on the device.
BTW: You can use and append the not kbook related Core-functions of PRS+.

how does testapp work, because once it's run the application holds

It is what it is named. A additional app I set up to test some aspects of FSK.
In the moment it primary holds test-code for a native FSK-menu (as later used in Sudoku) yet without the neccessary loop-breaking code. So the Sim is cut off all input after menu:Exit - Quit, but not frozen! You can close the Sim via windows-task-bar rigth-click close.
If the Sim is really frozen, you have to KILL it with KILL-FSK.BAT.
HTH
Mark

[Mark Nord]

There are two ways of using it:

1. replace the current eBookSimMain.xml with the attached one while renaming it from eBookSimMain800.xml to eBookSimMain.xml
2. Change this line in eBookSim.xml

   <document href="[applicationPath]eBookSim/scripts/eBookSimMain.xml"/>

   to

   <document href="[applicationPath]eBookSim/scripts/eBookSimMain800.xml"/>

If you are using a lower resoltion you can shift the skin further up by changing this line in eBookSimMain800.xml

 <panel id="MAIN" skin="panel" visible="true" left="0" right="0" top="-37" bottom="0">

but you will cut of part of the top permanently. As the application window cant be "pulled" greater then the actual screen-res.

[VICTORSJG]

Mard thanks for modify the xml to use in 800 pixels screen.

[BenChen]

Hi Mark and others,

I've finished the first draft of my game for the PRS test environment. It works in both Touch and non-Touch (although it is far easier to use in Touch mode!) Hope people enjoy it!

If you discover any problems, please let me know.

Sincerely,
Ben.

P.S. Kartu, I would be very happy for you to include this in PRS+! I actually spent the last few days programming this game as a thank-you to you for all your work on PRS+. I am really enjoying it on my 600!

EDIT: Attachment removed. The updated version is available in post #77 of this thread (located on page 6).

UPDATE: Latest version now found in post #145.

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by BenChen

New game to try: Five In A Row

Wow!
Works like a charm!
And it is not the first piece of JS-code you are doing, I assume.
Will try on the PRS-505 ASAP.
Startup-Code for PRS+ v2.0.x attached.

[BenChen]

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the encouragement! Actually, it was my first time programming in Java Script ever. I'm a Visual Basic guy from way back... But having some examples to follow made it easier! (Thanks to the author of Fiveballs for some of the framework of the code, and I was also spending quite a while looking at kartu's Touch modifications to the Sudoku game, especially the menus.) But the computer's moves code is all mine - based on an old VB game I wrote more than a decade ago!
I hope it actually works on the PRS-models. I never tried it on my 600 - not really sure how to slip it into PRS+ and have it appear in menus, etc... So having the test environment was essential. Thanks for putting your time into developing that!
Sincerely,
Ben.

[VICTORSJG]

BenChen, i've tested the game, but when i'm playing i don't see a mark to know where the cursor is. is it posible to implement in the code this?

In mode touchscreen, when i click on the screen, nothing happens.

thanks

[BenChen]

Are you using the latest version of the Test Environment? I don't know if that would make a difference. On my computer, when you click a square with the mouse, your X just appears.

There is a cursor in non-Touch mode, however.

[BenChen]

Hi Mark,
I just loaded Five In A Row onto my 600 (using a custom built PRS+ installer) and the game works fine. Perhaps the buttons are a bit on the small side (I guess there is always the stylus), but it was still very playable. I'm really happy! Much thanks to you and Kartu!

[Mark Nord]

@ VICTORSJG

startcode in "eBookSimMain800.xml" <function id="setView" params="app"> should look like this:

	 case "Fiverow" : {
			kbook.autoRunRoot.getSoValue = _Core.system.getSoValue;
			kbook.autoRunRoot.hasNumericButtons = _Core.config.compat.hasNumericButtons;
			this.MAIN.EINK.VIEW.setURI("../addons/Fiverow/fiverow.xml");				
			break;
	}

[VICTORSJG]

Mark now it's ok, the mark appears when i move the cursor, i had forgotten incluide in the scripts the numerics buttons.

Thanks


is it posible to install this game in prs 1.3 for prs 505?

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by BenChen

Hi Mark,
I just loaded Five In A Row onto my 600 (using a custom built PRS+ installer) and the game works fine.

Perfect!
I was just to point you to the PRS+ beta-test feature.

If PRS+ code is present on SD-Card in a place specified in kconfig.xml [prspBetaStartupFile], PRS+ will start from the card and not out of the firmware.

Unfortunately I can't extract the PRS+600 Base image. (Error: superblock magic not found) and kconfig.xml for the 600 isn't included in the repository, so you have to find out on your own.

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by VICTORSJG

is it posible to install this game in prs 1.3 for prs 505?

I assume so, but can't test because my reader shows a nasty IM corruption, so I will have to recover this first.

The startscript is pretty much the same as the one I posted in #67 with this modifications to function activate:

activate: function () {
	kbook.autoRunRoot.getSoValue = Core.system.getSoValue;
	kbook.autoRunRoot.hasNumericButtons = true;
		
	kbook.autoRunRoot.path = Core.config.addonsPath + "Fiverow/fiverow.xml";
	kbook.autoRunRoot.enterIf(kbook.model);
		},