iLiad ANNOUNCE: Lua5.1 package for Iliad

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by hansel

The more I play with Lgob, the more I like it!
I started a page about Lgob for Iliad. It has (some) references about building it...
https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/luailiad/wiki/lgob

first, sorry for the silence these days I'm currently travelling a lot.

afaik, lgob is based on the new glib/gtk+ introspection infraestructure Johan Dahlin has written. Johan is the mantainer of glib/gtk+ python bindings.

And that's the part I don't understand, how can it work with older glib/gtk+ versions?

Iñigo

PS: btw, thanks for CC'ing in those emails with lgui people

[hansel]

I built a more or less decent Iliad package for lgob (svn 501). It is 'alpha', but it is good enough to play with.

The attached tgz contains:

- A small demo, written in Lua with Lgob for the gui (a unit converter)
- An ipk-package for Lua
- An ipk-package for Lgob
- A nice installer, my latest install technology ;-)
- xx, a small xedpmgr like program to handle display refresh and enable the keyboard

Just unpack on your memory card and start the installer from the content lister

Not bad for 1/2 MB he?

Please test and comment!

@Iñigo: the lgob build process uses text files with info about all gtk/gdk functions and classes. This file knows which functions can be used in which gtk version. The build scripts uses this information to generate a Lua biding for a given version. It's really great.

Many thanks to Lucas Hermann Negri for developing lgob!

PS: I keep all my Iliad stuff in svn of the mobilread dev corner. Feel free to browse around.
The files for this demo are here: https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/luai...ments/LgobTest
The files I use to build lgob are here: https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/luai...ser/trunk/lgob

[hansel]

: New versions for Lua and lgob (the interface to GTK) are available as ipk files.

lua5.1-iliad-1.5.0.ipk: added support for libcurl
lgob-iliad-0.1.5.ipk: more features, fewer bugs (based on svn 528)

Download: https://dev.mobileread.com/dist/hansel/luailiad/
Info: https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/luailiad

EDIT: the ipk files are included in the small demo mentioned in post 9 of https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43929

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by hansel

: New versions for Lua and lgob (the interface to GTK) are available as ipk files.

lua5.1-iliad-1.5.0.ipk: added support for libcurl
lgob-iliad-0.1.5.ipk: more features, fewer bugs (based on svn 528)

Download: https://dev.mobileread.com/dist/hansel/luailiad/
Info: https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/luailiad

It works smoothly.

Iñigo

[hansel]

I just Bought a Squeezebox Duet, a cool network music system by Logitech.

It has Linux (arm), WIFI, an SDK, you can ssh into it, AND it uses Lua for a lot of internal stuff (applets, the menu system, etc, etc...). It shows that Lua is great for embeded Linux devices, and might be a source of great ideas for Iliad development ;-)

Links:

• SqueezeOS Software architecture
  
• Squeezebox Duet Product info

Cheers,
Hansel

[Iñigo]

Btw, what do you think about http://dev.luci.freifunk-halle.net/nixio/doc/ ?
It looks a good replacement for some of the modules.

Iñigo

[ericshliao]

I've heard of this device some time ago. Quite fancy and interesting. It seems can cooperate with something called SlimServer? I am not so sure.

[hansel]

Originally Posted by Iñigo

Btw, what do you think about http://dev.luci.freifunk-halle.net/nixio/doc/ ?
It looks a good replacement for some of the modules.
Iñigo

Yes I think so. Didn't have time to test it yet... Did you have a look at it?
For now I don't have any simple use for it (and for Lua). I'd like to reimplement (parts of) ContenLister in Lua, but that's a big project (with a small audience)...

Besides, I get the feeling that the IliadOS is dying.

[hansel]

Originally Posted by ericshliao

I've heard of this device some time ago. Quite fancy and interesting. It seems can cooperate with something called SlimServer? I am not so sure.

Its called Squeezecenter now. It's an open source app (server) writen in perl that streams you file to the player. It has a web interface that allows yoyu to manage everything... http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/su...ezecenter.html. You can download an install it, and use it with a squeezeplayer (media player) that is compatible with the controller http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezePlay (the remote that runs linux, lua, wifi, etc). Really cool!

The sdk has a crosscompiler for arm. I didn't manage to build a new kernel yet

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by hansel

Its called Squeezecenter now. It's an open source app (server) writen in perl that streams you file to the player. It has a web interface that allows yoyu to manage everything... http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/su...ezecenter.html. You can download an install it, and use it with a squeezeplayer (media player) that is compatible with the controller http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezePlay (the remote that runs linux, lua, wifi, etc). Really cool!

The sdk has a crosscompiler for arm. I didn't manage to build a new kernel yet

Fascinating.
Both SqueezeCenter and SqueezePlay work smoothly on my linux machines.
The only problem I found is that squeezeplay doesn't work at all on my x86_64 desktop, but not a problem, I will use it on my eeepc and there it performs superbly.


I've been postponing uPNP configuration on my home servers for some months because it was complex and boring... and now you come into and show me the perfect, fastest and more beautiful solution, and it works like a charm, it's almost a plug'n'play solution!!!

Thanks a lot,
Iñigo




PS: I'll try to convince my wife during next holidays in the romantic Flandes and get a SqueezeBox Duet afterwards ;-)

[Iñigo]

Hi again guys,


Find attached a small tool to help you mantain clean your recent files list.

It's a small lua + lgob script that allows you to remove some unneeded entries from your recent files list. Please note that it doesn't remove the files, only their correspondent entries in Recent Documents view.

Install package is based on (read, completely stealed from) hansel's MultiCalc.
It contains hansel's last released versions of lua and lgob and "xx" app to manage screen refresh.

(btw Hansel, there is a new lgob version released a few days ago... ;-)


Hope you like this.
Best regards,
Iñigo

PS: btw, I bought an Squeezebox Boom... very nice. Thanks again for the pointer

[hansel]

Originally Posted by Iñigo

Find attached a small tool to help you mantain clean your recent files list.

Cool! It works. Is it intended as 'clear private data' function? Beautiful GUI btw, You should add a screenshot... It great to be able to build apps without compiling anything, he?

(btw Hansel, there is a new lgob version released a few days ago... ;-)

I'll try to do a lgob update soon. It's motivating to see it used...

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by hansel

Cool! It works.

Of course! Iñigo, developing small, ugly, but running apps since ~1980 ;-)

Originally Posted by hansel

Is it intended as 'clear private data' function?

Well, I often have to show the iLiad to surprised coworkers or friends, and my recent files list ends polluted with many not so interesting books...

Originally Posted by hansel

Beautiful GUI btw, You should add a screenshot... It great to be able to build apps without compiling anything, he?

Screenshot added.
Ok, lua is not as nice as python, specially gtk bindings look somehow strange... unpythonic I would dare to say ;-)

Originally Posted by hansel

I'll try to do a lgob update soon. It's motivating to see it used...

I have lot of ideas, but not time.
I don't know much about lua either, so these experiments look horrible, specially comparing with your MultiCalc clean sources, or my python code, for instance.
I'll clean and fix the app eventually.

Among these ideas:
* iLiad Toolbox: some small utilities, like this RecentFiles. Have any proposals?
* File Browser

Iñigo

PS. btw, know uzbl web browser?

[ericshliao]

Originally Posted by Iñigo

PS. btw, know uzbl web browser?

Interesting. I don't know this browser until now.

Just had a browse. This is the dependencies:
git (for downloading)
pkgconfig (for Make/gcc)
libwebkit 1.1.4 or higher
libsoup 2.24 or higher (dep for webkit/gtk+)
gtk 2.14 or higher

It seems that all dependencies are met. I will try to build it when I have time.

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by ericshliao

Interesting. I don't know this browser until now.
[...]
It seems that all dependencies are met. I will try to build it when I have time.

It's popular on archlinux. Very easy and fast to build.

Anyway, its philosophy is pure DIY, even the key bindings have to be configured.
Tell me if you want to take a look at my config.

Iñigo