06-08-2007, 01:37 PM | #16 |
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igorsk, has Sony tried to hire you yet??
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06-08-2007, 01:49 PM | #17 |
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No, why would they?
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06-08-2007, 02:02 PM | #18 |
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Well, to make use of your skills, obviously. You seem to be able to do things that the programmers that they have working for them now evidently can't.
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06-08-2007, 04:41 PM | #19 |
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I'm sure they can do all that just fine. It's just that the marketing folks have their own vision.
I myself am working in a pretty big company's (not so big) software department and I can perfectly understand why Sony doesn't add more features and why they don't release a full SDK. |
08-18-2007, 11:36 AM | #20 |
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I have troubles working with the testviewer sample.
After proper compilling of the dll with VS2005, I placed it in the directory next to the reader executable file. I run Connect, with the "debug console" open. When trying to open a ".txt2" file with something like "HEllo world !", inside, nothing happens. The reader UI doesn't show anything in the viewing windows, not even a blank page. When I check the console (I commented nearly all the "printf" lines to avoid filling the console windows with junk I don't need at the time), I can see that the application open and dispose the file 2 consecutives times. I don't know if it's the proper behavior. More, when I check hostData->pszFileUrl (the name of the file normally passed to the dll file), Code:
printf("File: %s, \n", hostData->pszFileUrl); Code:
File: (null) I suppose there's a problem when the file is handled to the dll. But I don't know what's wrong (and I imagine that tracing the whole Connect with a debugger will be a real pain...). Does anybody have a hint ? |
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09-11-2007, 11:39 PM | #21 |
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html?
Learning that the Reader ran tinyhttp, I loaded an html file on an SD card and popped it into the Reader. It failed to show up in the file list in the Reader. Wondering then whether the Reader would render html embedded in a text file, I changed the file extension to "txt" and put it back into the Reader. Again, it failed to show up in the file list on the Reader, though the Reader had placed its characteristic data on the SD card.
This suggests the Reader is actually looking at the file content during the indexing process. It would be nice if the Reader would display html. Any ideas? |
09-12-2007, 09:53 AM | #22 |
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Despite the fact that the main application is called "tinyhttp", it's NOT an HTTP server or an HTML browser. Currently there's no ability to render HTML in the Reader.
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09-12-2007, 12:28 PM | #23 |
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Igor on your SDK(the little example app), did you download the GCC source on the Sony Linux site and just use the same source code to compile for ARM ?
Once I get a development environment up and going, there could very well be a HTML parser soon Many sources of content is in HTML. |
09-12-2007, 01:46 PM | #24 |
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Actually I didn't try compiling for ARM yet.
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09-12-2007, 04:16 PM | #25 |
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So since you linked the apps to the library, will that text app actually run on the reader? One would think you would have to set up an ARM compiler toolchain and compile that library with ARM9 (proper chip) as the cpu target before beeing able to use it on device native apps?
I guess I just dont understand what you can do with the little SDK if it is not compiled for ARM to run on the reader. Is there a emulator? Does it run on the reader? I dont understand. Once me and my friend have a worked development environment we will post a package and instructions so any programmer can get up and running making custom apps for the reader. |
09-13-2007, 03:59 AM | #26 |
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The API used in Connect software on PC is the same, so you can test your plugins on PC and then port to the Reader.
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09-13-2007, 11:35 AM | #27 |
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That is kind of interesting. I installed the reader and tried various conversion tools. I didn't know the preview window was actually an emulator of the reader software.
Thanks Igor. Once I get my reader I will actually try some code. I've got my arm toolchain almost setup here in Ubuntu so will be able to compile stuff for the reader shortly. |
09-13-2007, 07:24 PM | #28 |
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Can someone post the LRS documents in a zip file? I've tried getting registered and it's just not working for me.
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