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Old 04-10-2011, 03:27 PM   #1
hjalfi
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Javascript shell for the Kindle

Hi,

I bought a Kindle a couple of weeks ago. I think I had a jailbreak installed within two hours...

I've got a reasonably decent port of the Rhino Javascript interpreter for the Kindle:

http://www.cowlark.com/kindle/javascript.html

It's living in a custom VT52-ish terminal emulator, and I've done my own keyboard handling and command line editing so I can type proper Javascript expressions on the Kindle's keypad. Rhino's integration with Java makes it really useful for exploring the Java APIs, because I can manipulate Java objects right from the command line.
Alas, the security policies mean that we can't actually get out of the JVM sandbox (including creating our own class loader to make Rhino's JIT work, curses curses), but it's still quite handy.

Don't suppose anyone's figured out how to do custom fonts in a Kindlet? The standard monospace font looks like suck with antialiasing turned off (needed to make it comfortable to type on).

People may be interested to pull it apart; among other things, it's using retroweaver to let me use Java 1.5 constructs on the Kindle.

There's a binary too (which includes installers for my public keys so people can run it).

I've also written up some notes on how to get started with Kindle application development:

http://www.cowlark.com/kindle/getting-started.html

I hope this is useful to someone...
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Old 03-16-2012, 07:08 PM   #2
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Nice tool, but it is optimized to Kindle 3 and not to Kindle DX
And it fails by writing message to file. (sample commands)

Code:
  var home = kjs.getHomeDirectory();
  var f = new java.io.File(home, "test.txt");
  var ps = new java.io.PrintStream(f);
  ps.println("Hello, world!");
  ps.close();

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Old 03-17-2012, 05:31 PM   #3
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That's because the ghastly old dialect of Java that the Kindle supports does support creating PrintStreams directly from Files. You have to create a FileOutputStream first. Try this:

var home = kjs.getHomeDirectory();
var f = new java.io.File(home, "test.txt");
var fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(f);
var ps = new java.io.PrintStream(fos);

The Kindle only supports PBP 1.1, which is now pathetically old; see the documentation here for the API list:

http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config...217/index.html
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