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knc1 · 08-02-2017, 08:14 AM

Any environment that supports GTK+ 2.0 will do for GTK+ graphical applications.
That includes your favorite desktop system, just have the maximum screen size limited (somehow) - I think just by sizing the window it is running in.
(GTK is an interpretive language and pre-installed on the touchscreen Kindles.)

There are other choices than GTK+ 2.0 with varying degrees of support pre-installed, I will have to look up some links for you.

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You haven't even touched the surface of building Kindle applications -
twobob compiled webkit-GTK+ on a KindleTouch (the source of which is next to impossible to cross-compile) - that only took 4 days and he had most of the framework stopped and a swap file enabled.

I think that work is posted in one of his threads where he was building opensource browsers for the Kindles.

Not to laugh - a Kindle Touch emulating an IBM-360 is about as fast as an early entry level model.
We (twobob and I) released the Hercules emulator built for the Kindle Touch.
I am pretty sure that project never got tested on the newer devices based on the i.MX6.

Note:
OS-360, 360-VMS and a few others are public domain.
With the glaring exception of the macro assembler - which sort of puts a speed bump into developing 360/370/390/z-system code on your Kindle Touch.

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knc1 Going Viral Posts: 17,212 Karma: 18210809 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Central Texas Device: No K1, PW2, KV, KOA	Any environment that supports GTK+ 2.0 will do for GTK+ graphical applications. That includes your favorite desktop system, just have the maximum screen size limited (somehow) - I think just by sizing the window it is running in. (GTK is an interpretive language and pre-installed on the touchscreen Kindles.) There are other choices than GTK+ 2.0 with varying degrees of support pre-installed, I will have to look up some links for you. = = = = = You haven't even touched the surface of building Kindle applications - twobob compiled webkit-GTK+ on a KindleTouch (the source of which is next to impossible to cross-compile) - that only took 4 days and he had most of the framework stopped and a swap file enabled. I think that work is posted in one of his threads where he was building opensource browsers for the Kindles. Not to laugh - a Kindle Touch emulating an IBM-360 is about as fast as an early entry level model. We (twobob and I) released the Hercules emulator built for the Kindle Touch. I am pretty sure that project never got tested on the newer devices based on the i.MX6. Note: OS-360, 360-VMS and a few others are public domain. With the glaring exception of the macro assembler - which sort of puts a speed bump into developing 360/370/390/z-system code on your Kindle Touch. Last edited by knc1; 08-02-2017 at 08:20 AM.