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

[kartu]

Ben, there is already popup message functionality in PRS+. In 2.0.11 it is slightly improved, with reliable delay. (Core.ui.showMsg)

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by BenChen

.. I moved the "Keep jumping, or click piece to end your turn." into a label, but I need to place some temporary graphics underneath. So I tried to make a "popup". I added the appropriate graphic to AppAssets.png and then in AppAssests.xml I made a skin called "popup" (using popup-l, popup-c and popup-r cutouts) and then in draughts.xml I call it as a sprite with id='jumpTextBox'.

But it doesn't work. The sprite appears basically as it appears in AppAssests.png, but doesn't expand to the intended size of the sprite. Can you take a look and see what I am doing wrong?

Hi, Ben!

Without checking your code a "first shot into the blue".

Sprites didn't adapt to their bounding-box, they tile.
Basically: Buttons, Panels and text-controls will do.

So puting your label onto a panel, should work.
See "CalculatorLabel" in Calc as example.
HTH
Mark

[EDIT]
Define the popup like this:

          <cutout id="popup-tl" x="728" y="51" width="5" heiht="3"/>
          <cutout id="popup-tc" x="733" y="51" width="42" height="5"/>
          <cutout id="popup-tr" x="775" y="51" width="5" height="5"/>
          <cutout id="popup-ml" x="728" y="55" width="5" height="25"/>         
          <cutout id="popup-mc" x="733" y="55" width="42" height="25"/>
          <cutout id="popup-mr" x="775" y="55" width="5" height="25"/>
          <cutout id="popup-bl" x="728" y="81" width="5" height="5"/>
          <cutout id="popup-bc" x="733" y="81" width="42" height="5"/>
          <cutout id="popup-br" x="775" y="81" width="5" height="5"/>

        <skin id="popup" 
        	cutouts="popup-tl,popup-tc,popup-tr,popup-ml,popup-mc,popup-mr,popup-bl,popup-bc,popup-br"/>

and in draughts.xml

			<panel id='jumpTextBox'	skin='popup' left='130' width='350' top='24' height='35' active="false" canFocus="false"/>
			<label id='jumpText' skin='touchText' left='130' width='350' top='30' height='20' align='center' text='Keep jumping, or click piece to end your turn.'/>

[/EDIT]

[BenChen]

Thanks, Mark. I will give it a go tomorrow!
Sincerely,
Ben.

[Mark Nord]

Hello Ben,

here is my bunch of apps:

Sudoku without SkinMain, should also look good on PRS-950
Fiveballs with reduced SkinMain
MahJong, with text-based-help and still with the background-image but reduced to the max. (Could be removed and repalced with AppMainSkin if necessary)
Draughts with panel-fix

Still work in progress. Not for use with real devices!

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

Mark and I have been busy stripping these apps back to their barest essentials, and here are the results of our labours:

AppAssets - contains the shared graphics and definitions
Calc
Chess
Draughts
FiveBalls
FiveRow
FreeCell
MahJong
Sudoku

I have tested these on my 600 (using a custom-built PRS+) and they all work fine. It is possible that further tweaking may be needed, so I have kept the apps separate, in order to make it easy to update one of them at a time.

If you find a problem, let us know!

Sincerely,
Ben.

P.S. I have left the older versions in post #193 for archival reasons.

UPDATE 1: Sudoku updated (quit by Home button restored)

UPDATE 2: AppAssets, Chess, Draughts, FreeCell updated (to remove selection definition conflict)

UPDATE 3: Mahjong now has congratulations upon completion (thanks to AppAssets!)

UPDATE 4: Chess, Draughts, FiveBalls, Sudoku updated (fixed for PRS-950)

UPDATE 5: AppAssets updated

IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL FUTURE UPDATES WILL ONLY BE UPLOADED TO THE GOOGLE CODE SITE (HERE).

[Mark Nord]

Hi,
First of all, thank you Ben for compiling this.

But there are some glitches with my bunch of apps:
Sudoku lost the ability to quit via Home-button
Fiveballs MainSkin will extend to full-screen on PRS-950

Solution: add a "allBlack" cutout and skin, fill the background with this and set up a additional panel with skin="FiveBSkin", with top, left, right anchors and set height="800"

Will post fixes to post #244 later today.
Also slightly updated version of Sim with surquizu's awesome new icon-set is to come.

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by Mark Nord

Hi,
First of all, thank you Ben for compiling this.

But there are some glitches with my bunch of apps:
Sudoku lost the ability to quit via Home-button
Fiveballs MainSkin will extend to full-screen on PRS-950

Solution: add a "allBlack" cutout and skin, fill the background with this and set up a additional panel with skin="FiveBSkin", with top, left, right anchors and set height="800"

Will post fixes to post #244 later today.
Also slightly updated version of Sim with surquizu's awesome new icon-set is to come.

Hi Mark,

Regarding Sudoku, I added back the ability to quit via Home-button. Does it not work for some reason?

Sincerely,
Ben.

[Mark Nord]

Ben,
just re-downloades the archive in post#245 and the
doRoot-functionality is missing.
Clicking the Home-button in the Sim with touch-skin didn't close the app.

Spoiler:

<group id="AUTORUN_GROUP" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" visible="false">
	<panel skin="AppMainSkin" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"/>
    <group id="AUTORUN" width="600" top="70" bottom="33">
	   	<sprite id="appIcon" skin="kbookMenuIcon" left="0" width="70" top="-70" height="70" u="44" v="1" active="false" canFocus="false"/>   
		<label id="appTitle" skin="title" left="70" right="0" top="-70" height="70" align="left" text="Sudoku"/>
		<code>
         <function id="doDigit" params="part">
	         this.drawDigit(part.key)
         </function>
         <function id="doMenu">
         	this.doMenuF();
         </function>
         <function id="doCenter">
         	this.doCenterF();
         </function>
         <function id="doMark">
	         this.doCenterF();
         </function>
         <function id="doLeft">
         	this.moveCursor("left");
         </function>
	      <function id="doPrevious">
         	this.moveCursor("left");
         </function>
         <function id="doRight">
         	this.moveCursor("right");
         </function>
         <function id="doNext">
         	this.moveCursor("right");
         </function>
         <function id="doUp">
         	this.moveCursor("up");
         </function>
         <function id="doDown">
        		this.moveCursor("down");
         </function>
      </code>

[BenChen]

Oops, yes, I missed the xml file. Sorry! I will make the change, and update the zip file in the earlier post.

[kartu]

Mark,

I think it's about time to start using repositories for FSkTestEnvironment.
You could use existing repositories on PRS+ project, the only (ugly as hell) problem being that repositories cannot be renamed and neither new could be created (10 max), so the choice is:

default - where prs+ now is. not really an option
firmware - used up to 1.1.3, obsolete
installer - used up to 1.1.3, obsolete
build - used up to 1.1.3, obsolete
600-code - empty
600-firmware - empty
600-build - empty
300-firmware - empty
300-code - empty

Or create a new project, shouldn't take more than about 15 mins to setup.

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

UPDATE 2: AddAssets, Chess, Draughts, FreeCell updated (to remove selection definition conflict)

See post #245.

Sincerely,
Ben.

P.S. I guess a repository would make this updating process easier, assuming that it is as easy to push as it is to pull using hg!

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

UPDATE 3: Mahjong now has congratulations upon completion (thanks to AppAssets!)

See post #245.

Sincerely,
Ben.

[Mark Nord]

As I havn't set up a repository by now, one last classic update to the Sim-Environmet in post #59

Version x.06 comes with surquizu's awesome 3D icon-set, a second page of App-Menu and a special skin to simulate the output for PRS-950
*.bat files in the root-folder allow to start the desired resolution.

normal for screen-resolution of 1024+ lines for any 4:3 reader
800px for laptop-user, again 4:3
PRS-950 requires a screen-res equal or better then 1024 lines and works with a output-window of 600x1024 according the screen of a Sony PRS-950

@ Ben:
Sudoku and Fiveballs (and AppAssets) are included with the latest code. So you may copy this over to post #245

Will you please also check your games with the PRS-950 resolution?
For some apps the "button-hint-texts" are not anchord to bottom.

Enjoy
Mark

[Mark Nord]

Code for FSK Test-Environment for Autorun Applications under MS-Windows is moved to repository apps, kindly provided by kartu, at his prs+ goolgecode project page.
A, very basic, Wiki-page was created, too.

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

UPDATE 4: Chess, Draughts, FiveBalls, Sudoku updated (fixed for PRS-950)

See post #245.

@Mark, if you can update the FSK Test repository, that would be good. Don't forget Mahjong (with the new congratulations upon winning!)

Sincerely,
Ben.