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

[BenChen]

Originally Posted by hcripe

I made one other change to Sudoku for the touch devices. When the game ends, the "Congratulations" screen has a background that prevents the menus from being seen. The only way I could find to exit the program was to click around where the menus should be to try to bring up the Exit menu. I changed the code in Sudoku.js to:

if (hasNumericButtons)
target.bckGround.show(true);

This causes the background to not display for touch devices so that the menus are still visible.

If this is ok, I have attached the changed Sudoku package.

Howard

Well done, Howard! And thanks for posting a complete package. I had completely lost track of which version I had in my prsplus folders, and my most recent compile had menus that were clickable but had weird graphics all over them!

A couple of notes:

1. Save / Load doesn't seem to work on my 600. Does it work on yours? I am guessing the save / load location may need to be changed. I had to do this for Fiveballs. I used

var datPath = '/Data/fiveballs.dat';

and the save file appears in the "Reader" root directory.

2. The clock in the right lower corner which is built into the game overlaps with the PRS+ clock which I have set up to display in menus. The easy way around this is to hide the built-in clock. (But then it doesn't update as you are playing which I am assuming the built-in clock does!)

3. The play time is not updated. At least it didn't seem to. (I was only playing for a few seconds. Does it only update every minute?)

Now some of this is PRS+ specific and also model-specific, so it may not be exactly easy to solve. Kartu, do you have any thoughts?

Sincerely,
Ben.

[Mark Nord]

Hi, there!

Back online again

Some remarks to Bens post above:

1. So Save-Game isn't working within the Apps-path
   I would suggest to stop here, as I remember that kartu was talking about using the PRS+ "Save-Settings"-method with the Apps. So lets have him finish 2.x beta (advised also for models 505/300 ) and then use a unified approach.
2. clock
3. playtime updates every minute, but commented code for displaying seconds is in the *.js file

Howard:
I think it's fine to remove the background completely even with the 505/300.
My approach to the port was simply to retain as much original look and feel as possible.
Thanks for posting the updated package, too!

[BenChen]

Hi everyone,

I have made a small update to the Chess attachment in post #145. It only affects the non-touch version. Since the 300 does not have PREV and NEXT buttons, I changed it so that numeric buttons 9 and 0 are used instead. For "new game" and "quit", buttons 9 and 0 now need to be held down.

Sincerely,
Ben.

[kartu]

Guys,

On 300 calling games/apps one after another randomly leads to (non-fatal, i.e. connecting to USB still recovers) freeze.
It could be either some not yet understood async process, or some sort of out of memory/resources.

I'll optimize images (size of most could be reduces 2 or more times) and see if it helps (optimizing javascript during the build process could also help, currently I run it using Beta hook), in the future versions please use images from the PRS+ repository.

[kartu]

UPDATE: It seems to be resource issue. In particular Chess / Mahjong seem to be the biggest consumers, they get along with each other, but adding any other game/app into the mix leads to the soft freeze. This could only mean that resources loaded by autorun aren't freed (at least) on 300 ... =/

[kartu]

Another UPDATE: all games / calc work on both 650, 300. (Calc had a typo in launcher code, Calc...getSoValue instead of Core...). 300 still has "out of resources" issue. Checking it on 600 now.

[Mark Nord]

Great News!

Have you checked Save/Load Game in Sudoku respectively Save-HighScore in Fiveballs?
This may work with Beta-code executed from SD-card, but fails (at least with custom-build PRS600 installer) installed versions sitting in /opt/.../dict/
See post #166/167

[kartu]

No, didn't get that far in tests and some unified way of saving data is needed. =/
Anyway, even without save / load functionality those games are good to have.

PS
Mark, could you check if the attached calc is up to date? It works, but "hand" is shown on 650.

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by kartu

Mark, could you check if the attached calc is up to date? It works, but "hand" is shown on 650.

There is a later version in the x.04 release of the SimEnviro (including Icon, translated title, gridcursor hidden if !hasnumericbuttons and fix for the screen-coordinate-offset)
Unfortunately I havn't use your reformated code from the repository to start with.
So I will merge them in the evening and post a new package.
Mark

[kartu]

Nah, I'll overwrite it with your version from 2010-12-05. (hopefully this one is the last one), unless it doesn't work (in which case I'll write about it here )

(With all the rebooting / renaming / trying this and that I've overwritten it with older version)

PS
Is simBackground.jpg really needed?

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by kartu

Nah, I'll overwrite it with your version from 2010-12-05. (hopefully this one is the last one)

This is the last one.

Is simBackground.jpg really needed?

If we remove the about-dialog, which isn't important at all, we can skip all resources except "CalcMainSkin.png"

Which is done in the xml in the attachment
+ I've set gridcursor visibility initally to "false" as my JS set show(true) for 505/300. (Instead of using

this.gridCursor.show ( kbook.autoRunRoot.hasNumericButtons )

[Mark Nord]

Update:
there might be a problem in the JS-code. Again with getSoValue.
I use in my code _Core.system.getSoValue in the SimEnviro but should use plain getSoValue
Mark

[kartu]

Thanks Mark, with suggested changes works fine on 300/600/650 (should also work on 350/950)

I'll push changes to the repository soon.

[kartu]

Might be that it's not resource issue after all, got the same "effect" on 950 which should have plenty of memory. The following sequence lead to soft freeze:

Open Calc, calculate simple sum, exit
Chess, do a couple of moves, exit
Five in a row, a dozen of moves, exit
Mahjong => freeze

PS
Yep, repeatable.
PPS
But works fine on 600, gee...

[Mark Nord]

There are also no problems with PRS+ 1.x on my PRS-505
Just to let you know.

PS: PRS+ v2.x for 505 will be based on 1.1.00.18040 ?