Pi - text editor for Pocketbook

[yuryfdr]

v 0.9.2 - copy/paste and filters in file chooser.

[paola]

excellent, thanks!

[yuryfdr]

v 0.9.3 - some fixes with stilus.

[paola]

thank you!

[yuryfdr]

v 0.9.99 is ready.
I've add quick key binding. File import.
I've also add outline mode that i receive from bogomil. i don't yet check all functionality of it, but may be it can be sometimes usefull.

[yuryfdr]

v 1.0.0
case insensitive search.

[Tulapi]

Thank you

[peekaa]

doesn't work with my new 622 Touch :-( I save pi.app to application folder and after reset of pb it doesn't even appear in menu Application...

[MartinZ]

have you used the version for the pro-models or for old 302 model?

[MartinZ]

Hi yuri,

i managed to build one of the first versions of pi without bigger problems.
But you have changed your toolkit to use "sigc++" and tell us in README, that we have to build "sigc++" first, to build "pbtk" and at last build "pi".

I downloaded "sigc++" source, but I do not know, how to build it on my Ubuntu-System with Sergex Vlasovs SDK and "Eclipse". I can build the demo projects and my own "Calculator", and even my latest program. But all that stuff has regular "Makefiles" while "sigc++" has a "makefile.am"/"makefile.in" pair, that seems to be for "automake" to me.

1) Do I guess right, that i will really have to build "sigc++" myself, because i need a binary for arm_gnueabi to run it on the Pocketbook?

2) How do i get a regular makefile to get "sigc++" built in my Eclipse/Vlasovsoft-system?

3) Furthermore you use one #include to </boost/shared_ptr> (do you really need boost's smart-pointer in "pbtk"?). Can i use boost-library classes for pocketbook development at all?

Greets,
Martin

[peekaa]

Originally Posted by MartinZ

have you used the version for the pro-models or for old 302 model?

yes, both.

[yuryfdr]

Originally Posted by MartinZ

Hi yuri,
1) Do I guess right, that i will really have to build "sigc++" myself, because i need a binary for arm_gnueabi to run it on the Pocketbook?

2) How do i get a regular makefile to get "sigc++" built in my Eclipse/Vlasovsoft-system?

3) Furthermore you use one #include to </boost/shared_ptr> (do you really need boost's smart-pointer in "pbtk"?). Can i use boost-library classes for pocketbook development at all?

Greets,
Martin

1) to build sigc++ you need execute next commands in terminal:
./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi \
--prefix=/usr/local/pocketbook_eabi/ --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi\
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-static --disable-shared

make

make install

2) i use smart pointers to manage images in pbtk (not used in pi but in pbqsp)
as concern boost only inline classes can be used without crosscompiling boost libraries.

[yuryfdr]

Originally Posted by peekaa

doesn't work with my new 622 Touch :-( I save pi.app to application folder and after reset of pb it doesn't even appear in menu Application...

i can say nothing about touch, do you try another programs fo pro-models?

[MartinZ]

Hi yuryfdr,

 to build sigc++ you need execute next commands in terminal:
./configure --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi \
--prefix=/usr/local/pocketbook_eabi/ --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi\
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-static --disable-shared

make

make install

Wow, that was really not self-explaining to me !
It finally worked, after

• installing "M4"
• removing the "--host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi" -tag (that was adviced to me by the configure script)
• installing "gif_lib.h"
• adding environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing to the folder where "sigc++-2.0.pc" is inside.

I got it buit, but heavens- what a work. It took me hours. (of course that's not your fault, it's my low-level knowledge in these things. I can write C++-programs, but i get totally lost in this tricky library matters.)

I think it would be quite a help for other programmers, if your nice pbtk-library would not rely on sigc++ or if it would already contain the sigc++ binaries for arm, arm_eabi and emulator...

i use smart pointers to manage images in pbtk (not used in pi but in pbqsp)
as concern boost only inline classes can be used without crosscompiling boost libraries.

"std::auto_ptr" does not work, because you put image pointers into an STL- container, i guess?
I read, that in current C++ standard "C++11" the shared_ptr template class is defined in "<memory>, that is OK for STL-storage.
But i guess, we have an older C++ standard on our PBSDK, so that we can not use it, right?

If we need boost for the "shared_ptr" for pbtk, i would like to use some other boost-library functions as well, thanks for the hint, that only inline-classes are possible. I again guess, that this is because they will then be compiled by the arm-linux-gnu-eabi crosscompiler, that also compiles my user program, and do not rely on ready-built "lib.so's", right?
Have you already done a cross-compilation for the whole boost-lib?

Anyway - many, many thanks for your apps, your sources and libraries and your helpful hints.



My new program is a guitar songbook, that renders song files in chordpro semantic (chords like [Am] include in the lyrics).
It already works on emulator.
I want to use your pbtk to make the file selection and dialogs.
I want to release that program here as a beta or at least a preview soon.

[yuryfdr]

Originally Posted by MartinZ

I think it would be quite a help for other programmers, if your nice pbtk-library would not rely on sigc++ or if it would already contain the sigc++ binaries for arm, arm_eabi and emulator...

for emulator it will be better use system libsigc++-2.0 and libsigc++-2.0-dev packages. I will upload binaries for arm and arm_gnueabi latter.

Originally Posted by MartinZ

Have you already done a cross-compilation for the whole boost-lib?

no i don't plane yet heavy use of boost library for Pocketbook.

Originally Posted by MartinZ

My new program is a guitar songbook, that renders song files in chordpro semantic (chords like [Am] include in the lyrics).

It's great idea. Do you plane make smth like GuitarPro in the future?