mancala KUAL (native) PW/Touch

[twobob]

So yeah.

Learning new skills
http://xforms-toolkit.org/

I found something to hack on.

UPSTREAM http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool....debian.tar.gz
mancala
basic but fun.

Enjoy.

[twobob]

won my first game
yay.

lol.

[nasser]

mancala..?
you've really gone retro..

[nasser]

Seems tooo tiny on the PW..
See attached screenshot..
Is there an option to resize it..?

[knc1]

Originally Posted by nasser

Seems tooo tiny on the PW..
See attached screenshot..
Is there an option to resize it..?

Notice its placement with respect to the Amazon UI layers.

**Nothing** in the Amazon UI layers has a higher display priority.
**Nothing** in the Amazon UI has a higher event capture priority.

**AND** it is still being managed by the Kindle's window manager.

Those are the significant things to notice.
Size? Trivial.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by nasser

Seems tooo tiny on the PW..
See attached screenshot..
Is there an option to resize it..?

hmm.. I will have to have another hack at the core code.

Originally Posted by knc1

Notice its placement with respect to the Amazon UI layers.

**Nothing** in the Amazon UI layers has a higher display priority.
**Nothing** in the Amazon UI has a higher event capture priority.

**AND** it is still being managed by the Kindle's window manager.

Those are the significant things to notice.
Size? Trivial.

Yup. What knc1 said here was the thrust of the hacking...

But I guess I should try to "focus down" making it playable...
On the pile TODO:

which is a big pile now

(fix rotation in glaculator, finish osmo, blah blah blah)
perhaps YOU would fancy a nose around in the code?????

(I linked it and everything...)

[Aeris]

Osmo <3

[nasser]

I could nose around..
But dunno if i could smell much..
But yes.. you are a one man porting army..
Need more soldiers..

[twobob]

Originally Posted by nasser

I could nose around..
But dunno if i could smell much..
But yes.. you are a one man porting army..
Need more soldiers..

Hey 24 hours ago I too had never heard of xforms...

Only one way to find out...

[twobob]

Originally Posted by Aeris

Osmo <3

Yup. pulling together the pieces.

"L:D_N:dialog_ID:thing_RKB:true"

(leave space for a keyboard)

bit by bit...

[twobob]

Originally Posted by nasser

Seems tooo tiny on the PW..
See attached screenshot..
Is there an option to resize it..?

http://xforms-toolkit.org/doc/xforms_6.html#IDX141

get your hands dirty

[brianinmaine]

Originally Posted by twobob

http://xforms-toolkit.org/doc/xforms_6.html#IDX141

get your hands dirty

Looking through xform.c from mancala, it looks to me like all the objects have hard-coded sizes for everything - text size, even.

 fdui->holeT0 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,65,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,100);
  fdui->holeT1 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,105,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,101);
  fdui->holeT2 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,145,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,102);

the hole size seems to be 40x40 and the others must be placement on a grid. To make this bigger, I would guess it would be a total rewrite of this file PITA! Even though I LOVE mancala, this would be a very time consuming job...

[knc1]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

Looking through xform.c from mancala, it looks to me like all the objects have hard-coded sizes for everything - text size, even.

 fdui->holeT0 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,65,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,100);
  fdui->holeT1 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,105,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,101);
  fdui->holeT2 = obj = fl_add_button(FL_NORMAL_BUTTON,145,60,40,40,"");
    fl_set_object_boxtype(obj,FL_DOWN_BOX);
    fl_set_object_lcol(obj,FL_SLATEBLUE);
    fl_set_object_lsize(obj,FL_HUGE_SIZE);
    fl_set_object_lstyle(obj,FL_BOLD_STYLE+FL_EMBOSSED_STYLE);
    fl_set_object_callback(obj,doHole,102);

the hole size seems to be 40x40 and the others must be placement on a grid. To make this bigger, I would guess it would be a total rewrite of this file PITA! Even though I LOVE mancala, this would be a very time consuming job...

It might be no more work than to re-write it to read those values from a configuration file.

In fact, it looks like that layout could be 'normalized' to calculate at start-up time from a few configuration file key values.
(grid size x.y, stride x, stride y - something like that)

[twobob]

@Brian. riiiight.

You know I kind of recall that being the case when I read through it the first time.
Yup. Time consuming.

There IS a gui out there somewhere I think for this stuff...
but damned if I know anything about it.

And Brian? NICE ONE! for having a look. Respect to you.

[twobob]

Originally Posted by knc1

It might be no more work than to re-write it to read those values from a configuration file.

In fact, it looks like that layout could be 'normalized' to calculate at start-up time from a few configuration file key values.
(grid size x.y, stride x, stride y - something like that)

Damn good point.