How to create widget for 90X/912

sdevaux · 07-24-2012, 11:28 AM

Hi,

Does anybody knows how to create a widget for the pocket book 90x series (I own a 912)? After long googling session I didn't find anything relevant on this subject. Does it mean I just have to rename my clock.app clock.wdg and put it in the appropriate directory (I assume /mnt/ext1/system/widgets is the good target)...

Best Regards.

rkomar · 07-24-2012, 05:23 PM

I know nothing about how to create a widget. Looking at calc.wdg and calc.app on the device shows them to be different in size, so I doubt you can just use an app for a widget. The widgets also aren't set to be executable in the filesystem, so I would guess that they are loaded into the main screen application and run inside there. They link against /ebrmain/lib/libwidget.so, which the regular apps don't do, so they are built in a different way. Finally, apps generally use the full screen, so I would guess they wouldn't work as widgets, even if they ran.

So, I would say that creating widgets is quite different from creating apps.

07-24-2012, 11:28 AM	#1
sdevaux Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: France Device: PocketBook 912	How to create widget for 90X/912 Hi, Does anybody knows how to create a widget for the pocket book 90x series (I own a 912)? After long googling session I didn't find anything relevant on this subject. Does it mean I just have to rename my clock.app clock.wdg and put it in the appropriate directory (I assume /mnt/ext1/system/widgets is the good target)... Best Regards.

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07-24-2012, 05:23 PM	#2
rkomar Wizard Posts: 3,069 Karma: 18821071 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada Device: PRS-505, PB 902, PRS-T1, PB 623, PB 840, PB 633	I know nothing about how to create a widget. Looking at calc.wdg and calc.app on the device shows them to be different in size, so I doubt you can just use an app for a widget. The widgets also aren't set to be executable in the filesystem, so I would guess that they are loaded into the main screen application and run inside there. They link against /ebrmain/lib/libwidget.so, which the regular apps don't do, so they are built in a different way. Finally, apps generally use the full screen, so I would guess they wouldn't work as widgets, even if they ran. So, I would say that creating widgets is quite different from creating apps.

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