Guest frankwilliams Posted January 23, 2003 Report Posted January 23, 2003 Can anyone tell me how easy/difficult it would be to port this shareware PocketPC file exploring program to the spv? This version is for arm processors, there are a couple of other available. http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/pocke...plorerarm.shtml Cheers in advance ;) , Frank
Guest spacemonkey Posted January 23, 2003 Report Posted January 23, 2003 OK, couple of issues. Even though it is freeware it doesn't seem to be open source. Without source code the only people who could port it are the authors themselves. If the source was available, for an app such as this it would depend majorly on whether it was using MFC. MFC is like a toolkit of common components, as in File Open dialogues, tree views etc. MFC does not exist for the Smartphone OS. This is why for instance the port of GnuBoy doesn't have a rom file picker screen at the moment because the PocketPC version used an MFC control, and for Smartphone the screen has to be written the hard way. Also, for an app like this it is very focused on stylus based input, smartphone doesn't have a stylus so interface redesign, mapping it to keys etc would be a major issue. (Again, as an example, the GnuBoy system was always based on hardware controls, cos it's a game, so was an easy port. The menus currently don't work cos they were designed for stylus input.) So. in summary, To port easily to smartphone you need: Source Code, Button based apps with preferably little MFC. This tends to match up to games very well, but applications not so much. Which is a shame cos apps are something we really need.
Guest MBoden Posted January 23, 2003 Report Posted January 23, 2003 Yeah spacemonkey is right, the problems are the lack of source, and the difference in userinterface :-/ i'll look into it
Guest frankwilliams Posted January 27, 2003 Report Posted January 27, 2003 How about this application - http://www.pdagold.com/software_old/ppc/30...licationID=1390 License: Public domain / GNU / GPL Source is here http://www.nakka.com/soft/copen/src/ Could tell you what it is doing on my phone if it was sized correctly!
Guest Ed Posted January 27, 2003 Report Posted January 27, 2003 "Description: It is the tool which inputs a file name and a command line and performs a file. Shortcut can also be created to arbitrary folders with the file name and command line which were inputted." What the blithering hell does that mean?
Guest frankwilliams Posted January 27, 2003 Report Posted January 27, 2003 it'll run programs/create shortcuts for you.
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