Zaurus Port Of Treeline, Out the door Options

[zenyatta]

Hi all,

I started working on a Zaurus port of the fine TreeLine outliner early last year but later got distracted. I haven't touched it in about 7 months now and it isn't really ready for a release but I do use it daily and absolutely can't do without it, despite the bugs. As I have trouble finding the time to finish it, I have decided to release it in its crude present state. Either someone will pick it up or enough users will find it promising enough to nag me into activity Or maybe it won't interest anyone, which is fine. In any case, it is there, on my homepage.

Cheers,
z.

[fpp]

Episode 6 - A real problem...

The only thing I've found that is not workable on the Z is the "Configure Data Types" dialog in its present state.

The top and bottom parts are off-screen, along with a couple of fields and the OK/Cancel buttons...

On my 760 the Cancel button on the keyboard dismisses the dialog, but the OK button does not validate it. So as far as I can tell, you can't *define* a new record type directly on the Zaurus version.

Of course, you can run the app on your desktop PC too (Windows/Linux), so you can organize your data types there, then copy over the .trl file(s), so that doesn't mean you can't put treeline to good use on the Z !

Maybe someone familiar wih Qt/QPE could turn that dialog into a vertically scrolling one like the General Options above ?

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Thanks to Zenyatta for making his port available !

If there's something specific anyone wants tried/tested/checked, just ask...

Enjoy,
fp

[kahm]

Episode 6 - A real problem...

The only thing I've found that is not workable on the Z is the "Configure Data Types" dialog in its present state.

The top and bottom parts are off-screen, along with a couple of fields and the OK/Cancel buttons...

On my 760 the Cancel button on the keyboard dismisses the dialog, but the OK button does not validate it. So as far as I can tell, you can't *define* a new record type directly on the Zaurus version.

Of course, you can run the app on your desktop PC too (Windows/Linux), so you can organize your data types there, then copy over the .trl file(s), so that doesn't mean you can't put treeline to good use on the Z !

Maybe someone familiar wih Qt/QPE could turn that dialog into a vertically scrolling one like the General Options above ?

 scrn005.jpg ( 108.9K ) Number of downloads: 182


Thanks to Zenyatta for making his port available !

If there's something specific anyone wants tried/tested/checked, just ask...

Enjoy,
fp

I'm not familiar with Python, so I'm not even going to try and fix the problem. Just curious, though - Have you tried rotating the screen? That may bring the dialog buttons into view.

[zenyatta]

fpp: You da man! I'm very impressed. Two of the problems you mention are very easy to solve or work around:

1. The Enter key on the keyboard is equivalent to the OK key, at least on the 5500. That allows me to define new data types even on the Zaurus (although it is pure torture). I have added this workaround to the documentation.

2. If the biggest difference between Sharp and OZ packages is the archiving program used, it's very trivial to create both versions. I have now added a package to the download area that will hopefully work with Sharp ROMs. I have no way of testing that, of course. There may be dependency problems if python packages on the Sharp side are structured differently than under OZ. It might have to be installed without dependency checking.

I must say I never thought that differences between Sharp ROMs and OpenZaurus might present bigger problems than differences between Zaurus models

Cheers,
z.

[fpp]

fpp: You da man! I'm very impressed. Two of the problems you mention are very easy to solve or work around:
1. The Enter key on the keyboard is equivalent to the OK key, at least on the 5500. That allows me to define new data types even on the Zaurus (although it is pure torture).

On the 760 keyboard the Enter and OK keys are also equivalent, and generally map to a dialog's OK/Yes button... but not on this one. Mostly it seems to call the "modify data type list" dialog, although it depends where the focus is.
There are other workarounds though : kham's idea works (nice call kham, see below !), and also you can tab your way to the OK button itself (4 tabs from the "output format" field, or 2 shift-tabs from the first field) and press Enter. But I agree it's strictly for emergencies only

2. If the biggest difference between Sharp and OZ packages is the archiving program used, it's very trivial to create both versions. I have now added a package to the download area that will hopefully work with Sharp ROMs.

Well, dunno if it's really trivial, but this one doesn't work here :

CODE

# ipkg install treeline_0.8.1_sharp_arm.ipk
zcat: stdin: unexpected end of file
ipkg_install_file: ERROR unpacking control.tar.gz from treeline_0.8.1_sharp_arm.ipk

BTW, that's the exact same error I received many times while trying to build my own ipk from the OZ original, which is why I ended up installing by hand. So there must be another difference somewhere...