Comments on: Been busy

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:13:22 +0000

“python-qt. To be the only app, you have to get launched instead of Opie. This requires python-quicklauncher to work, and it just doesn’t work at all.”

What you can do, is during the boot sequence, there is a point when it says “launching Opie in 3 seconds…” if you press a key at that time, it doesnt lauch opie, instead leaving you with the terminal. From there, navigate to your python “media player” and run. :)

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Does OZ have a frame buffer? If so, you might be able to write directly to that instead of a GUI? Mplayer for example can write directly to the FB given the right xvidix(?) drivers. Perhaps a vanilla VESA FB would work? Saves having to write something in python.

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

It does, and the X server renders to the framebuffer. I can’t write directly to the FB —I’d have to use a graphics library like pygame, which is the Python SDL bindings, and they don’t do rendering to the FB (they did, at one point, but the patch has bit-rotted to the point that it doesn’t work) :(

By: sparkes

sparkes — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

If I had a zaurus I would help you with patching pygame since it provides a nice way to write fb apps in python and looks well suited.

It shouldn’t be too hard for someone who has using sdl/c and pygame I’ve played with both but don’t have the hardware to play with.

It sounds like a cool idea, in fact just having a few games available as well as a photo album, and media player in such a small package sounds cool, being able to hack the interface yourself makes it really cool ;-)

By: ggggggggggg

ggggggggggg — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

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