Pal Szasz’s blog… or something like that…

Let’s start for a more important news for you: I applied for Sourcefoge project hosting for some of the open source UIQ3 programs I wrote. So far StickIt is in CVS (and I will use the SF CVS host from now on, which means the latest version of the source code will be always accessible to the pubic ), and ClockSS and TOSC is comming soon (the projects are already created, I am importing the code in CVS now.

So, the URLS:

• http://www.sf.net/projects/stickit
• http://www.sf.net/projects/clockss
• http://www.sf.net/projects/tosc

You can use the bug tracking services of SF to post bugs you find in this app. That way it will be easier for me to track them (since right now I got feedbacks, bug reports and feature requests from at least 4 different sources (forums, this blog, emails)). And it’s quite possible that I miss a few bugs.

And now some other topic: today I had to wait a lot (in a hospital), so I tested Pixy by creating some icons (40×40 and 64×64) for it. The 16×16 icon was also made by pixy. They are not perfect, but Pixy is already very usable (more usable then the previous/old UIQ2 version, thanks to the UNDO feature )

Here are the icons:

I found the missing piece in the puzzle, and now TOSC (aka The Open Screen Capture) is working even if the app is in the background. I mean you can now start the capture by clicking on the floating window (let’s call it radar?).

You can download the new binary here:  theopenscreencapture_0_3.sis

I havent uploaded the new source code yet (lack of time), but there is only one line changed (added actually): in the AppUi the following method is called:

IgnorePointerEventsWhenInBackground(EFalse)

Well, I sorted out some of the problems, but there are still some problems ahead… but I think the program is already usefull.

First of all: the floating widnow wierdness was my bug (there was an iPosition both in TPointerEvent and in CCoeControll, and some DrawDeferred calls were missing).

Still no pointer events while the main window is not visible

But I finally sorted out the memory problems (thanks to the UIQ and SE dev forums). Just for the record, elf2e32’s -heap option can take two arguments, and the second one is the maxium heap. (I was setting the minimum to 2MB, and let the maximum at 2MB… hihi…)

Anyway, the program is partly functional, can be downloaded here: UIQ3 binary: theopenscreencapture_0_2.sis, source code: tosc_0_2_src.tar.gz

Features:

• floating icon which shows the download counter (and which is hidden when the screenshot is made)
• saves to PNG format (less file size then BMP files) on the memory card
• users can choose between 0sec, 10sec and 30sec timeout.

And some screenshots:

Well, that’s it for now, more to come later.

Today I finally decied I need a good and free screen capture utility, so I started to work on a new project called TOSC - The Open Screen Capture. Prety lame name, I know… but it’s good enough for me… temporary.

Anyway, as the name sais, it will be a completely free and even opensource program… when it will be ready, but right now I have some problems with it

First of all the floating window I created doesn’t seem to get any pointer event if the main view is not visible.

Second: it behaves pretty strangly when the main view is visible as well. But hopefully I will sort out these errors ASAP.