[plug] Zaurus programming

[Trevor Phillips]

On Saturday 15 May 2004 12:41, Kevin Shackleton wrote:
> Recently a few Zaurus 5500's were sold out among PLUGgers.  I'm trying
> to get started with programming these (eg Qtopia or PyQt) and would
> appreciate assistance.

What sort of assistance? If you're just after pointers, then I recommend PyQt. 
I'm a Perl person, yet found it relatively easy to whip up GUI apps in Python 
using PyQt. I used the QT Designer to do most of the interface work, then the 
Python back-end code.

Coming from a Web programming background, a lot of my apps deal with data 
stored in a DB. I found sqlite did a great job for small PyQT apps (and also 
came with Z versions).

I personally haven't used the Sharp ROM (either the old or new) in ages. I've 
been using OpenZaurus 3.3.6-pre1 since soon after it's release. It's not 
wonderfully stable or bug-free, but it's quite feature-rich, and fast.

If you need more specific help, let me know. I actually haven't done much 
coding for my Z in months, so I may be a bit behind the times on library 
versions & the latest compatability issues tho. ^_^

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