The Contiki Operating System

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 21:33, Adam Dunkels wrote:

> Ok... that might sound a bit complicated, but hopefully it will become
> clearer when actually trying it out. As always, comments are welcome!

not that it would be related..but... is that text-widget we talked about 
implemented yet? :O)

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 21:48, Groepaz wrote:
> > Ok... that might sound a bit complicated, but hopefully it will become
> > clearer when actually trying it out. As always, comments are welcome!
> 
> not that it would be related..but... is that text-widget we talked about 
> implemented yet? :O)

No, it is still on my todo-list :-) But, in the meantime, it is possible
to get *almost* the same functionality by using a regular CTK_LABEL. The
only difference is that it isn't possible to receive cursor key presses,
return/enter key presses, the menu key (usually F1), or the window
switching key (usually F3). The interface is the same as it will be once
the CTK_TEXTMAP widget is implemented.

To use this, listen to the ctk_signal_keypress signal - it is emitted
for every keypress the programs' windows receive, and is what will be
used for the CTK_TEXTMAP widget as well.

An example of this is the brand new calc.c, which just has been entered
in contiki/apps/calc.c.

Cheers,

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Thursday 10 April 2003 10:53, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 21:48, Groepaz wrote:
> > > Ok... that might sound a bit complicated, but hopefully it will become
> > > clearer when actually trying it out. As always, comments are welcome!
> >
> > not that it would be related..but... is that text-widget we talked about
> > implemented yet? :O)
>
> No, it is still on my todo-list :-) But, in the meantime, it is possible
> to get *almost* the same functionality by using a regular CTK_LABEL. The
> only difference is that it isn't possible to receive cursor key presses,
> return/enter key presses, the menu key (usually F1), or the window
> switching key (usually F3). The interface is the same as it will be once
> the CTK_TEXTMAP widget is implemented.
>
> To use this, listen to the ctk_signal_keypress signal - it is emitted
> for every keypress the programs' windows receive, and is what will be
> used for the CTK_TEXTMAP widget as well.
>
> An example of this is the brand new calc.c, which just has been entered
> in contiki/apps/calc.c.

well...i am mostly waiting for the "real" console-style output feature....ie 
scrolling and everything that goes with it (i wanted to implement sth like a 
command-shell, remember?) .... if i would implement all this "for testing" 
and use the label-widget, i had almost duplicated the work of implementing 
that text-widget :) and since you know the contiki interna better than me, i 
rather wait for you to do it so i dont waste time on coding sth redundant :)

gpz

Hi!

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 21:49, Groepaz wrote:
> well...i am mostly waiting for the "real" console-style output feature....ie 
> scrolling and everything that goes with it (i wanted to implement sth like a 
> command-shell, remember?) .... if i would implement all this "for testing" 
> and use the label-widget, i had almost duplicated the work of implementing 
> that text-widget :) and since you know the contiki interna better than me, i 
> rather wait for you to do it so i dont waste time on coding sth redundant :)

Actually, the CTK_TEXTMAP widget won't be any different from the
CTK_LABEL widget, other than the fact that it will be able to listen for
keypresses. I.e., no scrolling or other stuff - that will have to you be
implemented by the application programmer (that's you ;-).

Cheers,

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Friday 11 April 2003 00:37, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 21:49, Groepaz wrote:
> > well...i am mostly waiting for the "real" console-style output
> > feature....ie scrolling and everything that goes with it (i wanted to
> > implement sth like a command-shell, remember?) .... if i would implement
> > all this "for testing" and use the label-widget, i had almost duplicated
> > the work of implementing that text-widget :) and since you know the
> > contiki interna better than me, i rather wait for you to do it so i dont
> > waste time on coding sth redundant :)
>
> Actually, the CTK_TEXTMAP widget won't be any different from the
> CTK_LABEL widget, other than the fact that it will be able to listen for
> keypresses. I.e., no scrolling or other stuff - that will have to you be
> implemented by the application programmer (that's you ;-).

oh :=P well... i'll have a look at putting something conio-equivalent on top 
of that widget then :) (porting tetris comes to mind hehehe :=P)

gpz

Hi!

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 00:50, Groepaz wrote:
> > Actually, the CTK_TEXTMAP widget won't be any different from the
> > CTK_LABEL widget, other than the fact that it will be able to listen for
> > keypresses. I.e., no scrolling or other stuff - that will have to you be
> > implemented by the application programmer (that's you ;-).
> 
> oh :=P well... i'll have a look at putting something conio-equivalent on top 
> of that widget then :) (porting tetris comes to mind hehehe :=P)

Ahhh, yes your Tetris would be nice :-) I guess you can use the
lib/libconio.c and simply implement a ctk_arch_draw_char() function in
the application, for starters. As long as the application is compiled
outside of the base Contiki system, there should be no problems with
this.

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Friday 11 April 2003 22:33, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> Ahhh, yes your Tetris would be nice :-) I guess you can use the
> lib/libconio.c and simply implement a ctk_arch_draw_char() function in
> the application, for starters. As long as the application is compiled
> outside of the base Contiki system, there should be no problems with
> this.

i'll look into that in a week or two (gotta kill my hd today and install new 
system, compile kernel with tap device etc pp....wish me luck :=P) .... the 
plan is to create a "ctkconio.lib" which can be used to port regular 
conio-applications to contiki with minimal effort. (ie, modifying the app to 
have ctk-style handlers should be all that needs to be done).

btw looked into the stuff i sent you? any use for that? :)

gpz

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:50:16 +0200, Groepaz <groepaz@...> wrote:

> (porting tetris comes to mind hehehe :=3DP)

Ah, does this mean we could get internet multiplayer tetris too? ;-)
:-P

Jason

On Saturday 12 April 2003 23:59, Jason Robertson wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:50:16 +0200, Groepaz <groepaz@...> wrote:
> > (porting tetris comes to mind hehehe :=P)
>
> Ah, does this mean we could get internet multiplayer tetris too? ;-)

hehe :=P maybe :=)

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 15:46, Groepaz wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2003 22:33, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> > Ahhh, yes your Tetris would be nice :-) I guess you can use the
> > lib/libconio.c and simply implement a ctk_arch_draw_char() function in
> > the application, for starters. As long as the application is compiled
> > outside of the base Contiki system, there should be no problems with
> > this.
> 
> i'll look into that in a week or two (gotta kill my hd today and install new 
> system, compile kernel with tap device etc pp....wish me luck :=P)

Good luck! :-)

>  .... the 
> plan is to create a "ctkconio.lib" which can be used to port regular 
> conio-applications to contiki with minimal effort. (ie, modifying the app to 
> have ctk-style handlers should be all that needs to be done).

That sounds like a great idea! 

> btw looked into the stuff i sent you? any use for that? :)

I have been messing around with it, but haven't been able to get it
working (there seems to be a few .inc files missing - it complains about
a missing zeropage.inc, but it might just be me who haven't been able to
fix the include paths :-) I have entered it into the CVS (the
contiki-nes module), so if you have time after the easter it would be
great if you cool check it out.

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 23:59, Jason Robertson wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:50:16 +0200, Groepaz <groepaz@...> wrote:
> 
> > (porting tetris comes to mind hehehe :=P)
> 
> Ah, does this mean we could get internet multiplayer tetris too? ;-)
> :-P

That's a really good idea, actually! Perhaps there are a few other
networked games that could be ported to Contiki as well? Minesweeper?

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 22:47, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> I have been messing around with it, but haven't been able to get it
> working (there seems to be a few .inc files missing - it complains about
> a missing zeropage.inc, but it might just be me who haven't been able to
> fix the include paths :-) I have entered it into the CVS (the
> contiki-nes module), so if you have time after the easter it would be
> great if you cool check it out.

zeropage.inc? uhm :=) have to check that :o)

however, i will definetly check... i have also set up my gba/gp32 deving stuff 
now and have conio working with tetris so i can probably also compile contiki 
with that now :o)

gpz

Hi!

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 01:09, Groepaz wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 22:47, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> > I have been messing around with it, but haven't been able to get it
> > working (there seems to be a few .inc files missing - it complains about
> > a missing zeropage.inc, but it might just be me who haven't been able to
> > fix the include paths :-) I have entered it into the CVS (the
> > contiki-nes module), so if you have time after the easter it would be
> > great if you cool check it out.
> 
> zeropage.inc? uhm :=) have to check that :o)

Great! 

> however, i will definetly check... i have also set up my gba/gp32 deving stuff 
> now and have conio working with tetris so i can probably also compile contiki 
> with that now :o)

Cool! I noticed that there were some gp32 and gba stuff in the package
you sent me, but I didn't check it out any further as I was mostly going
for the nes stuff. I couldn't get the gbc stuff to compiler either, by
the way :-/

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels <adam@...>
http://www.sics.se/~adam/

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 08:52, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> Cool! I noticed that there were some gp32 and gba stuff in the package
> you sent me, but I didn't check it out any further as I was mostly going
> for the nes stuff. I couldn't get the gbc stuff to compiler either, by
> the way :-/

the gba/gp32 stuff in the package i sent you is useless (just startupcode that 
is) .... however, the gb(c) stuff should compile (although not really work 
:=P)...

oh well... i'll look into the cvs snapshot after easter and then send you a 
simelar package with that again (probably including the full gba and gp32 
conio, its working great so far :=))

gpz