Re: Lua on Maemo (Nokia N810 and friends)

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

What about a (possibly stripped down) version of Wolfgang's lua-gtk?

steve d.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:01 PM, noel frankinet
<noel.frankinet@skynet.be> wrote:
> Gerhard Sittig a écrit :
>>
>> I'm considering to get me a Nokia N810 and noticed that Lua is not (yet)
>> available for that device (in prepackaged or standalone form, that is).
>> The device runs OS 2008, aka Maemo 4.0, a Linux based system with a GTK
>> based UI.  The hardware platform is an XScale processor with quite a lot
>> of RAM (some hundred megabytes) and Flash mass storage (several
>> gigabytes).  It has WLAN b/g, BT, USB (no IR?), and builtin GPS.  The
>> display is rather huge (800x480 in 4.1") and there's a touch screen as
>> well as a real keyboard.  In fact it's quite a heavy yet mobile
>> computing machine, the kind of what we had on our desk a few years ago.
>>
>> Lua seems to not be bundled with the OS.  The maemo.org download area
>> does have Python and Ruby, but not Lua.  A search on luaforge.net for
>> "maemo", "gtk", "hildon" (the UI framework), "nokia" or "nit" (Nokia
>> coined the "Nokia Internet Tablet" term) doesn't reveal related projects
>> ("nokia" hits for a bit manipulation library since that one supports one
>> of Nokia's formats, it seems).
>>
>> I understand that "porting" the standalone interpreter and the runtime
>> library is a no-brainer, given that we're on a regular Linux system with
>> quite a lot of default stuff available (yes, the gadget has a terminal
>> to reveal the full power of a UNIX workstation to those who want it).
>>
>> The actual work is in creating bindings to the Maemo / Hildon / GTK
>> framework and the PDA's features (contacts etc databases, peripherals,
>> communication, UI stuff).  This then makes the difference between "I can
>> run computational stuff, manipulating files or outputting to the screen"
>> and "I can control the gadget with Lua, interacting with the user".
>>
>> I've searched the ML back to 2006, but apart from some occasional
>> mentions by Asko, Ralph, Andre and Norman about "would be nice to have"
>> I've not seen any "more involved" statements.  Did I miss some already
>> existing project, maybe hosted on other OSS sites?  Or should we (do we
>> want to?) start another LuaForge project?  Is it actually a NIT&Lua
>> specific task or would it be more generic and should be a maemo.org
>> project?
>>
>> Opinions, comments, suggestions, references to existing work?
>>
>>
>> virtually yours
>> Gerhard Sittig
>>
>
> Hello Gerhard,
>
> I have done a proprietary binding to windows (button list view, etc). I'm
> ready to help for a GTK binding if needed.
> Noël
>