[Qt] Draft FreePascal Maemo binding

[Kjow]

Teorically, Maemo 5 pr1.2 and MeeGo are fully compatible... anyway
both are arm-linux-qt (I read that meego will start with qt 4.6.2, as
Maemo)

Initially QT libs weren't planned for Maemo, Nokia changed plans with
MeeGo (merging Harmattan/Maemo 6).

2010/6/10 ik <idokan at gmail.com>:
> Will it also work on MeeGo ?
>
> Ido
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 22:59, Den Jean <Den.Jean at telenet.be> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I created a Qt binding for the Maemo 5 Qt 4.6.2 (N900 PR 1.2)
>>
>> * http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/maemo5_bin-qt4pas-
>> V2.2RC_Qt4.6.2.tar.gz
>> *
>> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/splitbuild-maemo5_qt4pas-
>> V2.2RC_Qt4.6.2.tar.gz
>> * http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/maemo5_demos-
>> V2.2RC_Qt4.6.2.tar.gz
>>
>> This binding can already be used to create Free Pascal
>> Qt4 Maemo5 applications. Screenshot of small included demo:
>> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/maemo_qt4.png
>>
>> However Lazarus LCL/Qt needs some changes to allow for
>> Lazarus LCL/Qt Maemo applications
>>
>> The following screenshot shows a LCL/Qt Maemo sample.
>> When the application is run with another style (./project1 -style plastik)
>> the application looks identical to the designer representation.
>> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/maemo_lcl_qt4.png
>>
>> Patch for Lazarus:
>> http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/maemo.diff.txt.tar.gz
>>
>> The patch accommodates for the following:
>>
>> * Qt on N900 Maemo5 is compiled w/o support for:
>>  - printing
>>  - trayicon
>>
>> * Qt on N900 Maemo is compiled w/o deprecated functions.
>>   The following list shows the deprecated functions used by
>>   LCL/Qt and their new counterpart.
>>  - QRegion_numRects -> QRegion_rectCount
>>  - QImage_numBytes -> QImage_byteCount
>>  - QPaintDevice_numColors -> QPaintDevice_colorCount
>>
>> I acknowledge that the patch can be considered as
>> fairly intrusive, if you know a better way, be my guest.
>>
>> Detailed instructions are not ready yet for this Release Candidate.
>> For the adventurous:
>> - the binding can be compiled in scratchbox. It is just Qt C++ code,
>>  no need for fpc in scratchbox. Nokia has excellent documentation
>>  for the installation of scratchox. After a full installation do a
>>  fakeroot apt-get install libqt4-dev
>> - copy the library to /opt/usr/lib and make links to /usr/lib ("optify").
>> - Strip the library first to shave of some bytes.
>> - compilation can be done on the device (fast enough) or using
>>  fpc cross compilation outside scratchbox. Add a -dMAEMO5 to
>>  ppcarm to enable the maemo specific functions in qt4.pas.
>>
>> kind regards,
>>
>> Den Jean
>>
>>
>>
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