I have to develop an application for Nokia Asha 501. I am using Nokia SDK 1.1 and the library S40-asha2013 from the ${SDK_HOME}/plugins/lwuit/lib.
I am trying to figure it out the UIID stuff from all the examples I am studying, but I couldn't find a source that would list all the UIID values for the components. For example I could change the background color of a normal TextField only if I set the UIID to "Label"
Ex:
textField.setUIID("Label");
Or to make for example a green button you have to set the UIID like this:
saveBtn.setUIID("ButtonGreen");
Which let's be honest do not makes any sense. So my question is does anyway know where I can find some documentation or listing related to this "mysterious" UIID. Or at least does anyone know where or if I can find the sources to Nokia Asha Lwuit because I only found this https://java.net/projects/lwuit/sources/svn/show but doesn't seem to be the same library (the version for my lwuit is 1.1.2).
With source code available I could look myself in the code and check for all UIID's.
Edit:
As a piece of advice if you want to really ease your life and understand how style and look is handled in LWUIT the resource editor tool is very valuable. Only after I opened the Nokia Asha default resource in Resource Editor I actually understood what happens there and what is the thing with UIID's.
I had also the experience that some styles seem to be "hardcoded", like the background of a text field. I had a suprising effect with an alert. When I set styles in resource editor they get ignored.
I also did not found the latest Nokia sources.
You get a list of all used UUIDs when you open the lwuit-jar file with a zip program, for example 7.zip, andd extract the file asha2013_themes. You can then open this file with the resource editor.
You can try to ask in the Nokia developer forum:
http://developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/forumdisplay.php/324-Mobile-Java-UI-and-User-Experience
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I've read the documentation and I can't figure out how to override the help system framework that eclipse generates (eg. Search Scope All Topics etc). It shows as a grey boring style, and the plugins seem to build it automatically. I can add css to the toc.xml which affects my pages, but not the frame that goes around it. Is there a guide for this?
The modernization of the help system which is still based on HTML frames and which is not responsive has not yet been implemented (see Eclipse bug 501718). Eclipse is open source and help is welcome. ;-)
However, it is possible to create your own responsive HTML 5 page with an iFrame for the content and which loads TOC elements, search results, etc. via JavaScript from the Eclipse help system as it is. In this way, I realized a search field with search suggestions and a preview (see my blog post: Like to pimp your help, eh?).
I am doing an app in which I require a business card reader I googled alot but BBY is the only solution which I was able to find out. Can anybody help me out with some opensource library which can be tweaked or used directly as a business card reader.
Please enlighten me on this.
you can look into the Tesseract open source engine... its pretty good for image processing.. i mean it will extract the text out of the image but then you will have to process it to extract name ,phone numbers and other details.
this guy has explained how to use it in iOS .. http://tinsuke.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/how-to-compile-and-use-tesseract-3-01-on-ios-sdk-5/
We started an open source project to build a Javascript library (based on the OCR engine tesseract.js for the OCR part) that exctract the relevant data from a business card based on heuristic criteria.
The library (BCR Library, available on github) is usable in any html project (included mobile cordova, phone gap or ionic projects) just including it via script tag.
The library doesn't have any external api call and fully works offline.
I think that you should give a try to Covve Bussiness Card Scan API. The quality of the result is great in various languages. You can check a comparison analysis of similar services here.
[Disclosure] I'm part of the team developing the service.
I have been fighting a losing battle against loading fonts from an embedded file for use with DirectWrite. I am writing a simple puzzle game that has a C#/XAML interface but also uses SurfaceImageSource to add some DirectX content.
I have written a WinRT component that handles all of the DirectX code, and it works quite nicely. Some of my DirectX content is text drawn using the DirectWrite API. I can draw all the text I like so long as I'm loading an installed font from the system using IDWriteFactory::GetSystemFontCollection(), etc. But, I cannot seem to find a way to load a custom font from an embedded file.
From what I can tell Metro apps are not allowed to load files from the filesystem in the same way as a traditional app. So, the IDWriteFactory::CreateFontFileReference() method that takes a normal file path is worthless to me, right? I need to load my file from an ms-appx URL.
So, I wrote a custom font loader in my WinRT component that implements the IDWriteFontCollectionLoader interface (which is a ton of work if you've never done it before btw) that loads the font from an ms-appx URL using the new StorageFile API. Now, I can load my IDWriteFontFile and I can get a IDWriteFontFace, but if I try to call any of the truly useful methods on the font face it returns E_UNEXPECTED. I can get the number of glyphs and the glyph indices, but if I try to call something like GetGlyphRunOutline() or GetDesignGlyphMetrics(), it fails with E_UNEXPECTED. Using the same drawing code that generates an ID2D1PathGeometry using GetGlyphRunOutline() works great as long as I install the font file and get the IDWriteFontFace through the series of calls starting with IDWriteFactory::GetSystemFontCollection(). I am working with a normal true type font.
So, how do I load a custom font from an embedded file into DirectWrite in a Metro app? I'm probably just missing something easy, because I am certain that other people will want to be able to load custom fonts in this way.
I have a sample project (or could prepare one easily) for anyone who can help me identify my problem.
I have loaded the two IDWriteFontFace objects side by side, and I tried to figure out what is different between the one that works and the one that breaks. What I need to see in order to find out why it is failing is opaque to me hidden behind inside the IDWriteFontFace interface. HELP PLEASE!
Question also posted here: Building Metro style games with DirectX Forum
Well, the answer is... don't write a IDWriteFontCollectionLoader! You can use IDWriteFactory::CreateFontFileReference() with the StorageFile API. I was under the impression from all of the Microsoft Conference talks I had attended that in Metro you would be unable to access the native file system directly; the way forward would be to use the StorageFile API which references resources, etc. using ms-appx URLs. I understood that this was done for concurrency and to allow the OS to insulate itself from Metro apps that would be downloaded from the store by creating a file system sandbox. I think that is accurate. But, I feel like I was led to believe that we would never be able to get native file system paths. That is NOT true. IStorageFile provides a way. Just use IStorageFile.Path. I never looked at it because I just assumed the Path property would hold the ms-appx URL that I used to create the object. Microsoft probably provided this for exactly the purpose in my problem above: calling legacy COM interfaces that require a native path.
I haven't done any testing to determine whether the WinRT framework actually sandboxes you if you try to access a native file system path outside your own app package. I'm betting that it does...
I have an app for a text editor developed by OMNI Group. I need to integrate this text editor with one of my other apps. I have no idea as to how should I do it. Can someone provide me any directions as to how should I begin with it. I googled a lot but could not find much help. Thanks and regards.
1: Assuming that your text editor is an online editor living in a browser, simply implement a UIWebView and it should just work. For example, an editable <textarea> is rendered without problems in a UIWebView.
If you need other special features you have implemented with javascript and the like you need to test if they work in the UIWebView.
2: If, however, the text editor is already working in another iOS app, simply copy the classes that you are using to implement the editor into your new project and use them in an equivalent way, tweaking where necessary. If you followed the programming principle of incapsulation this should be a breeze.
I looking for either an open source (or otherwise) php script/library/code that will provide me with a similar email composer that Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor have.
I've played around with lots of wysiwyg editors (eg: tinymce, ckeditor) but, they don't work very well for allowing users to compose emails.
Mosaico Editor is the first open source email template builder of this kind (AFAIK).
You can find a free to use deployment (working also as live demo) at http://mosaico.io and you can get sources at https://github.com/voidlabs/mosaico
I choose blocks from a set defined by the "master template", then you fill you contents and change their styles in a WYSIWYG style. If you're on a large window you can also have live preview for the mobile version.
The master template defines what are the blocks, what you can edit and what you can style and it contains any html trick to make it compatible with most clients: this means you can change the editor behaviour a lot by simply writing a new master template.
It is 99% javascript (IE10+, and any other modern browser) and depends on server-side functions only to do "final inlining" and "image upload/resizing"
Next generation tool for building templates without coding
Grapejs official site
GrapesJS is an open-source, multi-purpose, Web Builder Framework which combines different tools and features with the goal to help you (or users of your application) to build HTML templates without any knowledge of coding. It's a perfect solution to replace the common WYSIWYG editors, which are good for content editing but inappropriate for creating HTML structures. You can see it in action with the official demos, but using its API you're able to build your own editors.
I'm in the process of building one but as a designer it is a work in progress! I'd suggest looking at PHP template engines. They have a similar functionality. Most however will use php variables inside the html page instead of tags.
Another oprion is to check out Perch it is officially a CMS, but is really lightweight and might get the job done for you.
Hope that helps even though it is a year after you posted the question...
EDIT: Actually just stumbled across this thread which links to the new CKEditor - looks pretty cool.