Category: Mobile Computing

OPL Series 60 Runtime: Major Update

Posted on December 5, 2003 by Ewan Spence

After many a long night testing the runtime, and putting a whole bundle of documents in place on the web, OPL for Series 60 has been released. Version 0.30 adds menu support. 7.0s support, FEP interaction (finally!) and a lot of under the hood changes. The documentation site is now up and running (visit the OPL Wiki), and you’ll all want to look at the Getting Started page. And browse the rest of the site of course! The next two major steps before a 1.0 (dialogs and asynchronus events) are up next. Rick reckons that mid-March for a release candidate

The LOAF Project

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Ewan Spence

Now this is something I can get my teeth into. Matt Croydon’s LOAF Project is pretty wide ranging. I don’t see it not making a splash in the next few months and becoming well known around the world. Here’s my bit… a LOAF implementation in OPL, using the LOAF.opx C++ extension.

America! America! Are You Ready For Me!!!

Posted on November 10, 2003 by Ewan Spence

This arrived in my email box – just like it did for Russ a few weeks ago… Dear Ewan, Congratulations on your talk being accepted for the Emerging Technology Conference in February. I have added the talk to the web site, and it will show up there shortly. O’Reilly Speaker Manager. More details on the talk (just to show that this is really happening) can be found here. Now to work out how to afford all this. OPL is a Free Open Source Project, so there’s no company funds to pay for it. It may be that I need to

My “OPL Wiki” Entry

Posted on November 6, 2003 by Ewan Spence

Rafe has set up an OPL Wiki (an editable by everyone type of website) that is going to be used as the central resource for OPL Documentation. One page is a ‘personal page‘ about me, and I thought what I wrote there should be posted here as well.

Nice Seminars

Posted on November 4, 2003 by Ewan Spence

Here’s part three of the trip to Nice. It’s reprinted from Your Symbian, where I write a regular column and feature articles. Well worth a read to keep up to date with the Symbian World. Anyway, this part is the seminars about Series 60.

It’s All Gone a Bit Quiet?

Posted on October 22, 2003 by Ewan Spence

No, not really, just not been posting here, or on the boards. A few nice things are coming to the boil in the background. OPL first, and it finnally looks like there is a clear path forward. It all started with this rant from Russ Beattie on his Blog – credit him for kicking of the new thoughts on OPL I’ll be posting in the next day or so. OPL’s not dead, it might even have menu’s running in the private distro I’m testing right now. I’m also planning (with Rafe and Jordan) to attend the Nokia Series 60 Awards