Re: Adventures in TeXas

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:59 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, April 9, 2013 11:45 am, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:16 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Huh.  So it *does* run on the TX.
>>
>> I'll have to give it another shot.  Not sure which version I have - it
>> was one Dmitry Grindberg originally ripped out of a Clie.  I looked at an
>> assortment of browsers on the Zodiac, including the one Tapwave bundled,
>> Opera Mini, Xiino, Novarra Nweb, and Netfront.
>
>> Netfront was the best of the lot, but that wasn't saying much.
>
> yes, and, yes
>
> (I (think?) I've tried a the java based stuff, but, didn't inhale)

Opera Mini worked well enough if you could get a compatible JVM (that
was fun for the Zodiac), but behaved nothing like a normal PalmOS
program.  Someone elsewhere was trying to get Opera Mini 4.4 up on the
TX, but that's only provided as a jar file, and he wanted to know how
to make it a PRC. AFAIK, that chore was done by a tool provided with
IBM's Websphere Micro development environment.  Have fun finding
that...

>>> used to use it occasionally, not anymore
>>
>> What do you use now?
>
> Android phone/tablet.... Atrix/Xoom for net related stuff
>
> Palm for most other stuff


>>> BTW, just transferred 10 years worth of car fuel data from pFuel to
>>> aCar, so might move car records to A soon.
>>
>> The real fun part in migrating to a new device isn't the apps, it's the
>> data.
>
> this was child's play, pFuel outputs text, acar inputs text.
> one of my pre-req for any app I use: does it input/output text ?

Yep.  Alas, not everything I use does.

> if I can help you with any NetFront files, just yell

What must you absolutely have to run it on the TX, aside from NetFront
itself?  I'd be inclined to get your files and reproduce your
environment.

On the Zodiac, IIRC, I needed Dmitry's UDMH to give it enough dynamic
heap, and a Japanese app called CodeDiver to force use of the full
320x480 screen.  Dmirtry offers Maxx as freeware, which he claims will
let any OS5 machine run Netfront and Picel Browser.

CodeDiver runs fine here, and gets used toi make a few other things
use the full screen.

Attempts to set up Netfront with UDMH and triggered hard resets.

I do full backups with NVBackup after major config changes, so hard
resets are a nuisance rather than a disaster.  I may just take another
shot at getting NetFront running, now I know that it *can*.
______
Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519


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