"Frank Shearar" frank@angband.za.org writes:
Is it then not feasible to write a mouse simulator that wraps the direction pad? I've only done a couple hours' work with the Symbian SDK, so I'm pretty much clueless as to its workings, unfortunately.
Yes that's possible. It's the approach I'd take first if I was doing it. There is an 'epoc' port floating around that could perhaps be used as the basis for a Symbian port.
I did some quick experimentation and the base Squeak spource code compiles fine under the Symbian SDK. It's just a matter of implementing the various platform defined functions and hopefully getting it to work in less than 3MB.
Would one then be able to craft a VM that didn't use a mouse? I'm thinking here of being able to write applications in Squeak to run on the phone, much as one writes Java ME apps...
It's certainly possible. I've got Io [1] working on the phone for example which allows me to code in that language. The next release of Io will include my Symbian support hopefully.
[1] http://www.dekorte.com/Software/C/Io/
Chris.