HooRay! iPAQ Squeaking!
Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Wed Apr 17 06:59:00 UTC 2002
I recently discovered that I desperately needed a good PDA to organise
my hectic professional life, and so was forced against my will to buy an
iPAQ. Image my suprise when I found out that my new business tool could
also run Squeak! :)
So far I have downloaded the TinySqueak.image and Yoshiki's WinCE VM.
Here are some preliminary things I noticed:
* I have an iPAQ 3850, and am using the VM without GAPI support
because, as indicated, the other VM crashes
* I haven't had any luck getting the VM to run my standard image (it
just quits without an error message). Is this a memory issue or
something else?
* Haven't yet looked into Genie, been too happy playing around with
full cursive recognition - just like being back in Newtonland, but
clunkier.
* How do I get the menus and halos from my second and third mousebutton?
* Changing the size of windows puts Squeak into some sort of weird state
where I can't stop changing the size, and without Crt-. I end up having
to kill the VM :(
* Is it possible to go "Full screen" under WinCE, or must I put up with
the little bar down the bottom of the screen?
* The speed of the software is suprisingly fast - I was bracing myself
for something much slower!
* Is there any PIM software for Squeak? The ideal software would use
the same datastructure as the existing PDA morph, but be viewable and
editable in 320x240
* Ditto for a class browser
* We need some smaller fonts for menus, browsers etc
* What do other squeakers with iPAQs use them for?
This is Fun with a capital F!
:)
Russell
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Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
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