I got quite many complaints about gpsp crashing with Sony Ericsson Satio and Vivaz. I didn’t have any clue what’s wrong with gpsp, until I found this thread in the SE Support forums. http://developer.sonyericsson.com/community/thread/50103 It turns out that the Sony Ericsson Satio and Vivaz seems to have similar issues with the Blit as Samsung i8910 [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Symbian Development category.
Fixing the blit for Samsung i8910
I got lot’s of complaints about the broken blit in gpsp4Symbian with Samsung i8910. The root cause for this problem is that the following code doesn’t set the ScreenBuffer in samsung into Landscape orientation, while it does work just fine on Nokia’s phones. I heard that there are some other Qt applications ( at least [...]
Memory Mapping solution for Dynamic Recompilation in Symbian OS
The gpsp was my first emulator port with dynamic recompilation. The problem in memory mapping and dynarec is that local data in Symbian OS is too far away from the user area, where we the new memory chunk for the dynamic area was created. My first solution was the memory trampoline pattern. However I got [...]
Implementing AntSnes with Qt part 6: Final touch, using stylesheets
The Qt’s default style tries to look as much your original S60 theme as possible. The big problem is that each phone can have very different theme, and then your application might look really bad. The good news is that you can write your own style, and use it in your own application. Here’s a [...]
What’s up with the releases
This blog has been pretty quiet lately, and maybe you’re wondering why there has been no releases lateley :) Well, I have been snowboarding the last month, so I really haven’t made any progress. I still have a lot of photo’s and videos to edit, which will keep me away from my emulator projects for a [...]
