Text editor widget
Text editor widget
Anyone know of a good text editor widget? it would be very helpful, also I think I remember reading on the archos site that we can make our own widgets, how would I do that and what language would I use?
Re: Text editor widget
Hi,
I plan to have a look at widget programming this weekend (probably tomorrow as I need to get a new external drive today as I have totally filled my 605 40gb). I have had a look around and found the opera widget developers pages. they are here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/widgets/
they seem to be chromeless (ie no title area or border like a windows app) apps written in basic web techinologies (css, html, javascript and maybe AJAX). I have also looked at some of their libraries and it seems they have some interesting stuff like File I/O libraries so building a basic widget to work like Windows Notepad shiould be possible. I guess I will know more by monday lol
One of the ones I want to look into is a text editor that can save files to the archos so they can be transfered to a PC at a later date.
Pev
I plan to have a look at widget programming this weekend (probably tomorrow as I need to get a new external drive today as I have totally filled my 605 40gb). I have had a look around and found the opera widget developers pages. they are here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/widgets/
they seem to be chromeless (ie no title area or border like a windows app) apps written in basic web techinologies (css, html, javascript and maybe AJAX). I have also looked at some of their libraries and it seems they have some interesting stuff like File I/O libraries so building a basic widget to work like Windows Notepad shiould be possible. I guess I will know more by monday lol
One of the ones I want to look into is a text editor that can save files to the archos so they can be transfered to a PC at a later date.
Pev
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Don't get your hopes up File I/O libraries don't work on the archos. Archos still uses the opera 9 for devices and the libraries are available since the 9.5 opera version. I also don't know for sure if they also implemented this in the new opera 9.5 SDK for devices, but I think so. So unless archos updates the browser with this new SDK (I very much doubt it knowing Archos 
) there is no possibility to make a simple texteditor.
The closest I got was with My Gmail addressbook where you can send your notes to your G-mail account look here http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=14292
Maurice
) there is no possibility to make a simple texteditor. The closest I got was with My Gmail addressbook where you can send your notes to your G-mail account look here http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=14292
Maurice
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Thanks
What a bummer I had hi hopes for the File i/o library.
Pev
What a bummer I had hi hopes for the File i/o library.
Pev
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damn I was really hoping for a text editor, I mean we got a PDF viewer adding a text editor would be simple, if archos would get are the lazy asses and make some updates. If archos updated the 605 half as often as Sony updates my PSP I would be pretty damn happy.
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I don't think there will be anymore major updates for the 605 now that the 5 is coming out. They just don't have an army of developers available like Sony does, so they will have to choose between the 605 and the 5 and we all know what the choice will be.make some updates
Some couple of months back nz from archos staff showed some interest on this forum and tried to help to get some bugs fixed, but I think he is called back home to france to focus on the archos 5. There isn't a word of him since months here.
I thought Archos had finally turned onto the right road by showing some more interest here, but sadly I was mistaken.
Maurice
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The pessimist in me says you're right and they're going to completely focus on the 5 and 7. The optimist in me hopes that the 5 and 7 will become quite popular, making archos a lot more money which they can hire more developers, and since the gen 5 wifi's and the archos 5 & 7's are supposed to sell along side each other then that would make more developers for the gen 5's as well. But one can only hope.
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well, as everyone said there is no possibility to save a txt-file directly to the archos, but i am working on a program in flash which sends your text to a php script which will create a txt-file for you to download.
You need to be online to create the file, but you can also save your text to the browser's cache, so you can write your text offline and only need to go online for a minute to create and download the txt-file.
The app very alpha and currently only available for a "closed alpha test" which means i will not post a download link here as it contains too many bugs and is pretty unstable, but if you meet me in the chat you can ask for it and maybe i will give you the link...
You need to be online to create the file, but you can also save your text to the browser's cache, so you can write your text offline and only need to go online for a minute to create and download the txt-file.
The app very alpha and currently only available for a "closed alpha test" which means i will not post a download link here as it contains too many bugs and is pretty unstable, but if you meet me in the chat you can ask for it and maybe i will give you the link...
