- in S60 1.2 (at least in 3650 Nokia 3650 v3.11) setjmp/longjmp is
fragile (see Symbian FAQ-0929), intensive debugging and fix needed
-- in S60 2.6 (at least in Nokia 6630 v4.03.11) launching scripts via
- FExplorer does not open up the console
-- in the SDK the build creates DLLs in the system area
- (e.g. epoc32\release\thumb\urel\io.dll), this is dangerous. Prefix them?
- (needs changes in xsbuild and DynaLoader/XSLoader)
=head2 Unicode
=head2 Build
- make xsbuild.pl much more robust (for building external extensions)
+ (see symbian\ext\README and symbian\ext\Moped\Msg\README)
+- now the .mmp functions both as input and as output - bad
- MakeMaker? Pure PM, PM + XS?
- currently the PerlApp UID is in both config.pl (hardwired) and
in makesis.pl (computed), this is quite error prone
-- Enable building also under Cygwin?
+- Enable building also under Cygwin? (could be really hard,
+ the Symbian SDKs pretty much assume cmd.exe)
=head1 PACKAGING
=head1 PerlApp
- In "Run" see how one could show also the file extensions.
-- when autostarting also offer to display the file (via Notes?)
- instead of installing/running it?
-- Allow passing command line options to scripts being run?
-- Add "OneLiner" menu item? (-e, -M) (requires a UI form)
-- Terminate/Pause menu entries?
+- How to allow passing command line options to scripts being run?
+- Terminate/Pause menu entries (to be used while the script is running)?
- review for proper Symbian coding practices
-=head1 CORE LIBRARIES
+=head2 All UIs
-- Fix Devel::PPPort (worth it?) (Note that there is D::PPP 3.x out by now)
-- Fix Encode to not to have writeable data: seems to be tricky indeed
- because of copious global non-const data.
-- Verify that the modified File::Spec::Win32 does work in Symbian.
- (File::Spec::Epoc does not seem to be relevant?)
-- What does Cwd really do since the concept of cwd is a bit fuzzy in Symbian.
-- What should Sys::Hostname return? GPRS? BT? WLAN?
-- ByteLoader problem: byterun.c does not see VERSION and XS_VERSION.
-- POSIX problem: STDLIB POSIX is not that POSIX.
+- Make it possible to call UI elements (or any other Symbianic
+ asynchronous services) from Perl.
-=head1 REGRESSION SUITE
+ There is now a sample of enabling calling CPerlUi::TextQueryDialogL()
+ from Perl as PerlApp::TextQuery(), see symbian_utils.c. This, however,
+ does not work: calling the dialog code blocks so that the screen is not
+ redrawn at all. Perl should do both: "yield" so that the GUI framework
+ can redraw, but in the meanwhile Perl should wait for the completion
+ (OK or Cancel) of the dialog, but Perl must not exit the current PL_op.
+ Welcome to the wonderful world of cooperative multitasking. The right
+ solution surely involves Active Objects. The problem may require having
+ a different Perl op dispatch loop than the standard and debug ones in
+ run.c and dump.c.
-- how to run the standard test suite on a Symbian device?
+- menu/toolbar support
+- selection lists (single cf multi cf radio)
+- on/off (special case of two-item radio selection list)
+- forms (multicontrols)
+- "secret editor" (special case of text query)
+
+=head2 Series 60
+
+- in S60 2.6 (at least in Nokia 6630 v4.03.11) launching scripts via
+ FExplorer does not open up the console
+
+=head2 Series 80
+
+- On exit "PerlApp" gets Symbian USER Panic 44: "This panic is raised
+ by the Free() and FreeZ() member functions of an RHeap. It is caused
+ when the cell being freed overlaps the next cell on the free list
+ (i.e. the first cell on the free list with an address higher than the
+ one being freed)." Reason unknown.
+- Hotkey Newline so that it functions as 'OK' in dialogs
+
+=head2 UIQ
+
+- UIQ 3.0? UIQ 2.0? (now only tried in UIQ 2.1)
+- UIQ, at least UIQ 2.1, does not have "file select dialogs" since
+ "files" are supposed to be hidden from the user. Therefore, no
+ "Run" in PerlApp. (For similar stylistic reasons there is no "Exit".)
+- Long notes (e.g. the EPerlAppCommandAbout) are shown badly truncated.
=head1 CPAN LIBRARIES
all of it, even after pm-stripping):
- libnet
- Bundle::CPAN
- - Archive::Tar
+ - Archive::Tar (now included in 5.9.x)
- Term::ReadKey (useless?)
- Term::ReadLine (useless?)
- Bundle::LWP
- DBD::SQLite? (sqlite?)
- SOAP? XML-RPC?
+=head1 CORE LIBRARIES
+
+- Fix Devel::PPPort (worth it?) (Note that there is D::PPP 3.x out by now)
+- Fix Encode to not to have writeable data: seems to be tricky indeed
+ because of copious global non-const data.
+- Verify that the modified File::Spec::Win32 does work in Symbian.
+ (File::Spec::Epoc does not seem to be relevant?)
+- What does Cwd really do since the concept of cwd is a bit fuzzy in Symbian.
+- What should Sys::Hostname return? GPRS? BT? WLAN?
+- ByteLoader problem: byterun.c does not see VERSION and XS_VERSION.
+- POSIX problem: STDLIB POSIX is not that POSIX.
+
+=head1 REGRESSION SUITE
+
+- how to run the standard test suite on a Symbian device?
+
=head1 FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
-- Remote console (Bluetooth/IR)
-- S60 GUI support
-- S60 PDA support
-- Phone APIs
-- S80
-- UIQ
+- GUI support (problematic that the MVC model enforces an "application")
+ (name suggestion: Moped::Gui)
+ (see above for the need of sorting out the Active Objectedness)
+- Messaging support (sms:, mms:, mailto:, irdaobex:, btobex:,
+ cell location, WLAN)
+ (name suggestion: Moped::Msg)
+- PDA support (address book)
+ (name suggestion: Moped::PDA)
+- Device support (memory, camera)
+ (name suggestion: Moped::Dev::Memory, Moped::Dev::Drives, Moped::Dev::Camera)
+- Phone APIs (e.g. how to catch an incoming call: BIO messaging)
+- Remote console (Bluetooth/IR/USB?)
+
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