As a inspitation for the first useful thread in this new forum, how about people posting any OPL resources they know of. I.e. sites with source code, tutorials, etc. Should help some more newbies get started.
OPL resources....
The obvious one is the ER5 OPL manual. Chapter 15 (I think) is the important one, giving the whole command set broken down into easy to read chunks and explanations. 95% of ER6 commands match those in ER5.
Right here we have a few beginners tutorials for OPL for those who want to get going before Ewan's first tutorial is published (I can tell you are chomping at the bit).....
An OPL tutorial (for the Psion Series 5MX/7) devices though the essentials are the same on the 92xx.
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/channels/pda/training/epocopl1.html
Another tutoral from www.osarisnet.de quite a helpful beginners one, downside is it's only available for those of us who can read German.
http://www.netmannetwork.net/osarisnet/workshop/opl.php
Enjoy them 😊
Here are some tutorials that were meant to be for ER5, but should work as well for ER6:
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/progindex.htm
Just wanted to let you all know that there is a scrollbar OPM available free from BinaryFish. This allows you to include scrollbars in your app/game with just a few lines of code. Crossword 9200 and Sokoboxx both uses the scrollbar OPM 😃
FatCatz
And for those that don't know what on OPM is, it's a lot of Procedures pakcaged up in a seperate library that you can call with one line. Very useful, but not somethign that really took off like OPX's did.
(OPX being the same idea, but with C++ snippets getting called by OPL code).
ANyway, Scrollbar should be really usefull if peopel are planning stuff on a grid (say a big version of Scrabble?) that is larger than the available screen. Well worth checking out.
using Word or Acrobatreader?