Forum Nokia has announced an update to the plug-in that enables WRT widget development in Aptana Studio and added new plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Visual Studio. WRT widgets are clearly seen by Nokia as a mechanism to accelerate the availability of add-on features for S60 devices. Recent news, such as the availability of a Facebook widget, suggests it may be a good strategy.
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I'll knock up an ebook reader, I was a programmer in the games industry for 15 years till 1999. But having just closed my computer shop (bloody recession) I've decided to get back into programming to try and make some extra cash. I only started again last week so I'm still a bit rusty, but I needed a project to start with and an e-book reader sounds like a good way to get back into it.
I'll start it on Monday and post any news as soon as i have a working beta. I'll spend a few days this week obtaining all the information on file formats and stuff I'll need.
My understanding is that Carbide.vs was removed because of the ever changing Visual Studio debug format (which is not publicly documented).
-- Carbide.vs used the normal Carbide x86 compiler (developed by Nokia).
-- For Carbide.vs the compiler had to be able to output debug in Visual Studio's format.
-- The VS debug format is not defined publicly; i.e. updating the compiler was tricky.
-- Visual Studio kept changing which made it more difficult and expensive.
-- There was a major change in the VS after 2007 (or maybe it was 2007).
At the same time the Red5Labs guys provided a pretty cool product to enable .NET development for Symbian devices totally within Visual Studio.
Obviously javascript (et al) don't suffer from this problem.
Would seem a bit silly if anyone got upset about the Nokia guys providing VS support. If it really annoys you - just don't use it!
just realised i posted my other post in completely wrong section, silly me. anyways i'll post news in the forums next time
cheers, martin barlow
Hi Folks,
Please correct me here if im wrong, ... So S60 Web Runtime was introduced in S60 3rd, Feature Pack 2, but can a software update make it available for S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 devices ??
I've an E51, and thinking about upgrading the firmware if, (and a big if) its available after the upgrade. I've an idea for to developer a WRT app, and im hoping someone can help me find out if a firmware upgrade for my Nokia E51 will enable WRT on my device.
Many thanks,
Darren.
Darren.
WRT has be made available for sone S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 devices. It looks to me as though the E51 does not have WRT - Forum Nokia provides a WRT filter on their device page that lists out the devices with WRT support at http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/matrix_webruntime_1.html. Or simply look up the device and check the Browser and Flash section for Web Runtime.
You can always test in one of the emulators in the SDKs or use the RDA service to run anything you develop on a device - which I know might not quite be the same as running it on your own device.
Thanks for the additionnal info Antony007 - the desision was almost certainly a commercial one - supporting VS developers did not offer the return that could be achieved by investing in Carbide.c++ or Qt - but Nokia clearly could not say that (at least not so bluntly) nor could it blame MS. Something of a rock and a hard place senario.
Antony007 wrote:Would seem a bit silly if anyone got upset about the Nokia guys providing VS support. If it really annoys you - just don't use it!
Both have already happened.