Ewan's got a nice tip over at the OPL Wiki in using the USB Mass Storage Class on the Nokia N-Gage to help speed up PC Based development of OPL Series 60 Programs. Read it here.
Ewan Spence and FreEPOC have released Event Core for Series 60 OPL. This is an application (with source code supplied) that does nothing. But it does show how to use menus, key inputs, react to events, save changes between instances of the program running, and so on. It's a great place to start learning OPL after your first Hello World application. A version for the Nokia Communicator is available from the same page.
The OPL-Dev team behind OPL (the Open Programming Language) for Symbian OS are delighted to announce the availability of version 0.30 of both the Runtime and SDK's for Series 60 devices.
New Features in the 0.30 Release.
A full list of changes can be found in the accompanying documentation, but the major visible changes are as follows.
Menu support on the Series 60 has been one of most hotly awaited additions to the runtime since v0.20. Now that it's here, let's see what we can do on Series 60.
The 0.30 Runtime and SDK is availabel at the Source Forge Project Page.
The OPL Wiki now has a page showing you how to get started with OPL Programming, either on the Communicator or Series 60 devices. It details the tools you'll need to download, where to get them, how to compile the traditional Hello World program, and get it running on your device.
The OPL Wiki now has all the standard OPL Commands and their syntax online. The OPL Commands List is probably one of the key documents for OPL, so a big thank you to Rafe Blandford, Martin Harnevie, Martin Dehler, Matt Croydon and Ewan Spence for getting this in place as quickly as they have.
One advantage to the Wiki is you can post your own comments (or even edit a page online if you spot a glaring error!) If you have code snippets and examples of OPL Commands, feel free to add them to the relevant command to help other OPL Users.