April 08, 2024
UIQ Event Core Updated to v0.61
The OPL Skeleton application Event Core, by Ewan Spence and FreEPOC, has been updated to version 0.61. The main change is the menu system now works correctly through pen taps, and can be tapped on like any other UIQ menu.
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February 16, 2024
OPL at O'Reilly
I'm finally back in the UK, after talking about OPL at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The talk went really well, around 70 people turned up to listen and see what OPL could do. And I expect most people at the conference got personal demos of OPL from myself (and some free OPL applications on the MMC Cards I was giving away).
There's a lot of people out there interested in OPL, and programming their smartphones. There's also some corporate interest, some from Nokia, and some from other large organisations that I need to follow up. Hopefully we'll see some new programs from people in the near future.
In summary, OPL continues onwards, gaining mindshare, momentum and new runtimes so OPL can appear on more devices.
Some people have been watching news from Etech and asked "what are we going to do now Nokia are releasing Python for Series 60?" The obvious answer is nothing. Firstly OPL isn't all about Series 60 (more on that next week), and the languages are geared to doing different things. After talking to Nokia, there should be no reason why OPL cannot call Python scripts (and vice versa).
Secondly, the more languages a platform has, the more developers there are. The more developers there are, the more applications. The more applications, the better the community for the device.
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February 10, 2024
Are You Attending the OPL Presentation?
The talk is tomorrow, and not only will you get to hear what OPL is all about, you'll get to see real live OPL apps running on Symbian devices. There's also a whole bundle of OPL Related stuff to give away (yes, free for everyone who turns up), and the best members of the audience will win some jelly babies. \
Do you want to know more? Find the man in the kilt at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
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January 27, 2024
Find out more about OPL at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
Ewan is going to be attending O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this year. It runs from 9th-12th Feb, and if you want to learn more about OPL, then Ewan is doing a presentation on Tueday. He'll also be giving away some MMC Demo cards filled with OPL goodies, and there might be an unexpected announcement or two during the presentation. If you're attending, Ewan will be the Mad Scotsman in a Kilt...
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December 09, 2003
Event Core - A Building Block for OPL
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.
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December 05, 2003
OPL-Dev Team Announces version 0.30 of the Series 60 Runtime and Documentation Website
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.
Full compatibility for the latest version of Symbian OS (7.0s) in devices such as the Nokia 6600 is now provided.
OPL allows Full Screen mode, and control over all the status bars through the AppFrame.opx language extension .dll.
OPL Developers can now use the built in Menu System for user interaction.
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.
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November 10, 2003
OPL Presentation at O'Reilly Emerging Technolgy Conference
Ewan has been invited to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in February 2024. The talk is titled Reintroducing OPL, the Open Programming Language, to Modern Computing, and takes place at 5.15pm on Tuesday 10th February. If you're attending the conference, why not drop in and find out more about OPL?
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November 05, 2003
OPL Wiki Online
Thanks to some sterling work by Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian, the OPL Wiki is now up and running.
A Wiki is a database running through a normal web browser that allows anyone who registers, to edit and add content. The next few weeks will see the OPL team (and some new volunteers to the team) populate the Wiki with documentation, and an up to date list of commands and their syntax. Hopefully there should be more than enough documentation there when the PC Developers Suite and Series 60 Launcher app are given a pubic launch.
Posted by Ewan at 03:40 PM
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October 29, 2003
OPL At The Series 60 Community Awards
Ewan is just back from attending the Series 60 Community awards, and took the time to demonstrate and make a case for OPL to Nokia, Sendo and Siemens. He also made sure that many developers are aware of OPL and how they can help OPL and OPL help the,. The initial feedback has been good, and there are a few things to follow up.
The idea of a simple PC Developer Enviroment struck a chord with a lot of people. And while there might be a few more issues to sort out around this PC Tool, OPL on Series 60 is definitly moving forward.
Posted by Ewan at 10:58 AM
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October 11, 2003
Progress Report
Yes it's been a long time since something significant happened with OPL on the public front, but there is still a lot of progress being made behind the scenes.
The Sereis 60 runtime is Rick's focus at the moment - and the implementation of Menus and Dialogs is the main thing being worked on - with that in place, all you people raring to go when the menu support became active should be able to release your applications.
We've got a few PC Developers to look over some ideas for a simplified PC Dev enviroment, and one Series 60 author is bouncing around some ideas for an OPL Launcher on the device.
Hopefully we'l have some more news and a clear indication of those last two elements at some point next week.
Posted by Ewan at 11:34 AM
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June 24, 2003
9200 Translator Updated
A new version of the OPL translator is released. It's available in the OPL for Nokia 9200 Communicator user package as well as the developer package. This is a milestone for the opl-dev project: it's the first time a non-Symbian developer has contributed changes to the OPL language source code! See the release notes for details.
Posted by Ewan at 09:45 AM
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May 07, 2003
Series 60 Runtime (v0.21) Updated
A new alpha version of Series 60 user package is available. No major changes this time, just a build from the newly merged 9210 and Series 60 source code. See release notes for details. For the first time, an alpha version of Series 60 developer package is available for download. Links (as always) on the left hand side column.
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March 27, 2003
Greetings and Welcome
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UIQ Event Core Updated to v0.61
The OPL Skeleton application Event Core, by Ewan Spence and FreEPOC, has been updated to version 0.61. The main change is the menu system now works correctly through pen taps, and can be tapped on like any other UIQ menu.
OPL at O'Reilly
I'm finally back in the UK, after talking about OPL at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The talk went really well, around 70 people turned up to listen and see what OPL could do. And I expect most people at the conference got personal demos of OPL from myself (and some free OPL applications on the MMC Cards I was giving away).
There's a lot of people out there interested in OPL, and programming their smartphones. There's also some corporate interest, some from Nokia, and some from other large organisations that I need to follow up. Hopefully we'll see some new programs from people in the near future.
In summary, OPL continues onwards, gaining mindshare, momentum and new runtimes so OPL can appear on more devices.
Some people have been watching news from Etech and asked "what are we going to do now Nokia are releasing Python for Series 60?" The obvious answer is nothing. Firstly OPL isn't all about Series 60 (more on that next week), and the languages are geared to doing different things. After talking to Nokia, there should be no reason why OPL cannot call Python scripts (and vice versa).
Secondly, the more languages a platform has, the more developers there are. The more developers there are, the more applications. The more applications, the better the community for the device.
February 10, 2024
Are You Attending the OPL Presentation?
The talk is tomorrow, and not only will you get to hear what OPL is all about, you'll get to see real live OPL apps running on Symbian devices. There's also a whole bundle of OPL Related stuff to give away (yes, free for everyone who turns up), and the best members of the audience will win some jelly babies. \
Do you want to know more? Find the man in the kilt at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
Posted by Ewan at 11:55 PM
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January 27, 2024
Find out more about OPL at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
Ewan is going to be attending O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this year. It runs from 9th-12th Feb, and if you want to learn more about OPL, then Ewan is doing a presentation on Tueday. He'll also be giving away some MMC Demo cards filled with OPL goodies, and there might be an unexpected announcement or two during the presentation. If you're attending, Ewan will be the Mad Scotsman in a Kilt...
Posted by Ewan at 10:20 AM
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December 09, 2003
Event Core - A Building Block for OPL
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.
Posted by Ewan at 03:00 PM
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December 05, 2003
OPL-Dev Team Announces version 0.30 of the Series 60 Runtime and Documentation Website
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.
Full compatibility for the latest version of Symbian OS (7.0s) in devices such as the Nokia 6600 is now provided.
OPL allows Full Screen mode, and control over all the status bars through the AppFrame.opx language extension .dll.
OPL Developers can now use the built in Menu System for user interaction.
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.
Posted by Ewan at 12:40 AM
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November 10, 2003
OPL Presentation at O'Reilly Emerging Technolgy Conference
Ewan has been invited to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in February 2024. The talk is titled Reintroducing OPL, the Open Programming Language, to Modern Computing, and takes place at 5.15pm on Tuesday 10th February. If you're attending the conference, why not drop in and find out more about OPL?
Posted by Ewan at 10:00 PM
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November 05, 2003
OPL Wiki Online
Thanks to some sterling work by Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian, the OPL Wiki is now up and running.
A Wiki is a database running through a normal web browser that allows anyone who registers, to edit and add content. The next few weeks will see the OPL team (and some new volunteers to the team) populate the Wiki with documentation, and an up to date list of commands and their syntax. Hopefully there should be more than enough documentation there when the PC Developers Suite and Series 60 Launcher app are given a pubic launch.
Posted by Ewan at 03:40 PM
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October 29, 2003
OPL At The Series 60 Community Awards
Ewan is just back from attending the Series 60 Community awards, and took the time to demonstrate and make a case for OPL to Nokia, Sendo and Siemens. He also made sure that many developers are aware of OPL and how they can help OPL and OPL help the,. The initial feedback has been good, and there are a few things to follow up.
The idea of a simple PC Developer Enviroment struck a chord with a lot of people. And while there might be a few more issues to sort out around this PC Tool, OPL on Series 60 is definitly moving forward.
Posted by Ewan at 10:58 AM
| Comments (1)
October 11, 2003
Progress Report
Yes it's been a long time since something significant happened with OPL on the public front, but there is still a lot of progress being made behind the scenes.
The Sereis 60 runtime is Rick's focus at the moment - and the implementation of Menus and Dialogs is the main thing being worked on - with that in place, all you people raring to go when the menu support became active should be able to release your applications.
We've got a few PC Developers to look over some ideas for a simplified PC Dev enviroment, and one Series 60 author is bouncing around some ideas for an OPL Launcher on the device.
Hopefully we'l have some more news and a clear indication of those last two elements at some point next week.
Posted by Ewan at 11:34 AM
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June 24, 2003
9200 Translator Updated
A new version of the OPL translator is released. It's available in the OPL for Nokia 9200 Communicator user package as well as the developer package. This is a milestone for the opl-dev project: it's the first time a non-Symbian developer has contributed changes to the OPL language source code! See the release notes for details.
Posted by Ewan at 09:45 AM
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May 07, 2003
Series 60 Runtime (v0.21) Updated
A new alpha version of Series 60 user package is available. No major changes this time, just a build from the newly merged 9210 and Series 60 source code. See release notes for details. For the first time, an alpha version of Series 60 developer package is available for download. Links (as always) on the left hand side column.
Posted by Ewan at 11:49 PM
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March 27, 2003
Greetings and Welcome
We aren't open for business right now, but keep coming back as we should be sometime soon.
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Posted by Switchblade at 03:28 PM
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Are You Attending the OPL Presentation?
The talk is tomorrow, and not only will you get to hear what OPL is all about, you'll get to see real live OPL apps running on Symbian devices. There's also a whole bundle of OPL Related stuff to give away (yes, free for everyone who turns up), and the best members of the audience will win some jelly babies. \
Do you want to know more? Find the man in the kilt at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
Find out more about OPL at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
Ewan is going to be attending O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego this year. It runs from 9th-12th Feb, and if you want to learn more about OPL, then Ewan is doing a presentation on Tueday. He'll also be giving away some MMC Demo cards filled with OPL goodies, and there might be an unexpected announcement or two during the presentation. If you're attending, Ewan will be the Mad Scotsman in a Kilt...
December 09, 2003
Event Core - A Building Block for OPL
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.
December 05, 2003
OPL-Dev Team Announces version 0.30 of the Series 60 Runtime and Documentation Website
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.
November 10, 2003
OPL Presentation at O'Reilly Emerging Technolgy Conference
Ewan has been invited to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in February 2024. The talk is titled Reintroducing OPL, the Open Programming Language, to Modern Computing, and takes place at 5.15pm on Tuesday 10th February. If you're attending the conference, why not drop in and find out more about OPL?
November 05, 2003
OPL Wiki Online
Thanks to some sterling work by Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian, the OPL Wiki is now up and running.
A Wiki is a database running through a normal web browser that allows anyone who registers, to edit and add content. The next few weeks will see the OPL team (and some new volunteers to the team) populate the Wiki with documentation, and an up to date list of commands and their syntax. Hopefully there should be more than enough documentation there when the PC Developers Suite and Series 60 Launcher app are given a pubic launch.
October 29, 2003
OPL At The Series 60 Community Awards
Ewan is just back from attending the Series 60 Community awards, and took the time to demonstrate and make a case for OPL to Nokia, Sendo and Siemens. He also made sure that many developers are aware of OPL and how they can help OPL and OPL help the,. The initial feedback has been good, and there are a few things to follow up.
The idea of a simple PC Developer Enviroment struck a chord with a lot of people. And while there might be a few more issues to sort out around this PC Tool, OPL on Series 60 is definitly moving forward.
October 11, 2003
Progress Report
Yes it's been a long time since something significant happened with OPL on the public front, but there is still a lot of progress being made behind the scenes.
The Sereis 60 runtime is Rick's focus at the moment - and the implementation of Menus and Dialogs is the main thing being worked on - with that in place, all you people raring to go when the menu support became active should be able to release your applications.
We've got a few PC Developers to look over some ideas for a simplified PC Dev enviroment, and one Series 60 author is bouncing around some ideas for an OPL Launcher on the device.
Hopefully we'l have some more news and a clear indication of those last two elements at some point next week.
June 24, 2003
9200 Translator Updated
A new version of the OPL translator is released. It's available in the OPL for Nokia 9200 Communicator user package as well as the developer package. This is a milestone for the opl-dev project: it's the first time a non-Symbian developer has contributed changes to the OPL language source code! See the release notes for details.
May 07, 2003
Series 60 Runtime (v0.21) Updated
A new alpha version of Series 60 user package is available. No major changes this time, just a build from the newly merged 9210 and Series 60 source code. See release notes for details. For the first time, an alpha version of Series 60 developer package is available for download. Links (as always) on the left hand side column.
March 27, 2003
Greetings and Welcome
We aren't open for business right now, but keep coming back as we should be sometime soon.
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