Gp2x Pda Functionality


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Will the GP2X have any sory of PDA punctionality? Such as storing dates, notes and addresses. I imagine these things would not be very complex to develop, and probably would benefit a wide range of users. Really, the only hard thing would be taking in the alphabetic input (possibly an onscreen keyboard will be displayed).

I have a few ideas on how to write my own calendar and notes application, but im not familiar with C or C++, just Java and a few other languages.

(If anyone knows howto convert Java to C++, let me know :p)
 
Will the GP2X have any sory of PDA punctionality? Such as storing dates, notes and addresses. I imagine these things would not be very complex to develop, and probably would benefit a wide range of users.

I have a few ideas on how to write my own calendar and notes application, but im not familiar with C or C++, just Java and a few other languages.

(If anyone knows howto convert Java to C++, let me know :p)
If you know java you shouldn't have a hard time learning some c++ rather quickly.
 
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The GP2X doesn't have a battery backed up clock so don't expect it t be able to remind you of dates ;) it will take a little while to boot up so if you are used to a PDA being able to give you the information you need quickly then you may be disapointed. Also there is no touchscreen so no handwriting recognition or onscreen keyboard.

Apart from that it should be fine for keeping notes, phone numbers, adressess etc
 
yes, I took both basic java and basic C++ at my school and they are very similar (logically)
 
The GP2X doesn't have a battery backed up clock so don't expect it t be able to remind you of dates ;) it will take a little while to boot up so if you are used to a PDA being able to give you the information you need quickly then you may be disapointed. Also there is no touchscreen so no handwriting recognition or onscreen keyboard.

Apart from that it should be fine for keeping notes, phone numbers, adressess etc

They could easily fix the boot time issue by having the kernel boot once, then dump the RAM it occupies and the stack into a file in NAND. Then to boot, copy the file from NAND back into the RAM it was located in, and restore the stack, then reset the stack pointer.

Edit: It still wouldn't be instant, but it would sure be faster than the current boot up times.
The boot loader would give you the option "speed boot" or something like that where it tries to boot from the restoreable file, and if it can't, just boot the kernel normally and then remake the "freeze fyle".

I'm posting this as a new topic.
 
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Hmm, well not exactly remind you of upcoming dates, but say you can enter a date format, use Oracles for example (DD-Mon-YY). You ask for the day, month, and year and store the item for that date. Then when you display each of them sort the dates, and display the sorted list. Should be easy enough, although the Oracle date format would be bad for sorting.

So something like this could be displayed

Code:
Please select a date to view, or edit.
13-01-05 - Java assignment
17-01-05 - VB.Net midterm
25-12-05 - Christmass day

You would then be able to select one of these and view full details.
You could even group each date into months first, and then breakoff into the lists of events.
Many things you can do :)
 
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