Hello,
I just started playing with developing a program on the n900. Just running through the examples on this site.
My question is: When i run ./helloworld it looks ugly in scratchbox.
I googled and apparently I should run run-standalone.sh ./helloworld. This works and looks very pretty.

When I copy my binary (compiled for arm) to the n900 unless I run run-standalone beforehand it looks ugly again. Is this because i have not gone through all the packaging/.desktop stuff/because I am not using liboss?

Really loving my N900 btw.

sham

anyone know? please?
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If your app isn't launched from the desktop launcher it won't have various environment variables set correctly.

This is what run-standalone.sh does. A properly packaged app will have a /usr/share/applications/hildon/myapp.desktop file; but you don't have to have do packaging to create and test that (though, if you want to distribute your app, you'll want to package it at some point).

Thanks for the info Jaffa!