Originally Posted by Venemo

Hello,

At the moment I can't write all the code for you, but I can give you some pointers about how to do it.

• Install Nokia Qt SDK (1.0 final is the latest)
• Install the newest Qt Creator snapshot from here:
  ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator/snapshots/
  (The version in the SDK is quite crappy)
• Launch the newly installed Qt Creator
• Create a new Gui Application project
• Set the Maemo 5 Qt 4.6 as build target
• Add to it a class (or use the generated one) and copy-paste to its .ui file yours from the designer
• If you wanna run your app on your device, install the "Mad Developer" package on it, set the USB driver to "usb_ether" (Etheret - USB networking), then plug it in your PC, select "PC Suite mode" (if usb_ether is selected, that will be used), and set up USB networking on your PC.
• In Qt Creator, Tools/Options/Projects/Maemo device configurations
• Then, go to the "Projects" tab in the editor, and below the "Build steps", click on the arrow next to "Create Package", and check the "Skip packaging step" option
  - This will make it WAY faster to run your app.
• Here is a tutorial about how to launch a process from a Qt app:
  http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...Qt_for_Symbian
  (The tutorial has Symbian in its title, but it contains non-Symbian-specific code.)
• For the shell scrips, you'll have to run "sh yourscript.sh" with QProcess
• For generic C++ questions, you can search Google or ask on StackOverflow
• If you want to make a .deb package, you can use Qt Creator's option to do so (but it is quite limited at the moment), or use MADDE and type "mad dpkg-buildpackage" into the command line (in your app's root folder)
• There is a description somewhere in the Maemo Wiki about how to make it a Settings applet, but I couldn't find it now.

I know this was a very dense description, but I hope it will help!

Originally Posted by Nathraiben

Not sure whether I should post this, as right now I'm trying to blow the "embrace the future - develop with QT" - but coming from PHP, using Python and PyQt might indeed be the easier way to do it.

That would require to:

• Download and install Eric (if on Linux - don't know what the Win-only bunch are using)
• Err... well, that's pretty much it for preparations
• Test-run your application by SSH-ing, use folder-sharing or simply copying your scripts to the device and simply run it with "python path/to/app.py" - Python doesn't need compiling.
• For packaging, just follow the instructions on this wiki page and you're done.

Again, if you want to be future prove, go with C++ and Qt, but if you want to keep it easy (and maemo-only), Python and PyQt would do the trick without much hassle, especially when you're coming from a PHP background.

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Heh, well, got it running on the device.

Now the hardest part: how to make the buttons actually to do something :-P

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

Good thing seems to be that I can use the .ui -file with QT Creator and PyQT4.

Originally Posted by TNiga

If you want to run your shell script in the button handler, you need to use function int QProcess::execute ( const QString & program, const QStringList & arguments ).

In above example from Nathraiben you would call it in function hello like this:

Code:

void MainWindow::hello()
{
    QStringList arguments;
    arguments << "Enable custom transitions" << "Droid Sans" << "Black";
    QProcess::execute("/path/to/my/script/script.sh", arguments);
}