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Quite Novice Questions!

Hi..I am a newbie to mosync framework and just trying to play with it.Great intentions above all.
what i want to know is "can I develop mosync applications with comparable quality to pop J2me,brew,symbian,,etc right now or have to wait untill more robust releases? At first sight I am greatly impressed by your valuable effort to mobi world......

thanks in advance for answer Smile

Wishing u got the cup of coming Bercelona event........... Laughing out loud

tks..
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Hi, thanks for the questions. The simple answer is yes. You write your programs in C++ against the MoSync APIs. The compiler then creates a J2ME program, or a native Symbian app, or a native Windows app (depending on the phone you want to compile for). This means you can write your program once, and run it on hundreds of phones with confidence. Try compiling some of the example applications which come supplied with MoSync and running them on your phone.

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hi ..

thank u very much for ur valuable answer...I will try to test sample mosync apps......but what i m confused is that there are a lot of popular cross-platform mobile frameworks and I can't distinguish between them...What I am saying is....

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Phonegap....Titanium....and Rhomobile.........

they all said that with their framework u can write native mobi apps... such as camera and contact list.............using jscript and html,css

plz..what's the main difference and benefits between such frameworks and mosync, my beloved one....???

tks again in advance....sorry for my such ignorance... Smile but i hope that's what the forum stands for!!!!

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Good question. Phonegap, Rhomobile and Titanium are for porting web apps to smartphones, running on top of the phone's rendering engine (I think). As you've said, all three of these are HTML/JS/CSS based solutions, and are good for top-end smartphones (iPhone, Android, BB etc), but don't cover mass-market devices like Nokia and Samsung.

They're great for knocking up yet another Twitter app, but rubbish if you're writing a game, or you want something which is genuinely cross-platform.

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hey....

tks...great answer Smile......

ur answer is a light 4 me.I really target for nokia and samsung platforms..not iphone and ipad or android.So I hope mosync is a great tool for me.coz actually i am proficient in web languages ..I am quite reluctant to use it on mobi devices coz of the idosyncracies nature of this languages...I hope mosyn will answer my needs on such pop nokia and not quite pop devices...

urs,
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One more difference, is that MoSync doesn't (yet!) support Camera and PIM access. It will do so soon, and if you need it make a noise. The developers will see it and it will become a higher priority for them.

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hi..

thanks again for ur advice on cam and pim...by the way, what 2d and 3d engine mosync used..sorry for 2 much ques..coz i hvn't read mosync APIs throughly yet..but what about for vibrations and sound ??

tks agian..

urs,
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I've no idea with 3-d graphics engines, but this thread may help http://www.mosync.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=227

There are API calls for vibration and sound, and a lot of code for 2d graphics. Have a look at the Advanced Graphics & MoTrix examples.

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Hi..tks rival,,,,

Thanks for your reply..I tried and tested mosync examples ...hey very amazing ....
one more question plz...How can I turn on auto-intellisense ..coz in my computer mosync IDE has no this feature..I tried to fix this via Windows>Options ....but still doesn't work........tks in advance for any helpful answer.

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will somebody help me.........??

i'hv just started using mosync....,& i wanna develop one appication based on bluetooth for a project i'm doing.

i tried Motooth sample with nokia 6288 and 3120 classic mobiles.
it gave some output for nokia 6288 but not 3120.i put targect type mobiles as those phone sets in both the cases.

still having problem with nokia 3120 classic..

pls share your knowledge abt bluetooth connectivity with mobile and it's sourcecode in mosync...

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Hi, I'm publishing a bluetooth tutorial very soon. I've not got a 3120, but I'll try to help as much as I can. What are you trying to get it to do? Just see other devices?

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"fizziz" wrote:

How can I turn on auto-intellisense ..coz in my computer mosync IDE has no this feature..I tried to fix this via Windows>Options ....but still doesn't work........tks in advance for any helpful answer.

Hmm. Mines gone now - very annoying.

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I can throw some light on the IntelliSense for the MoSync Ide. MoSync uses the Eclipse CDT plug-in. By pressing Ctrl and Space bar you should get all the available alternatives so If you have the #include in your source you should get the MoSync sys calls however the is a catch. Because MoSync uses this Eclipse plug-in it gets all its problems too. There seems to be Eclipse issues regarding how stable this is. I can start a new project and I get code completion no probs but I have seen others do the same thing without success. If anybody can find a way for consistently cause this to fail I would be interested.

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I can make it stop by attempting (unsuccessfully) to start the debugger. I made it work again by selecting 'Enable Project Specific Settings' on the Index on the project properties, and waiting a couple of minutes. I don't know that there is a direct cause and effect relationship between these things though.