Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

Hi!

I would need to start an maemo application from linux, basicly to run this

Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -kb
scratchbox
af-sb-init.sh stop
af-sb-init.sh start
run-standalone.sh my_maemo_app

in one step from linux app. Is there any way to do it?

Thanks
pka

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

you should do run-standalone.sh ./my_maemo_app

for this to work you have to be on the same directory as the executable or run-standalone.sh /path/to/my_maemo_app

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

run-standalone.sh ./my_maemo_app can be started only inside of the scratchbox, but I need to start maemo app from linux from an application outside of scratchbox. Is there any solution for that?

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

any reason why you need to do that ?
as far as I know its neccessary to be in the scrathbox environment to run anything in there as for all practical purposes its another system (virtual ) in your linux system.

You could try running them in a script with some sleep ? not really sure if its worth all this, depends on what you are trying to achieve perhaps.
I use a linux environment and I have terminals where im logged into the scratchbox and also have Xephyr up. Didnt find any problems in using it this way so far :)

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

It runs for me that way too, but we are working on to make it as userfriendly as possible. Our tool may be also used by not so technical persons so it would be great if they can just click on a button in linux app and maemo app is up and running. Any solutions for that?

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

sorry to be persistent , but are you aware the emulator is just for testing purposes, there are many things an app wont be able to do in a straightforward way in the scratchbox emulator, for example network related programming might not work well....

when I get a chance I'll try to see if there is a way to script this , so that you could run a maemo app from the linux commandline on the scratchbox emulator.

Re: Starting scratchbox appliaction from linux
 

I am aware of that, everything works fine except this we managed to solve it by modifying the .bashrc like this:

if [ -f ˜/.MyappStartLock ]; then
rm ˜/.MyappStartLock
af-sb-init.sh stop
af-sb-init.sh start
run-standalone.sh Myapp
logout
fi

and then start it like this from our tool :

touch /scratchbox/users/maemo/home/maemo/.MyappStartLock
Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -kb > /dev/null&
scratchbox

but we don't like the idea to modify the .bashrc . It would be great if there would be an another solution for that. Thanks!