problem is with the app i'm working on, some of the settings need to be changed on the fly. ok, i'll come clean. this is for an apple ][ emulator. i need to be able to swap disks on the fly since there are only 2 drives and some games can span 4 disks.

so the DrNokSnes example won't work for me (would have loved it though. an excuse to learn python).

if i build the UI in Qt (which i would also love!!), my issue is trying to figure out how to tie the entire Qt portions of the code into SDL and the emulator. the emulator is originally written to use directX on windows (AppleWin). i picked up the work after Arnim dropped it off many moons ago (i think 1 year ago) when he did a port to N800. he picked it up from a linux based port of the emulator (that was based off the windows version) that was already running using SDL.

based on ArnimS' version, the emulator could only boot up and load a disk on the N900. it emulated the content fine though but no keyboard input, sound was whacked, tasking out didn't work, etc. a lot of things were broken.

i've been progressively fixing these issue and it is now in a very very useable state on the n900. the next major hurdle i'm facing is to build some simple UI around the emulator that allows the user to change settings on the fly. that's where i'm currently stuck at, and i'm leaning now towards the UI libraries that are listed on the SDL home page.