Hello,

I recently purchased the N800 and have been very happy with it so far. This morning I upgraded to OS2008 and it went off without a hitch.

I like to do crossword puzzles online. One in particular is the daily crossword on boston.com.

The N800 loads the crossword (Macromedia Flash) but doesn't allow me to enter text into the puzzle, i.e. when I tap on a puzzle square the keyboard doesn't appear.

I searched these forums and found a couple of threads along these lines. One solution was to use xkbd (Xwindows keyboard?), but when I followed the link for xkbd it appears that several users are having problems with this on OS2008.

Another solution uses something call BeCrossword. It doesn't appear that this solution would work for the particular crossword puzzles I like to do (i.e. the link above).

Is there a solution that will allow me to play these Flash crossword puzzles on the N800 (using OS2008)? If not, is it possible that there will be one in the near future?

thanks,
tony (no longer an internettablettalk virgin)

so far there has been no xword puzzle solution for the NIT's. I am a BeCrossword user and the only way to use it is to have the PalmOS version and run it inside the Garnet VM for the NIT's.

i too have yet to find any way to use flash based xword puzzles either. i have yet to try using my BT keyboard tough that sorta defeats the portable aspect of just killing time working a puzzle anywhere.

i guess there is puzzle app for KDE that someone said they were going to try and port but that does not help with Flash puzzles.

I am actually pretty disappointed and surprised at this hole in the list of apps. So, I must carry both my Clie nx73v & n800 when otg...

EDIT: ok the iGo Stoaway works with the Flash Universal Crossword puzzles. I just now did a fast test...not idea buut
if you have one it will work. Still hard just whip out a keyboard just anywhere.

I typically use BeCrossword with Garnet VM for my crossword puzzle fun. But I decided to try the Boston crossword with xkbd. Amazingly enough, xkbd seemed to work just fine with the flash-based crossword (on my N800 with OS2008). Granted, the flash crossword was a bit slow, but xkbd didn't go crazy and enter random characters like I have seen it do in other applications. You may want to give the latest version of xkbd a test run to see if it works for you.

Thanks for all the info/suggestions. I may give xkbd a shot, if I can figure out how to install it properly.

I have no plans on getting a bluetooth keyboard as I don't want something else to have to carry around with me.

tony

Well I've been trying to install xkbd but am running into issues. It appears that xkbd requires libxpm4, but when I try to install libxpm4 I get "Incompatible application package".

My N800 is running OS2008. I see that there's an xterm under "Utilities" so it appears that OS2008 comes with some sort of xwindows package. I looked in /lib but didn't see a libxpm4 file.

Am I correct in assuming I need libxpm4 to get xkbd to work? If so, any hints as to how I get libxpm4 properly installed?

thanks!

jagerdog,

Go here and first ( http://pupnik.de/xkbd.html ) install the libxpm4 first. You might need to be in red pill first to install these lib's. Then once that is installed go ahead and install xkbd. I just installed and it works great. To test xkbd first go into x-term and type xkbd after you type in sudo gainroot. The little xkbd keyboard will pop right up and you can start typing away.

If this is all new to you do a search on these forums for x-term, sudo gainroot, becomeroot, red pill mode, etc...
Hope this helps. Dan

Edit: Just tested on boston.com website above and xkbd works flawlessly on crossword puzzles. Thanks for the tip on crossword puzzles at boston.com. I first had to activate xkbd from x-term by typing in xkbd after I typed in sudo gainroot. The above was for newbies who might not understand.
What we now need is an app that retrieves puzzles online for offline use and a native app that allows you to play them online. I'm thinking of something like MyTube for youtube downloads and play.

@jagerdog

dan is right, although you will want Addison's fixed layout

there's a relatively new project in the garage that i've been keeping an eye on -- xword. no binaries yet, but it's supposed to support AcrossLite (*.puz) format files. i'd love to be able to download my NYTimes puzzles to the N800 and solve them there... just waiting for the .deb file to show up...

@briand

If it's in svn, someone could compile it. Not me though, my scratchbox comp is off and tbh, d be unsure anyway on the hows.

@briand

Check your PM