BIG EDIT TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR.

MADDE creation of files unclear if it works as of yet.

Scratchbox defernetly works for this.

Ok so you have created a widget using the template given by the guy above me and you want to test it on the device or simulator.

First of all you should compile your application in the same way you would a normal qt application for maemo.

Go to scratchbox decide on your target x86 or arm.

cd to the applications folder.

Then use.

"qmake"

then

"make"

You then have to create a .desktop file i used the one from the example and edited it for my application.The file must be lower case. very simple just change the name at X-path to your application name and change type= to type = qt. and change the name part so the correct name is sown in the add widget gui.

Then either cp "x86" or scp "arm" your files over dippending on weather you target the x86 emulator or the arm processor.

make sure when you scp a file to your mobile that you state the file you want to scp first then the location you want to deliver it to.

This had me stumped for a while because i was scp'ing from my mobile to my computer woops.

Location for files on mobile.

.desktop file
/usr/share/applications/hildon-home
Edit: .desktop file name must be lower case.

executable file
/usr/lib/hildon-desktop

Location for files on emulator.

.desktop file
/scratchbox/users/"computer login name"/target/Fremantel x86/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/

Executable file
/scratchbox/users/"computer login name"/target/Fremantel x86/usr/lib/hildon-desktop

Once this is done go to your x-term on the mobile/desktop "dippending if you are emulating or testing on device". locate the executable file.

Do "chmod 775 'executable file name'" without quotes or back ticks.

You dont realy need to do this on the emulator testing but its good to remember.

one last step make sure you have installed the qt-homescreen-loader can either be installed when istalling the examples for the homscreen widget opr installed seperatly thro apt-get.

Hint "apt-cache search" is your freind.

once the loader is installed go to the add widget section and you should see it there click to add it.

Bang and the work is done .

Have to love thos cilit bang adverts.

I will create this into a wiki if people would prefer with alot more detail.

If you fancy saying cheers just hit the thansk button .

Which Qt version are you using? How did you implement the widget? Please provide more details, that we can help

Anyway, here is a post about how to implement a widget and here you can dig into the code. Hope that helps.

Daniel

BIG EDIT TO MAKE THINGS CLEAR.

MADDE creation of files unclear if it works as of yet.

Scratchbox defernetly works for this.

Ok so you have created a widget using the template given by the guy above me and you want to test it on the device or simulator.

First of all you should compile your application in the same way you would a normal qt application for maemo.

Go to scratchbox decide on your target x86 or arm.

cd to the applications folder.

Then use.

"qmake"

then

"make"

You then have to create a .desktop file i used the one from the example and edited it for my application.The file must be lower case. very simple just change the name at X-path to your application name and change type= to type = qt. and change the name part so the correct name is sown in the add widget gui.

Then either cp "x86" or scp "arm" your files over dippending on weather you target the x86 emulator or the arm processor.

make sure when you scp a file to your mobile that you state the file you want to scp first then the location you want to deliver it to.

This had me stumped for a while because i was scp'ing from my mobile to my computer woops.

Location for files on mobile.

.desktop file
/usr/share/applications/hildon-home
Edit: .desktop file name must be lower case.

executable file
/usr/lib/hildon-desktop

Location for files on emulator.

.desktop file
/scratchbox/users/"computer login name"/target/Fremantel x86/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/

Executable file
/scratchbox/users/"computer login name"/target/Fremantel x86/usr/lib/hildon-desktop

Once this is done go to your x-term on the mobile/desktop "dippending if you are emulating or testing on device". locate the executable file.

Do "chmod 775 'executable file name'" without quotes or back ticks.

You dont realy need to do this on the emulator testing but its good to remember.

one last step make sure you have installed the qt-homescreen-loader can either be installed when istalling the examples for the homscreen widget opr installed seperatly thro apt-get.

Hint "apt-cache search" is your freind.

once the loader is installed go to the add widget section and you should see it there click to add it.

Bang and the work is done .

Have to love thos cilit bang adverts.

I will create this into a wiki if people would prefer with alot more detail.

If you fancy saying cheers just hit the thansk button .

Found solution you infact do not need to make it a shared libary executable is fine.
learnt alot from this today tho so im glad it wasnt to straight forward.

So just the executabla and the .desktop files are needed for desktop widgets in qt? And which class do you subclass as a main window, QWidget or QDialog?

Yes just the executable file and .desktop file are needed to make the home screen widget.

But i would advise using scratchbox to compile as i was having major issues with getting it running when compiling with madde on windows.

I am no expert here but i think you NEED to use the base code from there example as it interfaces with X11.

Also i had to edit the examples .pro file by moving the include(qmaemo5homescreenadaptor.pri)
to the line below the template=app.

you may have read that you need the qt plugin loader to load qt home screen apps this is still true and you can get it by installing the qt4-homescreen-example as it is a dependancie. or i think you can install the plugin loader from atp-get.

ok well i have my example working in scratchbox and xypher but i still can not get it to load on the mobile.

weirdly enough the hello world one does work so im stuck any help would greatly appreciated.

Ok i just decided to test something. I went to the directory on my n900 where the application part resides and tried to run it i got permission denied the tried to run the example and it ran so i think its a permissions issue.

Could anybody with experience with permissions help me fix this? As you can probably tell i am new ish to linux and dont understand every single concept as of yet.

Edit: just did ls -l to see permissions all other widgets have

-rw-r--r--

but mine has
-rwxr-xr-x

So question is how can i change from one to the other on the pnone?

chmod 775 did it i now have my widget so hope fully onto packaging tomoz :S. lol it looks like a hole bag of fun.

Hey, I'm also experimenting with this.
Could you please tell me how did you achieve it?

Is it possible with MADDE?