redak/doc

Package: redak
URL: http://rzr.online.fr/q/redak
Contact: Philippe Coval
Licence: GPL-3 (OpenSource Free Libre Software)_{Subscript text}


Redak is just a simple text editor to be used on touchscreen. Basic features are Load, Save, Save As, Browse and Edit text. It has been tested on maemo/meego harmattan n950 and n9 ...


== Introduction ==

History of this project :

I needed a basic text editor to handle files on my handset ...
So I created once a Qt texteditor under the name redaktilo
as sample to teach Qt on desktop or tablets (n810) ...
using QtGui was usable with a resistive screen (n810)
but not on capacitives screens so I deciced to create it
again from scratch using QtQuick...

Today supported platform are symbian and meego harmattan.

Basic features are ready to be tested :
* Load, Save, Save As, Browse and Edit text (select, cut and paste).

Features are very limited but enough for me ?

I can't promise I will polish it and add more features but it's opensource
so I can promise i will make efforts to merge patches ?

The project is mostly based on QmL and uses C++/Qt for io.(load/save)...

== ScreenShots ==

[[File:1-redak-edit.png]]

[[File:3-redak-browse.png]]

http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Redak#ScreenShots

== Components==

IO access is done in C++ , the rest UI logic etc is pure qml Javascript


Used ones (symbian or meego) :

* PageStackWindow Page QueryDialog
* Menu MenuLayout MenuItem ToolBar ToolBarLayout ToolButton
* Flickable Column ListView FolderListModel Component MouseArea
* TextArea TextField Text
* Image Rectangle
* Connections

Since the project is opensource you can tear out and reuse my components :


Custom ones to be reused :

* EditPage : the text area
* BrowserPage : the file browser for loading saving pages


== Problem Areas ==

First I created for harmattan then ported to Symbian, the main issue was a minor bug in C++ that prevent loading files (bad path workaround). I feared that was a security issue but it's not ...

Most of the qml code is common between MeeGo and Symbian. But I did not share common parts and I prefer to merge new features ...

I had to find also common images to reuse platform ones ...

* QueryDialog : Had to workaround this bug (using an extra '\n')
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCOMPONENTS-1090


== Future ==

I wish I had a n900 to port it to maemo5 too or a RasperyPI to edit text on TV ...

I'll also plan to use it to test Qt lighthouse ports


== Download ==

Just open this link I tested "redak_qt-4_7_4_symbianBelle-0.4.0.sis" on NokiaE7

https://projects.developer.nokia.com/redak/downloads/2

Also track featured download at :

https://projects.developer.nokia.com/redak

Random files :

https://projects.developer.nokia.com/redak/files

ScreenShot: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/redak/files/screenshot.png

Icon: https://projects.developer.nokia.com/redak/projecticon?environment_name=redak

I plan to publish to ovi stable version ...
but feel free to build form sources too...


== MORE ==


* http://rzr.online.fr/q/redak
* http://rzr.online.fr/q/qt
* http://rzr.online.fr/q/handset
* http://rzr.online.fr/q/harmattan
* http://rzr.online.fr/q/symbian

* http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Redak
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8696448/emit-signals-from-javascript-to-qml
* http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Discussion/showthread.php?173714-how-to-create-XB-Maemo-Icon-26
* http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging_a_Qt_application#Finding_your_package_in_debian
* http://kunalmaemo.blogspot.com/2011/04/signal-slot-connection-with-qml-and-qt.html
* http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qml-variant.html
* http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt-components/qt-components-meego-dialog.html


{{Note|This is an entry in the [[Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition 2012Q1]]}}


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