Addons/gui/droidwd

Overview

The droidwd addon is a wd (window driver) emulator using Android java api. It allows running legacy J6 gui code on Android devices. Since this emulator is implemented using some already deprecated api, so that do not depend on it to write production applications.

Usages

First add a require before running any wd commands.

require 'droidwd'

DO NOT use load

load 'droidwd'   NB. never use 'load' unless you are debugging droidwd itself.

Sometimes it also needs to load a related addon wdclass provides several utility classes such as jisigraph and jview.

require 'droidwd wdclass'

J602's base library since 6.02.066 will ignore droidwd and wdclass for load or require. In addition, gtkwd will be ignored on Android and droidwd will be ignored on desktops, so it is harmless to include a require 'droidwd gtkwd' if you want the script to run under both J602 and J701 jgtk and Android.

Each form should be contained inside its own class and that class must coinsert the class wdbase. Execute the verb start_droidwd with an argument of the class or object locale to start the app. wd commands for creating form will be run via droidwd_run. This can be summarized as below

require 'droidwd'  NB. or 'droidwd wdclass' if jisigraph or jview is needed
coclass 'foo.
coinsert. 'wdbase'
droidwd_run=: run

...

run=: 3 : 0
wd 'pc form;pn "hello"'
....
)

...

start_droidwd 'foo'  NB.  start_droidwd '' is OK if this line is inside the same class, foo

Simple Example

The following is a simple but complete example showing how to use this wd emulator.

require 'droidwd'
coclass 'reverse'
coinsert 'wdbase'
droidwd_run=: run

REVERSE=: 0 : 0
pc reverse; pn reverse;
xywh 10 10 80 10; cc e edit;
xywh 10 30 40 10; cc b button; cn reverse;
)

run=: 3 : 0
wd REVERSE
wd 'set e "hello j"'
)

reverse_b_button=: 3 : 0
wd 'set e *', |.e
)

start_droidwd ''  NB,  automatically run after loading

The prologue (first 4 lines) is new, the rest is a typical j602 gui program.

To run from outside after loading the script, omit the last sentence and run it with

start_droidwd_reverse_ 'reverse'

Incompatible Changes

each activity only allows 1 parent form, and it will occupy the whole screen, in other wrods, no overlapping windows.
positions and sizes of widgets will be overrided by Android layout manager.
position and size from wd'qformx' does not include window border and title bar.
although gl2 commands can be used outside the paint event, the actual drawing will only be displayed inside the paint event.
glpaintx from J504 is re-introduced, but do not run glpaintx inside a paint event, otherwise there will be an infinite loop.
container for subforms must be a tab control.
radio button group is arranged vertically, or horizontally is the first radio button has the bs_lefttext style.
mb dialog box is non-modal and results in the callback form_alertdialog with sysdata containing the position of button pressed.
similarly, mbquery, mbopen and mbsave do not work.

Extension

pc command supports 2 new styles - scroll and hscroll. A parent form with them can scroll vertically or horizontally so that the actual can be larger than the physical screen. Note that it can not contain any listbox or the listbox can not scroll. This is a feature Android UI.
isigraph supports 2 new styles - image and web. The content can be set with the set command as follows.

require 'droidwd'
coclass 'exten'
coinsert 'wdbase'
droidwd_run=: run


EXTEN=: 0 : 0
pc exten scroll; pn exten;
xywh 0 0 150 150; cc g1 isigraph image;
xywh 0 150 150 150; cc g2 isigraph web;
)

run=: 3 : 0
wd EXTEN
wd 'set g1 *', 1!:1 < jpath '~bin/icons/favicon.ico'  NB. image
wd 'set g2 *http://www.jsoftware.com'          NB. URL of webpage
NB. wd 'set g2 *', '<html> .... </html>'       NB. source of webpage
)

start_droidwd 'exten'

Limitation

Microsoft windows features such as oleautomation, ocx, emf, richedit will not be implemented.

Un-implemented wd Commands

The following commands are not or will not be implemented.

session manager not supported

 smcolor smkeywords smsetlog sminputlog

ole commands not supported

 oleget olegetlic oleinfo
 oledlg oleenable oleid oleload olemethod olemethodx oleocx olerelease olesave oleset olesetlic

most parent commands

 pactive pas pcenter picon pmove pmoves psel pshow ptop

un-implemented child classes

 groupbox scrollbar scrollbarv spin spinv static trackbarv

other ignored commands

 qhinst qhwndx qkeystate qrtf
 mbcolor mbfont mbopen mbprinter mbsave
 clipcopyx clippastex msgs pcolor security setbkgnd setcolor setcolwidth setpclip setupdate settabstops tnomsgs wait
 setdelete setedit setfocus setinsert setlimit setmodified setreadonly setreplace setscroll setselect

Un-implemented gl2 Commands

The following commands are not implemented.

glcapture
glclip
glclipreset
glcaret
glcursor
glemfclose
glemfopen
glemfplay
glfile
glroundr
glwindoworg

Demos

Demos are available in addons

demos/isigraph
demos/wd
demos/wdplot
games/minesweeper
games/pousse

All of the above demos can be run from demos/wd.

load 'demos/wd/demos'

Dependency

Obviously, droidwd requires gui/android for working. It also depends on the addon graphics/gl2 for isigraph and gl2 functions.

TODO

Bugs

Please report bugs with information such as Android version and testing devices. Provide a simple script to reproduce the bug if applicable.

Contributed by Bill Lam