Between moving house, two projects in crisis, no broadband and google dev day I hav'nt had the chance to do any decent coding for the blog.

I was however really impressed with what google gears potentional was on a mobile device, especially for Enterprise applications.

It makes development much simpler as the code can be written in Javascript and the code takes care of syncing it with the backend services.

Currently C++/Symbian Signed  is just too expensive for Enterprise applications and whilst Red Five's .net version is awsome, its not 3rd edition compliant yet.

Hopefully Nokia will add the needed extensions to the webkit to allow native javascript addons via ecom.

Google refused to be drawn on this issue when the question was asked :(

A couple of people this week asked how to work out what key is being pressed when capturing raw key presses.

This is particularly interesting on the E61 as there are a number of variants of the keyboard and the blue keys all end up being different depending on the device and the language variant

The only way I have found to do some of it is to use the PTIEngine module

Here I use the GetNumericModeKeysForQwertyL to get which numeric keys are mapped onto which keys by looking at the scan codes.

Tech note TSS000415 has more information on getting the remainder of the keys.