Ugur Kaner's Forum Nokia Blog - The Pain of Flash Lite 3.0

MobiFLV and Capuchin-like solution for SC++ developer

Hi Ugur,
I'm not Flash Lite expert. And never write even one line of FL code. But i really think FL is a excellent solution for GUI design if it can be used in other technology. I'm always looking on SE Project Capuchin and hope what sometime such feature will be aviable for Symbian C++ developers.
Several days ago i found a news about MobiFLV v1.0:
"What is MobiFLV

MobiFLV is Open Source FLV Player for Symbian ported from libavcodec, video decoder part of ffmpeg. MobiFLV is written in C and Symbian C++ language.

License

MobiFLV is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)."

Thats a link:
http://www.mobitubia.com/dp/?q=content/libavcodec-and-mobiflv-source-code

And thats a FN blog post:
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/sittiphol-phanvilais-forum-nokia-blog/2008/08/25/mobiflv-open-source-flv-player-for-symbian

I feel its sources can be used for Capuchin-like system, which allow Symbian C++ application use Flash GUI and vice versa. With help of Adobe Open Project that solution will not have any problem with licensing. I'm I wrong? As I say, i'm not a FL coder and want to clarify that. Can MobiFLV help to create real Symbian C++ - Flash Lite bridge instead of that c++ plugin tricks?

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Truf

Its not a problem when running application in the phone, but SIS-packaging problem, its not possible to know where to place files, because
user can choose between 2 different places, during SIS installation.

However, we solved it locating some files in the phone memory.

S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 devices and trusted folder

Please use Pathinfo.h which is released through SDK to get right others folder path.
http://www.forum.nokia.com/document/Cpp_Developers_Library/GUID-96C272CA-2BED-4352-AE7C-E692B193EC06/html/classPathInfo.html

Then append Trusted folder. Now you will get folder path for trusted sandbox

Hi Felipe,

Not tried it yet; but with Flash Lite 2.x, we received 4-5 times in one second, whereas with Flash Lite 3.0 it's once a second. Might it be something else than XML sockets? Or somehow related to S60 code, or localhost connections? We figured out this situation after the Forum Nokia post I mentioned.

BTW, great to see Jarpa is going well for extending, great job!

Re: Jarpa

Hi Ugur,

Did you try Jarpa? We received data via XML socket shorter than 1 second. I'm using a N95-1 with the latest firmware installed and everything is working fine.

Hi Mark, thanks a lot.

XMLSocket but exists on N95 8GB and N95 classic, both with latest firmware. I think it would worth to check this out.

Adobe Response

Hi,

Just to repeat my comments from Ugur's other blog.

1. We are working to find a solution for the sandbox issue that accommodates these standalone use-cases.

2. The XMLSocket bug was fixed a while ago, you should test against the latest firmware to confirm.

Mark
Adobe
Mobile and Devices

Thanks Mark! Think of us having a huge platform working with these problems and hoping that it's solved. I also very much hope someone is listening :)

Wow, those are real showstoppers!

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up. I have a couple of projects I'd really like to use a combination of C++ and Flash Lite and/or Java and Flash Lite for. I can't commit to doing either of them with Flash Lite unless these issues get fixed very quickly!

I hope someone is listening.

Mark