Unofficial Qt Environment (and Sudoku) For the Kindle 36
An anonymous reader writes "I've just posted packages for installing a Qt-based platform on the Kindle 2 and DX devices, and a Sudoku game to go along with it. The Qt-based platform includes plugins I wrote for the e-ink display, the keyboard, and the five-way joystick thing — so it's a fully interactive and usable environment now. Soon I'll be adding a sample app with source code to go along with it."
Does it do anything for refresh rate? (Score:5, Interesting)
I checked a Kindle out of my college library and the WhisperNet browser was better than I had expected. I set up a textarea form on my server, and tested taking notes with it.
The only problem was that each letter would appear on its own refresh cycle (at about 1Hz). While it took me 51 seconds to type out a short paragraph, the K2 was locked up for another 60 seconds while each letter appeared one after the other.
It was clear that the string was saved to a buffer (because I *didn't* have to wait for each letter to appear before typing the next), and I know the refresh rate is just a limitation of e-ink, but it seems an alternative environment could display multiple characters with each refresh.