Visited the Jain temple

On the occassion of ending day of Jains' festival of "paryushan" we went to the temple at Aagapura (IIRC). The group included Abhay, Arpit, Rishab, Chaitanya and me. We took some photographs also.

The temple is a good/big one, with lots of pratimas, we were all excited by the idea of going to temple once in so long time. So the trip was more enjoyable. We also got addresses of other Jain temples in Hyderabad so we will think of visiting them soon.

Linear Algebra class test 2

It was again a sorrowful event for me, this time it was the worst ever as I had not ever clear understanding of the topics that were prerequisit for understanding the questions. I seriously think that sir will get annoyed by the crap that I have written.

Yesterday I got interested in reading the EJB pdf by Nova, Which looks to be a very good book to me, kept cutting time for the test and finally got screwed up today. Another great cause of disturbance was not being able to talk to any family member on phone.

Today we will have some discussion on our PR project.

Also I will give some project proposals to the PG guys for the ITWS1a course. Let see what turns up!!!

Campus Green Club Campus Roundup

We had a campus roundup organized by Campus Green Club, lead by Faculty Coordinator Dr PJN and Mrs Narayana. More reports and photographs are available at this link

It was a nice trip overall, many other ppl have expressed there desire to join us in the next trip. Let see how big the next trip comes out to be.

Finally for first app running on Symbian OS

Thanks to all fellows at the forum.nokia.com who have helped me a lot with all their answers specially sopta007 and symbianyucca.

I learnt some new things in all this exercise.
0) You need to change the target build through Project->Options, incase you want to make a deployable file for the hardware use the option armib release. For emulator Winsb options are used. You now need to make, it will do the processing then, like creating various intermediate and target files.
1) Basically a .aif file is needed by a application to show up on the main application menu in Symbian OS.
2) Since the software aif builder failed in creating all of the components( with the wierd error mesg "cpp.exe has terminated with error code 2" ), I manually created the AIF file for my project by copying format from an example.
3) Anyway the tool was good help for creating the .rss file in the directory which I set as output for the aif generation.
4) Some data that need to be given in AIF builder is the application UID which is the uid that tool provides in the .mmp file in the line.
UID 0x100039CE 0x101F5462
Now on I will use Red to mean something that is changed/need to be changed by me/programmer.
5) I have created a AIFdirectory in same level as Group, in this directory basically I copied the RSS file available in another application, it looked like this on after making the changes I named it CamTimerAIF.rss (used later).


#include

RESOURCE AIF_DATA
{
app_uid = 0x101F5462;
caption_list=
{
CAPTION
{
code = ELangEnglish;
caption = "CamTimer";
}
};
num_icons = 1;
embeddability=KAppNotEmbeddable;
newfile=KAppDoesNotSupportNewFile;
}

// End of File


Most probably the colored things are the one that you might need to change based on you application.
6) Note that the MMP file contains some information like

// Creates Mbm file.
START BITMAP CamTimer.mbm
HEADER
TARGETPATH \system\apps\CamTimer
SOURCEPATH ..\aif
SOURCE C12 CamTimer.bmp
END

AIF CamTimer.aif ..\aif CamTimerAif.rss c12 camTimer.bmp camTimer_mask.bmp

I have mostly modified data from an example to my needs, will diagonse more later on what things might mean here.
7) For this AIF directory had the fiels camtimer.bmp and camtimer_mask.bmp copied from the directory which contained the output of the NOKIA SDK tool used for creating image.
8) The PKG file looked like this at the end of the exercise.

; targetapp (CamTimer)
; target directory \Symbian\Series60_1_2_B\epoc32\release\armi\urel; Header
#{"CamTimer"},(0x101F5462),1,0,0,TYPE=SISAPP

;Supports Series 60 v 0.9
;This line indicates that this installation is for the Series 60 platform v0.9
;This line must appear _exactly_ as shown below in the sis file
;If this line is missing or incorrect, the sis file will not be able
;to be installed on Series 60 v0.9 platforms
(0x101F6F87), 0, 0, 0, {"Series60ProductID"}

; mmpfile: camtimer.mmp
; targets
; target: CamTimer.app
"\Symbian\Series60_1_2_B\epoc32\release\armi\urel\CamTimer.app"-"!:\system\apps\CamTimer\CamTimer.app"
; resources
; resource: ..\src\camtimer.rss
"\Symbian\Series60_1_2_B\epoc32\release\armi\urel\camtimer.rsc"-"!:\system\apps\CamTimer\camtimer.rsc"
; bitmaps
; bitmaps: CamTimer.mbm
"\Symbian\Series60_1_2_B\epoc32\release\armi\urel\CamTimer.mbm"-"!:\system\apps\CamTimer\CamTimer.mbm"
; languages
; aif files
"\Symbian\Series60_1_2_B\epoc32\release\armi\urel\CamTimer.aif"-"!:\system\apps\CamTimer\CamTimer.aif"

; end of pkg file

the tool Borland C++ Builder 6, with mobile produced automatically.

Finally you use the option Project->Make a Symbian Installation System. to get the sis made. In case the tool ask you to overwrite the pkg file in most cases you can allow it to do it, I make the pkg file with the information provided in the mmp files. In my case the final pkg generated by the tool contained information about the mmp file and aif file automatically, that is quite good I will say.

PR Exams and Some mishaps

Really had a very time imagining about how much I will have to pay for the USB device (dongle) that I lost during the B'day Celebration of Amal Raj.
Spoil quite some time yesterday searching for it, ignoring the scarcity of time we had for our PR exam. There were already many mails on the mailing list regarding postponement of the Exam. Except for 2 ppl most were desperate for some extention at the least.

Finally in the class today sir postponed it for indefinite time. It will be only after LA test on 5 Oct. Also the great thing that happened today was getting back the USB dongle (It fell on the floor of the roof).

We have opted for the project of "Tracking of Face in a Video". My Team members are Jagmohan and Sandeep. Finally Jagmohan agreed on doing face recognition project after sir discussed about this in the class.

Yesterday We submitted the name of the 50 students and 3 faculty members to IBM Linux Campus Club stuff.

That all, running for the Systems Thinking class now. I plan to do some assignment and paper correction of Middleware and Networks in the free time tomorrow as We won't be by any change going to LINDEC.