Python extension works in emulator but not on device...

[hurenkam]

Hi,


For my application ( http://tracker-py.googlecode.com ) I occasionally run into symbian API's not being available in PyS60. Sometimes existing modules can be found to fix this problem, but now with the 1.9.x development, many of them need recompilation and sources are sometimes hard to track down.

Anyway, I thought it is about time for me to dive into extension writing myself, and have developed a little module I call 'properties' which basically wraps the RProperty interface into something that can be used from PyS60.
The code can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/tracker-py/...properties.cpp

So far, I've implemented a version that works with EInt type properties. On the emulator I got everything working as expected, however, when running on the target, importing the module seems to cause pys60 to exit without any messages.
Strangely enough, when I remove references to the CPropertyNotifier class (basically commenting out lines 16-85 and 171-174) it does work as expected on the device, but then I have crippled the Subscribe function.

Could someone shed some light on this for me? I'm really puzzled since this works fine on the emulator, and I don't understand how adding the mentioned code could cause an error during the import of the module... I would expect things to go wrong only after calling the subscribe function, or when an event triggers the callback...


Regards,
Mark.

P.S.
This happens on both 1.9.4 and 1.9.5 builds of PyS60.

[mahesh.sayibabu]

One way to get clues for the crash is by using tools that show the panic code when applications crash.

[hurenkam]

One way to get clues for the crash is by using tools that show the panic code when applications crash.

Ok, fair enough.
However, I'm rather new to development of Python extensions, so do you have any suggestions on what tool I could use? And how I can get the phone to show the panic code? Do I need to build my own python core & interactive shell to achieve this?

Mark.

[aaaaapo]

And how I can get the phone to show the panic code?

Try to find ErrRd.SIS and install it into your phone.

If I recall right it just installs some magically named empty file somewhere in your phone's memory and after reboot your phone starts popping up those panic codes.

[hurenkam]

Try to find ErrRd.SIS and install it into your phone.

If I recall right it just installs some magically named empty file somewhere in your phone's memory and after reboot your phone starts popping up those panic codes.

Ok, that gives me some info:
Application closed:
PythonScriptShell
KERN-EXEC 3

Well, I guess that's a start ;-)


Mark.