N97 Emulator in SDK issue

[raf1hh]

Hi All,

Has anybody noticed that the N97 emulator window in portrait is too big for common laptop resolutions (1280x800). On my laptop only 3/4 of the phone is visible and the rest is off-screen (the window does not provide scroll bars).

Anyhow, I thought I would mitigate this by creating a new skin that just displays the main phone display and the three buttons with the rest of the default skin removed. It works, but I have run into an issue where if I configure the epoc.ini with my skin config, the configuration switcher stops working in the emulator.

What I can't figure out is that in default installation there are four skins configured but only two of those are visible in preferences and only two are "switchable"

Original config:

MegabytesOfFreeMemory 58
configuration epoc_640x360_touch_qwerty.ini
configuration epoc_360x640_touch_keypadoff.ini
configuration epoc_360x640_touch_keypadoff_f.ini
configuration epoc_640x360_touch_qwerty_f.ini
LogToDebugger 1
PlatSecDiagnostics ON
PlatSecEnforceSysBin ON
PlatSecProcessIsolation ON
PlatSecEnforcement OFF
PlatSecDisabledCaps NONE
LogToFile 1
JustInTime none
_EPOC_DRIVE_D \epoc32\winscw\d
_EPOC_DRIVE_E
_EPOC_LocDrv_1
MultiMediaCardSize=16000
patchdata_apserv_dll_KApaLoadDataRecognizersOnDemand 1
etel_KPriorityClientSid 0x100058B3
SYMBIAN_GRAPHICS_USE_WSERV2 ON
WindowTitle Nokia N97 SDK v0.5

after I modified the epoc.ini with config to my skin it looks like this:

MegabytesOfFreeMemory 68
configuration epoc_small_portrait.ini
configuration epoc_640x360_touch_qwerty.ini
LogToDebugger 1
PlatSecDiagnostics ON
PlatSecEnforceSysBin ON
PlatSecProcessIsolation ON
PlatSecEnforcement OFF
PlatSecDisabledCaps NONE
LogToFile 1
JustInTime none
_EPOC_DRIVE_D \epoc32\winscw\d
_EPOC_DRIVE_E
_EPOC_LocDrv_1
MultiMediaCardSize=16000
patchdata_apserv_dll_KApaLoadDataRecognizersOnDemand 1
etel_KPriorityClientSid 0x100058B3
SYMBIAN_GRAPHICS_USE_WSERV2 ON
WindowTitle Nokia N97 SDK v0.5

My skin is working and both skins are visible in preferences BUT the switcher is not working.

So the questions are as follows:
1. Why are only two skins visible even though four are configured in original config?
2. Why does the switcher stop working when specifying custom config?

Hope somebody can shed some light on this issue as the alternative is to change the default skin and restart the emulator whenever the need arises to switch from portrait to landscape.

Thanks

Raf

[bogdan.galiceanu]

This might not be the best place to ask this. There's a forum for general discussion and one for feedback on tools that you could use since this has nothing to do with Python...

[sam_bakki]

Hi Raf,
I have re posted your question here: http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=170909 and it is answered by our team member. You may pls continue your discusion in the above thread.

[raf1hh]

I have posted a new small skin file for anybody having the same issue:

http://www.bdcsoftware.com/blog/entr..._Emulator_Skin

This will allow you to work with the emulator in portrait mode on screens with 1280x800 resolution (it might work on 1024x768 but I haven't tested it).

Raf