Rody commented in the "Philips Discontinues Pronto" Thread
[Link: pocket-lint.com] will not be coming I guess.....
Well luckily I was given the core code from Philips with the comment of "see what you can do with this". It took a few emails back and forth to realise what had just been given to me to work on.
I was told to stop development a few weeks ago until there was a clearer picture on "direction".. Umm well I didn't quite expect the outcome we got yesterday.
I can say it's possible and you don't need any special hardware:
- TSU9400, 9600, 9800
- must be sitting on the cradle
- you need to create custom pages
- limited to 9300 functionality (it should be possible to send RS232 and ip strings)
- custom graphics aren't possible but you can select colours for fonts and buttons.
- Currently setup for iPhone/iTouch but Android and "generic browser" support would be possible.
- Setup is still done in ProntoEdit (using Landscape mode)
A list of changes to the ProntoTeam were discussed to make this more seamless (and have support for images and a few other things) which I guess now we won't see.
ProntoEdit:
Here is a blank template showing how much area you have to work with for a standard browser and then what you’d see on full screen. The right grey box is for more buttons and they would appear under the left panel as you scroll down.
Here is one I prepared earlier :)
Elements can be position anywhere within the box, it figures out what is in which box and places accordingly.
You will also notice you can set the button colour and the text colour. These are positional as using some of the iphone CSS you can make it look much better. As downloading images from the Pronto isn’t possible hence no pretty graphics.. But you can still make it look quite good (see below).
Point your iPhone/iTouch/Safari browser to
hereThere is still a lot of work to do (like support multiple pages) but if there is interest for it I'm happy to continue developing it.
Will there be a fee? Yes
How much? Depends how long I spend pulling my hair out :)
And yes I do realise iPronto was an old pronto model!
Last edited by tenchi on October 31, 2010 20:37.