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DS development > Couple questions..

#103087 - Threemo - Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:19 am

Alright.. I've been looking into homebrew for some time now..
And I was wondering, what kind of coding should I learn, if I want to get into it myself?

Also, would it be easy to make something to view pictures on?

Something like the Opera Browser..

You have the full view on the touch screen..
And a magnified view on the top screen, of the area you have selected with the stylus.

(sorry, I'm a n00b.. >_> )
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#103091 - josath - Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:05 am

Threemo wrote:
Alright.. I've been looking into homebrew for some time now..
And I was wondering, what kind of coding should I learn, if I want to get into it myself?

C or C++ are the most supported. If you're adventurous, you can also use ARM ASM, Python, Lua, or Forth. Though I wouldn't recommend it, as they are much used, and it will be harder to get help.
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Also, would it be easy to make something to view pictures on?

Yes, you could make a picture viewer.

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Something like the Opera Browser..

Making a graphical web browser would be very difficult

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You have the full view on the touch screen..
And a magnified view on the top screen, of the area you have selected with the stylus.

But if you just want a picture viewer, which views a single picture at a time, that's a good project for a beginner.

#103098 - tepples - Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:48 am

Threemo wrote:
Alright.. I've been looking into homebrew for some time now..
And I was wondering, what kind of coding should I learn, if I want to get into it myself?

If you don't already know C well, I'd suggest learning C on your computer using GCC and the Allegro library before you branch out to the GBA and Nintendo DS.

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Also, would it be easy to make something to view pictures on?

Something like the Opera Browser..

You have the full view on the touch screen..
And a magnified view on the top screen, of the area you have selected with the stylus.

Something like DSOrganize's picture viewer?
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#103110 - PypeBros - Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:12 am

if i had to do a webbrowser on the DS, i think i'd use a few characters to show "there is a picture here that i didn't rendered" and let the user click the small icon to see the picture "fullscreen" on the upper screen ... with a keypress, you'd dismiss the picture and go back to double-screen of HTML.
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#103170 - Threemo - Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:52 pm

No, no.. Just a picture viewer.
I was just using the browser as an example. >_<

But thanks! I'll begin trying my hand at the coding soon. :P
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