MoStack : A free & unique database app for UIQ 2
Heh, this is kinda unexpected because I seldom write about UIQ 2 however, when something good appears, it deserves to be mentioned in this blog and some appreciation must be given to the developer. MoStacks is a data management freeware for the SonyEricsson P800, P900 and P910i Symbian/UIQ2 smartphones inspired by Apple’s then-revolutionary HyperCard program. It’s developed by Rene Brunner who described himself as “a lone bedroom coder, and MoStack as a labor of love that gobbled up most of 2 years worth of spare time“… That’s something!
The Mo in MoStacks stands for mobile: The application has the ambition to be the first that brings HyperCard-like data management to mobile phones, starting with Symbian/UIQ2 smartphones, namely the SonyEricsson P800, P900 and P910i models.
Those phones with their relatively large touchscreens are well suited for viewing data, but for setting up a database and entering large amounts of data a PC is a much better tool. That’s why MoStacks consists of two programs, a Windows program for stack development on the PC, and a Symbian/UIQ program for viewing and small-scale data entry tasks on the phone. There is support for easy and fast transfers of stacks between PC and phone.
A special card design philosophy allows stacks to adapt to different screen sizes, which will become important on future phone models with larger screens.
MoStacks offers a script language, again inspired by HyperCard’s HyperTalk language. While only implementing a small subset of HyperTalk so far, it already allows to add considerable “intelligence” to stacks.
MoStacks is neither a web server nor a true wiki engine, but it nevertheless offers WikiText features like links, paragraphs and text formatting in special wiki fields.
Multimedia support so far is limited to pictures, but the basic architecture is well prepared to deal with sound and movies as well in the future.
It’s free and it’s good to be used on UIQ 2 smartphones. Get it from http://www.mostacks.com/
Hope this useful software will be ported to UIQ 3.0 soon. Let me know if it has been done. Thanks.
I was just about to write the same thing, Kamal!
It’s a pity that the program does not port itself to UIQ3 all on its own
And it’s quite a lot of code, as you can imagine.
On the other side, I had a good start so far with UIQ3 (it does not hurt as much as expected), as you might see with TouchCalc, but still…
I think especially Asri would love for you to port it