Qt Mobility on PlayBook

unrealdude24

I've been trying to get the sensor stuff with the Qt Mobility working for the PlayBook with the NDK 2,1. I'm using Qt version 4.8.3 which is the official version supported for the PlayBook. All the GUI and core Qt stuff works fine. When I try getting sensor data using Qt Mobility, I get the following error:

@QFactoryLoader::QFactoryLoader() looking at "/apps/com.example.QTPlaybook.testDev__QTPlaybookc87a03f1/native/lib/platforms/libblackberry.so"
keys ("blackberry")
QFile::setFileName: File (/dev/sensor/accel) is already opened
Starting sensor "/dev/sensor/accel" failed: "Unknown error"
Starting sensor "/dev/sensor/accel" failed: "Unknown error" @

I tried getting the accelerometer data using both QML and C++ methods and both results in the same error. As soon as I call start() on the QAccelerometer object, it gives me the error. I know the sensor plugin is added and can be referenced. I also know I can get the accelerometer data using native calls using the NDK so I know the sensor is functional.

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? any help is greatly appreciated

unrealdude24

Alright I resolved the above problem by ignoring the instructions on
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building-Qt4-for-BlackBerry
to use gitorious.org/+kdab-developers/qt-mobility/qnx-qt-mobility.git and compile git://gitorious.org/qt-mobility/qt-mobility.git instead. Maybe someone with access can update the wiki?

Now I can get the accelerometer data using QML. with no issues. But if I try getting it in C++ I get a segfault. The code I'm running is sample code:
@#include <QtCore>
#include <QAccelerometer>

QTM_USE_NAMESPACE

QAccelerometer *accelerometer;

class AccelerometerFilter : public QAccelerometerFilter
{
public:
bool filter(QAccelerometerReading *reading)
{
qDebug() << "acceleration: "
<< QString().sprintf("%0.2f %0.2f %0.2f",
reading->x(),
reading->y(),
reading->z());
return false; // don't store the reading in the sensor
}
};

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

QAccelerometer sensor;
accelerometer = &sensor;
AccelerometerFilter filter;
sensor.addFilter(&filter);
sensor.start();

if (!sensor.isActive()) {
    qWarning("Accelerometer didn't start!");
    return 1;
}

return app.exec();

}
@

And here is the stack trace:
@Thread [1] (Suspended : Signal : SIGSEGV:Segmentation fault)
0x0
QtMobility::QOrientableSensorBase::setCurrentOrientation() at qorientablesensorbase.cpp:199 0x780f408c
0x788de3c8
0x788de3c8
@

The code the segfault occurs in is
@void QOrientableSensorBase::setCurrentOrientation(int currentOrientation)
{
if (d->currentOrientation != currentOrientation) {
d->currentOrientation = currentOrientation;
emit currentOrientationChanged(currentOrientation); //SEGFAULT HERE
}
}@

Could use some help how to prevent the segfault

unrealdude24

OK. I found the issue. QAccelerometer can't be instantiated locally. It needs to be passed in a QObject pointer in its constructor. No more seg faults. The sensor readings are still however all 0's. The following is outputted to the console continuously:
@acceleration: "0.00 0.00 0.00" @

If I use QML method I get the correct values. So it must be something I'm doing wrong.

Here is the QML way that works:
@import QtQuick 1.1
import QtMobility.sensors 1.2
Rectangle {
id: root
color: "blue"
Accelerometer {
active: true
onReadingChanged: {
console.log("New reading: " + reading.x + "," + reading.y + "," + reading.z)
}
}
}@