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qt5-kobo-platform-plugin

Original by Rain92, thanks for the magic.

A Qt5 platform backend plugin for Kobo E-Ink devices.

Supports:

  • E-Ink screen refresh control,
  • Touchscreen support

Deleted by InkBox project:

  • Button input management - Managed by IPD
  • frontlight control - Managed by higher level software and IPD
  • WiFi management - Managed by InkBox
  • Other functions

Added:

  • Full support for keyboard and mouse (working good)
  • this cool readme
  • Qt Creator support
  • Repaired rotation

At runtime an app using this plugin can be configurend with the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM.
The following parameters are supported:

  • debug - enables additional debug output
  • logicaldpitarget= - enables high dpi scaling
  • keyboard - enables keyboard support
  • mouse - enables keyboard support
  • motiondebug - enabled additional debug - focused on movement / refreshing. Mainly for mouse

For example:

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=kobo:debug:logicaldpitarget=108:keyboard:mouse:motiondebug ./myapp

Cross-compile for Kobo

See https://github.com/Rain92/UltimateMangaReader https://github.com/Szybet/niAudio/blob/main/apps-on-kobo/qt-setup.md

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