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