Guikachu 1.1.4 "...and all I got was this lousy 12-carat uncut diamond": GNOME Resource editor for PalmOS projects

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

Dear users of both large and small computing tools,

A new development release of Guikachu is available.
 
About Guikachu
--------------
Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.

Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/

Features
--------
 * libXML-based I/O
 * Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H)
 * Support for non-PalmOS PilRC targets (like the eBookMan)
 * String and string list resources
 * Dialog resources
 * Menu resources
 * Form resources
 * Per-application resources (e.g. version number)
 * WYSIWYG Form Editor, with drag & drop capability and visual resizing
 * XSLT style sheets and shell script to generate RCP files from
   Guikachu documents
 * Sample file with sample GNU PalmOS SDK-based application
 * Documentation (a complete user's manual)

About these releases
--------------------
Visual resizing is implemented! This is something that was planned
from the very beginning, but I'm very proud of it: it required a huge
infrastructure to implement it rather cleanly.
This new feature also made it painfully obvious that the current
rendering model can slow things down insanely, so this was somewhat
fixed by creating the widget previews in an idle handler by queueing
changes.

Detailed list of changes:

	* WYSIWYG resizing of widgets in the Form Editor (not 100%
	  completed yet, see the TODO file)
	* Rendering speed-up when moving widgets
	* Checkboxes are properly drawn when manual width is specified
	* The included sample application uses the new PalmOS 3.5 SDK
	  and PRCTools 2.0
	
Note that 1.1.x is the development series. Bugs may occur, the
documentation may not be in sync with the real features, build may
fail. Download the latest 1.0 release for serious use.

Guikachu uses GTK-- and GNOME-- for its user interface. File I/O is
implemented via the libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via
libglade. GConf is used to store user preferences. You will need the
versions of these packages available in the GNOME 1.4 bundle (with the
exception of GNOME-- which you will need to upgrade to version 1.2.0)
To actually create the PalmOS resource files, you will also need PilRC
(part of the GNU PalmOS SDK) to compile the .rpc files produced by
Guikachu.
To use the stand-alone Guikachu-to-RCP converter program, xsltproc
(part of the libxslt package) is required.


Beware of bugémons!

        Cactus

-- 
   .--= ULLA! =----------------------.   `We are not here to give users what
   \    http://cactus.rulez.org       \   they want'  -- RMS, at GUADEC 2001
    `-----= cactus cactus rulez org =--'
Anything that can go wroSegmentation fault (core dumped)