Re: Guikachu 0.8 "The devil's in the widgets" - PalmOS resource fileeditor for GNOME

[Chris Hardy <chris hardys org>]

Thanks for providing this wonderful tool!


ERDI Gergo wrote:
> 
> Dear users of both large and small computing tools,
> 
> A new release of Guikachu is available.
> 
> About Guikachu
> --------------
> Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
> files for PalmOS-based pocket computers. It is written by Gergő Érdi
> <cactus cactus rulez org>. Check out
> http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ for up-to-date informations.
> 
> Catch it all from http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/
> 
> About this release
> ------------------
> This release marks another important step on the road towards 1.0: the
> form editor user interface is now actually usable for more than 2
> minutes :).
> Actually, 1.0.0 is only three widgets away with the two new widgets
> implemented in this release. I think a 1.0.0 after 2 or 3 more
> releases seems realistic -- see the heavily restructured TODO if you
> are really interested.
> 
> New features:
>         * New supported widgets: List, Popup trigger
>         * Separate palette window (much like Glade), new widgets are
>           created by first clicking the icon in the palette and then
>           placing it in a previously opened Form's preview area.
>         * Startup segfault fix (with help from Dave Fullon). I have no
>           idea why the previous version worked at all...
>         * Updated translations: az (Ozgur), hu (me), ru (Valek),
>           wa (Pablo)
> 
> Guikachu uses GTK-- and GNOME-- for its user interface. File I/O is
> implemented with the libxml package. Dialog windows are loaded via
> libglade. 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.
> 
> Beware of bugémons!
> 
>         Cactus
> 
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