Pikachu

GUIKACHU 1.3.4 Guikachu 1.3.4 ============== 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. Check out http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ for up-to-date information. Requirements ------------ Guikachu uses GTKmm and GNOMEmm for its user interface. I/O is implemented via GNOME-VFS, the XML storage format is managed with 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 GNOMEmm which you will need to upgrade to version 1.2.3). 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. The build process is only tested with the GCC 3.x compiler family. There has been reports of issues with the virtual inheritance code when using older versions of GCC (e.g. 2.95). Installation ------------ Untar the Guikachu source tarball somewhere, and start the 'configure' script: $ tar xzvf guikachu-1.3.4.tar.gz $ cd guikachu-1.3.4 $ ./configure * make See the INSTALL file for general help on using the `configure' script. If everything is just fine, you can install and try it $ make install $ guikachu If you start Guikachu and it segfaults when you try to open any window, it is an indication of guikachu.glade not propertly installed. Please re-install Guikachu (it will try to check for required files on startup, but it has no way of detecting the Glade file being out of date) Features -------- * Uses GNOME-VFS, you can load files from anywhere, e.g. from the Web, from an ESMB share, from a tarball. * Exporting to PilRC .rcp files * Support for non-Palm PilRC targets (like the eBookMan) * Support for the following PalmOS resource types: - 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, cut & paste, and visual resizing * Flexible, complete undo support * Sample file with sample GNU PalmOS SDK-based application * Documentation (a complete user's manual) About this release ------------------ This release is part of the 1.3 development branch, so it's all about crazy experimentations and nto about providing a polished, well-tested product -- so don't quite replace your 1.2 Guikachu just yet. After I had to stop working on Guikachu due to time constraints, I return with a new release containing two new major features: cut & paste and widget layouting commands. Both are available in the right-click menu of the form editor. Some bugs also got fixed. Note that you will need version 1.2.4 of GNOME--, which contains a new feature used by Guikachu.