Guikachu 1.0.1 ============== 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. File I/O is implemented via 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 GNOMEmm 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. The build process is only tested on the GCC 3.0 compiler family, but is known to work with the 2.95 line as well. EGCS in particular is known to have problems (consider upgrading to at least GCC 2.95). Installation ------------ Untar the Guikachu source tarball somewhere, and start 'make': $ tar xzvf guikachu-1.0.1.tar.gz $ cd guikachu-1.0.1 $ ./configure 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Guikachu (it will try to check for required files on startup, but it has no way of detecting the Glade file being out of date) Features -------- * libXML-based I/O * Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H) * String resources * Dialog resources * Menu resources * Form resources * Per-application resources (e.g. version number) * WYSIWYG Form Editor, with drag & drop capability * 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) Reporting bugs -------------- (and good feature/UI/whatever ideas) Please use the GNOME Bugzilla (accesible at http://bugzilla.gnome.org) to file bug reports and feature requests. Detailed instructions are available on the page. If you find the Bugzilla interface too complicated, just email directly our mailing list at guikachu-main@lists.sourceforge.net. Contact information ------------------- The Guikachu website is located at http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ The mailing list for both users and contributors is accessable at http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/guikachu-main You can also mail the author directly, at cactus@cactus.rulez.org. About this release ------------------ This release fixes some guikachu2rcp bugs, found by Havard Wigtil.
