ANNOUNCE: Guikachu 0.3 "Attack of the Mutant Decidual Cells from Outer Space"

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

Dear users of both large and small computing tools,

A new release of Guikachu is available. It is a major improvement over
the previous releases: it includes the Form Editor.

About Guikachu
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Guikachu is a GNOME application for graphical editing of resource
files for PalmOS-based pocket computers (get it?). Check out
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ for up-to-date informations.

Catch it all from
http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/download/guikachu-0.3.tar.gz

About this release
------------------
Introducing the Form Editor: a GNOME Canvas-based visual editor for
form resources and widgets. You can see the effect of the changes of
widget parameters in real time rendered on a small, PalmOS
screen-sized rectangle. Please note that the form editor is _not_
pixel-perfect, so you should always test the final results on a
full-featured PalmOS emulator. Please don't file bug reports about
pixel problems: it is not a goal of Guikachu to be a 100% rendering
engine of PalmOS Form resoruces (it isn't even possible without using
PalmOS fonts, which I don't have the rights for).

The only currently supported form element is the text label
widget. However, now that the form/widget infrastructure is in place,
implementing more widgets will only be a matter of studying PalmOS
screenshots and figuring out how to draw something closely resembling it.

New features:
	* Support for Form resources
	* Form editor
	* Supported widgets: label
	* Trying to open an unaccessible or non-existant file no
	  longer creates a segmentation fault
	* Fixed error in loading of the `vendor' property of
	  application resources
	* Keyboard navigation in the main window: enter opens up the
	  property editor, delete removes resource
	* Miniscule UI tweaks
	* Translations (in alphabetical order): de (Christian Meyer),
	  hu (me), ru (Valek Flippinov), sv (Christian Rose), tr
	  (Ozgur Dogan Gunes)

Due to a bug in the current release, you can only open the property
editor for widgets from the widget tree (double click on a tree item on
page 2 of the form editor window). This will likely get fixed in the next
release.


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.
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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