Guikachu 0.9 "Second Impact keeps being late" - PalmOS resource file editor for GNOME

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

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. The user interface is
modelled after Glade, the GNOME UI builder.

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

Features
--------
* Exporting to PilRC .rcp files (compile with pilrc -H)
* String resources
* Dialog resources
* Menu resources
* Form resources
* Per-application resources (e.g. version number, icon)
* Form editor (with support for every widget but Table, Entry
  and Gadget) with graphical drag & drop capability to make
  designing forms more easier and faster
* Native font support in the form editor for more precise
  preview
* XSLT style sheets to generate RCP files from Guikachu
  documents

About this release
------------------
Nearly a whole month has passed since 0.8, and this month marked a
complete rewrite and redesign of a lot of internals. Properties are
now implemented as proper, template-based C++ classes instead of the
evil preprocessor magic used before. Common properties (like "width"
and "height", or "text" and "font") are now grouped in abstract
utility classes, which will also form the basis, in the future, of
point & click resizing of widgets.

This great release also sports bugfixes and new features, including a
complete range of XSLT style sheets for all the supported widgets.

There is also mailing list for both users and contributors of
Guikachu. Subscribe or browse the archives at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/guikachu-main.

New features:
	* An experimental RPM spec file
	* New supported widget: Scroll bar
	* LibGlade widgets are now properly destroyed -- this fixes a
	  lot of mysterious segmentation faults reported by some users
	* Keyboard shortcuts are added to (nearly?) every property
	  editor, allowing you to work faster.
	* Exporting and then saving a project no longer overwrites the
	  RCP file with the Guikachu document
	* The included XSLT style sheet covers every implemented
	  widget to enable you to create RCP files from Guikachu
	  documents without running Guikachu itself
	* Fixed some potential memory leaks (I don't know if the leak
	  actually happened in real life) in property editors
	* Explicitly marked the non-use of C++ exceptions to
	  (theoretically) speed up compiling
	* A *huge* reorganization of Form Editor internals. This is
	  something that you as an end-user will not notice, but it
	  will allow other nice things (like graphical resizing of
	  widgets) to be implemented in future versions.
	* New translations: ca (Softcatalŕ)

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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