Accidentally i discoverd wxGlade being installed on my EeePc. Since i knew wx is some kind of toolkit for creating gui’s i tested it. And… wow!
Its great to create some kind of raw mask for your application. Even it threw some errors first (had to correct some mistakes in the generated Perl code) it creates quite clean code.
I will use it for my Jukebox Project, in which i made a major step forward today: Sound works. Okay, not good, i have to dump mpg123 stdout to /dev/dsp via pipe, anything else doesnt work, but anyway, i have sound (Alice Cooper was the first song 
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Another thing: I had to search like hours for a useful documentation for wxperl. Maybe useful for others: wxWidgets Doc is useful even for wxperl.
Ahh, and I set up a SVN Repo today. I will post further information if some useful software finds its way to it.
I spend my weekend doing several things:
- Chilling with some pals (and a PS³ and a subwoofer greater than my 22″ lcd)
- Watching Scrubs (Season 1 to 5)
- Setting up Debian on a battery-damaged non USB bootable non cdrom drive Fujitsu Biblo B112 Lifebook
Since it was just capable of booting from floppy i had to use the debian floppies. After like 2-3 Hours with errors like (attention: keyword!) pcmcia: unknown symbol release_firmware etc. I switched from Debian Lenny Install Floppies to Etch. And hooray, it works!
But its annoying to do a dist-upgrade to lenny with a 10mbit nic, a 233mhz cpu and 160Megs of stupid slow SDRAM. Anyway, it runs with Fluxbox.
The touchscreen (its like the grandfather of a hybride of the GeCube Genie Senior and my EeePC) is hard to configure, if anyone knows a good calibration gui, please tell me 
So, I plan to use it as a jukebox for parties. Therefore I need the following:
- A way to disable gui stuff for closing windows, maximising them, almost everything.
- An audioplayer which has the following features:
- Comfortable Song Index which can be used only with touchscreen
- Queueing songs in a queue
- A Perl API? (That would be… greatest)
- Lightweight
If you have any idea to solve my issues, please drop me a comment.
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