Seit heute ist mein erster wirklich wohnzimmertauglicher VDR fertig geworden.

Features:

• DVB-C, alle Kanäle außer PayTV
• Timeshifting
• DVDs anschauen (alle
• DVDs brennen mit Menu
• 250 GB Platz für Filme

Eigentlich würde ich das ganze gerne noch etwas toppen, aber leider konnte ich die WLAN Verbindung mit WPA-PSK nicht stabil zum laufen bekommen, deshalb gibt es erstmal kein streaming auch auch keine mp3-Datenbank, weil ich für das CD einlesen Zugriff auf freedb benötigen würde. Aber was nicht ist kann ja noch werden!

The “–enable-api-atk=no” patch for gtkmm and glibmm was finished today. I hope this will make things easier on platfroms were atk does not really make sense like maemo. If you want to test it check out the patches in Bugzilla.

Until today, I had heared about m4 only that it is one of the so many special Unix tools of which I will never now exactly how they work or at least not completly. Unfortunately gtkmm uses a lot of m4 to generate the C++ code from it’s .hg and .ccg input files and I had to change some things to allow building without Atk.

So I found out that m4 is not that damn complicated and could after some manual reading easily archive the things that I wanted. Anyway, I also changed some code in *.pm files without knowing what language they use in detail. Seems like a quite easy scripting language but would be cool if someone could tell me.

The –disable-api-atk in gtkmm is much more difficult than I thought. I have to hack a lot on the code generation which means I first have to learn how all this works. I uses m4 and scripting and I have to find out in detail how to add #ifdefs to the signals that use ATK.

Renamed the hidonmm packages to the correct names as they were filed in the wrong folder of the repositry. I wonder if there is a way to delete the old ones.

Played around a bit with a “–disable-api-atk” option for gtkmm but did not succeed because some m4 macros obviously create code in a different scope meaning it is out of the #ifdefs.

Pesc|O made a nice patch to integrate ctags 5.6 in anjuta. It’s not yet finished but it looks promising. The guys from ctags event want to open up their development so I hope we can have a better integration and maybe a libctags soon.

The C++ support for Maemo is moving forward. Today, I have uploaded the packages for libhildon-fmmm and libhildon-widgetsmm which should allow to write complete maemo applications in C++ in theory.

You can get a copy of libanjutamm here: Libanjutamm CVS

A tarball of a sample C++ plugin which does not load because of GType issues is also availible
To use this, you need the CVS version of Anjuta and the gtkmm development packages installed. The best way, to test the plugin is to use the anjuta-shell test app in the src/ directory of anjuta CVS.

libanjutamm
Libanjutamm is slowly on the way. I have wrapped most important things excluding the interfaces and written a sample plugin which does not yet load because I have to fight more with the GType system. Anyway, I hope to finish this sample soon and write a script to automaticly wrap the interfaces. Happy C++ coding

gtkmm on maemo
The gtkmm package for 386 should be up now and I am working on the armel package which should be finished soon. Next is the packaging of hildonmm which should hopefully not be too difficult.

Update: gtkmm packages for armel have been uploaded!

Today, I built my first debian package. I still don’t fully understand how the whole mechanism works but at least I got good results by reusing the debian/ directory of an existing package as a starting point.

Naba made a great job and implemented a good auto-indent feature for anjuta, though the supported languages are only C, C++ and Java in the moment. Libanjuta is now a bit more wrapping friendly because I added “G_BEGIN_DECLS” and “G_END_DELCS” to all headers.

I am working on a libanjutamm. I follow the excellent instructions in the Gtkmm Documentation but I still have some problems. Anyway, I hope the nice guys at #c++ will be able to help me.