Porting to Maemo is fun

My two unique holidays weeks this year are being busy. Some party with friends, good sessions of one of my hobbies (maemo development), a well-deserved rest and even sport.

In the last days I have been porting some applications to the Internet Tablets.
Firstly, the most bored application for the users (but I like more ), EasyChem.
EasyChem is an application to draw chemical molecules in 2D. It’s a very simple app but that do very well its function. It can export to .fig and .eps. I will try add a .png exporter.

Though I am a python guy (and not very good at it) and I never learnt C, I have come to a point that I can read C code, and even I can write some GTK and Hildon in C code (but not too much). So with little effort I hildonized EasyChem and now it’s perfectly integrated in maemo: hildon window, menus, fullscreen, filechooser dialogs and so on.

You can download it from the extras repository in your application manager or in its downloads page in maemo.org: Easychem

Another available application in the extras repository now is Hex-a-hop. Hex-a-hop is a very funny puzzle game.

I have got the debian sources and I added a few modifications by pipeline (he was the first one who ported this game to the tablets and put it in Internet Tablet Talk). I modified the icons to the sizes used in maemo, the desktop file, and added a couple of code lines in order that it had an icon in the task navigator. And so it was to the extras repository. My next challenge is add sound to the game.

Try it, it’s very addictive: Hex-a-hop for OS2008

I am just uploading versions for OS2007 and OS2006 for both apps, so it will be available in few hours.

umm, cookies

Do you like cookies? I like cookies and I like cook cookies.

Yes, I like cook very much and I like to have my recipes always to hand, but the paper is already gone out of fashion, so I wrote a new application to manage my cooking recipes in the Internet Tablet.

And today I have released Pyrecipe’s first version. It can create, edit and show recipes. Actually it can import recipes in the Gourmet and Krecipes formats. It can export to HTML, Gourmet, Krecipes and Mealmaster formats. More formats are coming.

It has other functions as Timer, where you will be able to control the time you are cooking.
Also it has a small Shopping List. It has a basic interface, with options to add, to delete and to mark items. You can save shopping lists in a file to open them in another moment.

Pyrecipe is in beta state yet. Actually it only run in OS2008. Soon it will support previous versions.
If you want to try it, you can install pyrecipe pressing in this arrow in your Internet Tablet browser:

It will add the extras-devel catalogue with beta software to your application manager. I recommend that after installing pyrecipe you should deactivate this catalogue. You can do it with the following way:

• Go to the application manager.
• Menu ->Tools -> Application catalogue.
• Search the ‘maemo Extras Devel’ catalogue and select it.
• Press Edit button.
• Check Disable.
• OK and Close, and it’s all.

I would receive charmed comments about the application as well as international recipes or even a lunch invite