New Frontend for Windows and Linux

**RoyN** · 07-11-2005, 09:29 PM

I dont want to run a full vmware, that is out of the question... if I have to do that than I'll just run a dedicated windows carpc... no advantage from running linux...

if we can get wine or soemthing to run freedrive quickly enough and it works well than that is a different storry...

**forevertheuni** · 07-12-2005, 08:34 AM

lol sure..if I get mapmonkey to work

that's the prob..they don't make the .so's for linux....infomap navigator works..but I thinks the .so is not avaiable too

**gbr** · 07-12-2005, 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by forevertheuni

aahhh

what about the linux version?lool

I actually run the linux version. Right now there is a problem with alpha blending the png files under linux. Once I have that done (this week), I'll post a linux version. (Statically linked, so the executable will be big)

Gerald

**forevertheuni** · 07-12-2005, 12:39 PM

hmm you aren't giving the source?btw can u put a GPS button to embedd in the frontend a choosen aplication?

**gbr** · 07-12-2005, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by forevertheuni

hmm you aren't giving the source?btw can u put a GPS button to embedd in the frontend a choosen aplication?

Hi,

1. Source eventually, prob GPL. It's not quite ready for the world.
2. The default skin has a GPS button, but the code doesn't have it link to anything yet (and it's commented out in the screen.ini file)

**NoPistonPC** · 07-13-2005, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by gbr

If anybody knows how to force mplayer to use different audio cards and displays under Windows

Did you ever figure this out? For HeadUnit I created my own cross-platform wrapper for DirectShow (in windows) and xine (in linux) to handle the hardware better in both OS's. But, it would be nicer if we could just use MPlayer on both platforms. The problem I had with it is that it has relatively poor support in Windows. Hopefully, it will improve soon.

**gbr** · 07-14-2005, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by NoPistonPC

Did you ever figure this out? For HeadUnit I created my own cross-platform wrapper for DirectShow (in windows) and xine (in linux) to handle the hardware better in both OS's. But, it would be nicer if we could just use MPlayer on both platforms. The problem I had with it is that it has relatively poor support in Windows. Hopefully, it will improve soon.

It is improving all the time. The first thing I'd like is proper window position, at least then I could hard code window positions for video.

**gbr** · 07-15-2005, 11:15 AM

Bump - for updates (new download and linux version, see message # 1 in this thread)

**pkg** · 07-16-2005, 05:12 PM

hey, this is pretty good, nice and clean

to get this up and running in debian there were a couple of things that I needed.

I had to make some library links (requires xlibs-static-dev package).

# ld --whole-archive -share -o /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXxf86vm.a

# ld --whole-archive -share -o /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.a

I had to install the libsqlite0-dev and the libsqlite0 packages.

thanks for the FE to play with till my programmer gets off of vacation

**pkg** · 07-16-2005, 06:20 PM

so i am playing with your app here and have some questions on how to get it going:

How do i build the sqlite db?

What is the syntax to set up the GPS application link in the carpc.ini file?

[GPS]
???=gpsdrive

thanks