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 :P), 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.
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Very nice!
All this is very nice but… are you comming to the Maemo Summit or not?
Works fine on IT2006 aka Gregale. Can confirm the game is addictive. Require help on level four.
Some suggestions for UI improvement for non N810/bluetooth keyboard users:
map the “undo/go back” hard button as the undo instead of the “fullscreen/non-fullscreen” hard button.
map the “menu” hard button as the menu instead of the “undo” hard button.
Basically map the hard buttons to their obvious functions. Pressing the “Undo/go back” button should undo a move, pressing the menu button should bring up the resume/restart/options/access game map/whatever menu, and pressing the full screen/not full screen button should change the setting of the fullscreen option buried under options. A quicker way to cleanly exit would be apreciated but is not necessary. I was able to cleanly exit by going back to the game map screen and pressing the undo/go back button to get to the start screen and then choosing the exit game option.
Quim, I would like will be there indeed, but this year I cannot. I have a very special wedding on the 20th and cannot be in two places simultaneously
But the next year save me a site because I will be there for sure.
Joseph, thanks.
Yes, it all has sense. I only remapped the undo function. Next version will have a better mapping of the keys and hopefully with sounds.
Hex-a-Pop is so cool. I would say the smoothness of the game is among the best on Maemo…
Nice, this Easychem program. Now, how can I add the different atoms? So far I can only draw lines.
Magao, with the dropdown menu to choose the different types of bonds, the last option is ‘Atoms’, choose that option, and click where you want add the atom. It will show a dialog, in that dialog you can write the atom or group of atoms in the text entry, choose the size, color, etc.
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