From: Bob M. <mce...@dr...> - 2001-12-12 16:24:41
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Steven Hartley [ste...@ma...] wrote: > Hello Bob, I was looking all over the place for software=20 > that will communicate with the MiniJam under Linux and I=20 > stumbled across your great software. I just wanted to know=20 > if there are any plans to build a GUI for the application=20 > to make it more user friendly? > Please let me know, I'm be interested in helping out.=20 I had not planned on it. In fact I have stopped using my minijam. Between= the visor getting grumpy and needing to be reset, or all software reinstalled, = and the minijam draining the batteries completely in an hour or so, it's not wo= rth the time investment to use. The visor does not behave very nicely when its batteries get low, and with the minijam playing, there's no way to know that the batteries are low. Anyway, so I haven't used my visor in a while. Next time around, the handh= eld I choose will not be utterly dependent on volatile RAM, will use an OS that= has little more sophistication than DOS, will have color, a rechargable battery, and 802.11b built-in. ;) Also, due to unreliable USB drivers, the tools I wrote are almost useless to me. I can't reliably fill the mmc with songs (the app starts to give read errors...I have to re-run it ~10 times just to fill it with songs), and Arn= im's mj-xfer just plain doesn't work with UHCI. <end rant> So anyway, I'd be delighted if you wanted to add a GUI for it. I offer my support as an "interested spectator". ;) Please do some web searches though, there are many other similar GUI projec= ts. It would be better to add minijam support for one of these projects than wr= ite your own app from the ground up. Good Luck! -- Bob Bob McElrath (rsm...@st...)=20 Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics |