Fit2PDA moved to Google Code, new project started

Today I moved Fit2PDA development to Google Code. Thanks to geomatsi for proposal!

All the source code is in svn now. Also I've written some help pages for project and uploaded build for Windows.
Linux build will be ready tomorrow.

So please feel free to download try and write bug reports

I will be happy to get new ideas and patches too!

New project vkontakte.net.ru

Last two weeks there was very little activity on Fit2PDA from my side, because of my new web project vkontakte.net.ru.
It is devoted to research on most successful Russian social network vkontakte.ru. I created small program in Python to draw maps of connections between people in this network. Web site has wiki for discussion of new ideas.

I need to warn you that vkontakte.net.ru is and will be in Russian only. Anyway why one not reading Russian can be interested in research of Russian social network :)

You can visit vkontakte.net.ru for more information if you read Russian.

Eric IDE on Unfriendly System

At morning I've read on linux.org.ru of new version of Eric IDE. After looking at screenshots I was very interested in this IDE.

So I decided to install it on my work PC.
Unfortunately it's running Windows XP, and I can't change it. And those OS doesn't have normal package manager.

To install Eric I needed Qt, Python, PyQt, QScintilla.

I had opensource Qt (installed with MinGW) and Active Python installed on my PC.
So I downloaded PyQt, QScintilla and Eric.
I installed binary package of PyQt and started to build QScintilla with MinGW. The build was successful, but python bindings didn't installed because of some error with SIP. So I tried to build SIP separately. It wasn't build because of some unknown linking errors with Python libraries.
I searched trough the internet, but was unable to find solution.
So I decided to reinstall everything.

First of all, I downloaded Python from python.org and installed it (it was what really helped).
Then I reinstalled Qt.
Then I downloaded source package of PyQt, unpacked it and run

python configure.py

make

make install

The build completed with no errors.
Next I downloaded QScintilla source and unpacked it. Then I went to Qt4 subdirectory, and run

qmake qscintilla.pro

make

make install

After that I went to Python subfolder of QScintilla source, and ran

python configure.py

make

make install

When the build was completed I had all needed to run Eric4.
(Also SIP is included into PyQt, so one don't need to build it separately).
Then I unpacked Eric and run
python install.py
eric4.bat
It started after all!

Eric is really great, but I've met the problem on second run - it haven't started because of some error in debugger configuration. So I had to turn remote debugging and passive debugging on through eric-configure.bat. After it the IDE started normally.

Fit2PDA

I've finally chosen the name for my program.
So it is now called Fit2PDA.

I think that the name is apt to the program :)

I've done some additional improvements in GUI, so now you can see (rather accurate:) progress bars during conversion and you can convert not only PDF/PostScript, but also Djvu.

Big number of free scanned ebooks can be found in Kolhoz library and eDonkey2000 p2p-network.

By the way, there are 2 good compatible clients for eDonkey: eMule for Windows and aMule for Linux. So, if you use both operation systems, you can continue your emule downloads in amule. You just need to select the same working directory!

First "public" version of "qtsplitter"

Finally first public alpha is out!
First completely working build for Windows is here
Simply download and extract archive, then run converter3.exe , choose pdf-files to convert, select correct screen width of your PDA and convenient resolution and press on button with red point. Then take a cup of coffee and wait while your papers or books are converted.
You will get iSilo-friendly html files, which could be easily converted to Palm-powered with iSiloX, or viewed with Pocket IE on PocketPC.
So I will be happy with any feedback from you!

Also I will be happy to get help with UI design and Linux package creation.


And the final question: do you think that "FitToPDA" is a good name?