gaddr 1.1.4 ----------- Congratulations on downloading version 1.1 of gaddr, the GTK Address Book! You are now well on your way to peace and tranquility... Or something like that... gaddr is a nice simple little address book written using the GTK+ widget set. Those of you who have used laddr, the Lesstif Address Book might find it fairly familiar, as I one off the other. (In fact, I wrote both of them!) Why an address book? Because I looked all over for one that I liked, and came up empty handed each time. So, I decided to write my own. Why GTK+? Well, I had originally started writing my addressbook using GTK, but quickly ran into problems due to the lack of documentation. So I turned to Lesstif. After laddr reached 1.0 stage, the GTK version started saying "Bring me back to life... I want to be finished..." After carefully ignoring it for a month or two, a guy I know told me that I should port laddr to GTK. Well, that convinced me to try it out. And it apparently worked, and even has some improvements. Starting with version 1.1, I have begun adding Gnome support. I myself don't really use to much Gnome stuff at the moment, as I am more of a free lance X user, but I really like the idea and wanted to contribute to the project. Version 1.1 requires Gnome libs to be installed on your computer. Don't worry if you don't have them, as you can still run version 1.0 without any sort of Gnome stuff. There are no feature differences between the two. When gaddr 1.2 comes along, it will hopefully compile both with and without Gnome support. So, what's it do? Well, it holds addresses and any other information you want to know about a person. It also looks pretty, and is fairly small both in executable size and screen real estate size. It basically acts like a pile of alphabetized 3x5 cards on which you can write whatever your little heart desires. It will then save them on exit so you can load them up over and over. Of course, adding and deleting cards is a simple task, and with a couple clicks, the information is right back at your fingertips. Lastly, if you specify a file on the command line, gaddr will load that one up instead of the default .gaddrbook. The internals of the program rely on CoryDB, a database that consists of a linked list as written by Matt Fisher. I am eternally in debt to him, and now will have to learn to program stuff in Windows just so he can use it, too. :) Thanks Matt! Ok, that is all I have to babble about. The latest version of gaddr will probably be available at http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gaddr at all times. I should also be contactable at cluenin1@bigred.unl.edu at about all times. So, let me know what you think and what new stuff should be added/fixed. Cory Lueninghoener cluenin1@bigred.unl.edu
