Palm Pre Development Bundle 0.2

Yes, after not even four hours I’ve already finished building the 0.2-release of my Palm Pre Development Bundle for TextMate. In case you’re wondering what weird stuff I’m talking about, please read my previous post first.

However, this second release includes a lot more features than it had before, plus I’ve made use of the CocoaDialog now. Let me describe the new features from the top to the bottom of the screenshot on the left site.

First of all, there’s “Generate New Project”. This lets you execute a palm-generate with all important attributes and opens the created project afterwards using the “mate” terminal-command, which needs to be available for this to work. All you have to do then is simply to save the TextMate project right into your generated project-directory.

Next, we still have “Generate New Scene”. I’ve enhanced the feature now, so that you’ll get a cocoa dialog asking for the scene’s name. Beware: The generation usually works as it should, the only problem is the TextMate project-drawer, which doesn’t seem to refresh by itself. A workaround: Cmd+H to hide TextMate and then click on its Dock-icon to make it appear again. Then all newly generated files should be visible in its drawer.

The next three features work just as before, no enhancements at all. On the fourth, the “Launch Project in Debugging-Mode” feature, I’ve implemented a palm-launch with debugging options, that can be run on an existing, packaged and installed project.

Next, there are ways to close and remove installed Projects. “Close running project” of course only works, when the App is actually running and “Remove installed Project” removes the App from the device. As device for all those commands the first device found by the Palm toolset will be taken – so if you would like to use the Emulator, better disconnect your real device and vice versa.

I’ve also built-in two features that let you simulate test calls and SMS on your Emulator, if you changed from password authentication to SSH public key authentication. You can do this either manually or try to use the feature at the menu’s bottom named “Auto-install SSH-Pubkey on Emulator”. Depending on your SSH-key-setup it works out or… not.

The other seven features allow you to simulate GPS drives on the Emulator – again only if you’ve set-up SSH-Pubkey authentication.

I hope you enjoy this release of the Palm Pre Development Bundle for TextMate! :-)

Download: Palm-Pre-Bundle-0.2

UPDATE: There’s a newer version available! Get it here. Or use GitHub.

Also, I would like to see a new (more affordable) Apple TV with more hard drive capacity and the information that movies are finally available in Germany, too. Also, a DVD-R or Blu-Ray drive integrated into the Apple TV would be very nice.

Whatever, I think we’ll need to wait and let us surprise, what Santa Jo..eh.. Schiller brings us this year, heh.

However, I’ve also been thinking of some new stuff I could implement into REX and had a nice idea regarding the output-volume. A microphone could be connected to the mainboard and placed somehwere in the center. This microphone records the sound and compares the signal-line with the one of the audio that is just being played. Depending on the grade of differences it could then automatically increase the output-volume to reach a acceptable signal-strength again. I got this idea when I became pretty annoyed of the fact that everytime when I open my window while driving I can’t hear the music anymore, especially when driving fast. By this feature REX would automatically adapt the sound to the actual soundscape. I don’t know how hard it is to implement this feature, since I’ve never done anything like sound-analytics in programming before, but I’ll find out soon.

Btw: And still I’m searching for some Map/Navigation software for Linux. It is pissing me off that nothing useful exists. I’ve found a project on BerliOS called Navit, but it doesn’t seem to be pretty far right now.

However, I’ve also been thinking of some new stuff I could implement into REX and had a nice idea regarding the output-volume. A microphone could be connected to the mainboard and placed somehwere in the center. This microphone records the sound and compares the signal-line with the one of the audio that is just being played. Depending on the grade of differences it could then automatically increase the output-volume to reach a acceptable signal-strength again. I got this idea when I became pretty annoyed of the fact that everytime when I open my window while driving I can’t hear the music anymore, especially when driving fast. By this feature REX would automatically adapt the sound to the actual soundscape. I don’t know how hard it is to implement this feature, since I’ve never done anything like sound-analytics in programming before, but I’ll find out soon.

Btw: And still I’m searching for some Map/Navigation software for Linux. It is pissing me off that nothing useful exists. I’ve found a project on BerliOS called Navit, but it doesn’t seem to be pretty far right now.