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1.1       root        1: Hatari UI
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                      3: 
                      4: Hatari UI is an out-of-process user interface for the Hatari Atari
                      5: ST/STe/TT/Falcon emulator and its built-in debugger which can
                      6: (optionally) embed the Hatari emulator window.
                      7: 
                      8: Having the UI in another process allows doing it with a higher level
1.1.1.2   root        9: language while avoiding adding GUI toolkit dependencies to Hatari
1.1       root       10: itself. The UI is done with PyGtk i.e. in Python language, using the
                     11: Gtk widget set.
                     12: 
                     13: The main points of this new UI over the Hatari internal one are its
                     14: configurability and providing a GUI for the (console based) debugger
                     15: included with the Hatari emulator.
                     16: 
                     17: Note: this is an additional UI, the built-in Hatari SDL UI isn't being
                     18: replaced or going anywhere!
                     19: 
                     20: 
                     21: Requirements
                     22: ------------
                     23: 
                     24: My guess at the required versions for the dependencies are:
1.1.1.3 ! root       25: - Python >= 2.4
        !            26: - PyGtk >= 2.12   (on Debian/Ubuntu PyGtk is in python-gtk2 package)
1.1       root       27: 
1.1.1.2   root       28: Hatari UI is included with the Hatari sources:
                     29:        http://hg.berlios.de/repos/hatari/file/tip/
                     30: 
1.1.1.3 ! root       31: Hatari UI has been tested only on Linux (Ubuntu v7.04 and Debian Lenny
        !            32: & Squeeze). I would assume it works also on other unix systems such as
1.1.1.2   root       33: Apple OSX. It won't work on Windows as the required Windows socket
                     34: support is missing from the Hatari emulator.
1.1       root       35: 
                     36: Embedding the Hatari emulator window is currently supported only for
                     37: systems using an X window system (from libSDL sources it would seem
                     38: that Windows would also support window embedding, but support for that
1.1.1.3 ! root       39: would need to be added both to Hatari and Hatari UI because SDL's
        !            40: own embedding disables all keyboard events in SDL program).
1.1       root       41: 
                     42: 
                     43: Running
                     44: -------
                     45: 
                     46: Being a Python program, Hatari UI doesn't need to be built.
                     47: You can just run it from where you extracted it (or checked
1.1.1.2   root       48: it out of BerliOS HG repo) by calling its wrapper script:
1.1       root       49:        /path/to/script/hatariui
                     50: 
                     51: Or you can run just the debugger:
                     52:        /path/to/script/debugui.py
                     53: 
1.1.1.2   root       54: But you can also install it to system along with Hatari:
1.1       root       55:        make install
                     56: 
                     57: 
                     58: Notes
                     59: -----
                     60: 
1.1.1.2   root       61: Hatari UI runs a Hatari version found on $PATH.  If you want
                     62: to use a version of Hatari that hasn't been installed, you
                     63: need to modify the search path, for example like this:
                     64:        PATH=../src:$PATH hatariui
                     65: 
1.1       root       66: If UI is started without the embedding option, the actions
                     67: (in menus and toolbars) have also shortcuts.  They cannot
                     68: be used when Hatari window is embedded because then those
                     69: shortcuts couldn't be used with Hatari.
                     70: 
                     71: 
                     72: URL: http://koti.mbnet.fi/tammat/hatari/hatari-ui.shtml

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