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1.1     ! root        1: Hatari UI
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        !             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
        !             9: language while avoiding adding GUI toolkit dependencies to Hatari
        !            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:
        !            25: - Python >=2.4
        !            26: - PyGtk >= 2.8   (on Ubuntu PyGtk is in python-gtk2 package)
        !            27: 
        !            28: Hatari UI is included with the Hatari sources:
        !            29:        http://hg.berlios.de/repos/hatari/file/tip/
        !            30: 
        !            31: Hatari UI has been tested only on Linux (Ubuntu v7.04 and Debian Etch
        !            32: & Lenny). I would assume it works also on other unix systems such as
        !            33: Apple OSX. It won't work on Windows as the required Windows socket
        !            34: support is missing from the Hatari emulator.
        !            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
        !            39: would need to be added both to Hatari and Hatari UI).
        !            40: 
        !            41: 
        !            42: Running
        !            43: -------
        !            44: 
        !            45: Being a Python program, Hatari UI doesn't need to be built.
        !            46: You can just run it from where you extracted it (or checked
        !            47: it out of BerliOS HG repo) by calling its wrapper script:
        !            48:        /path/to/script/hatariui
        !            49: 
        !            50: Or you can run just the debugger:
        !            51:        /path/to/script/debugui.py
        !            52: 
        !            53: But you can also install it to system along with Hatari:
        !            54:        make install
        !            55: 
        !            56: There's also a command line interface for Hatari's remote API
        !            57: called hatari-console.py.
        !            58: 
        !            59: 
        !            60: Notes
        !            61: -----
        !            62: 
        !            63: Hatari UI runs a Hatari version found on $PATH.  If you want
        !            64: to use a version of Hatari that hasn't been installed, you
        !            65: need to modify the search path, for example like this:
        !            66:        PATH=../src:$PATH hatariui
        !            67: 
        !            68: If UI is started without the embedding option, the actions
        !            69: (in menus and toolbars) have also shortcuts.  They cannot
        !            70: be used when Hatari window is embedded because then those
        !            71: shortcuts couldn't be used with Hatari.
        !            72: 
        !            73: 
        !            74: URL: http://koti.mbnet.fi/tammat/hatari/hatari-ui.shtml

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