Hexi - simple bit tossing tool for HW or SW developers
 

Hexi is a very simple tool for hard- or software developers. You can toggle one of 32 buttons, each of them representing a bit in a 32 bit value. The value is presented in hex, dez and binary.

http://m-kress.de

I created this mainly to get to know something about Qt. For this you need some simple task to solve: To avoid simple errors at work, when I have to quickly configure some registers for example of a uC or another IC, the idea for such a tool was born.

Now the app itself is done and packaged as deb. What remains to do is to package it again for extras-devel, so anybody can see it in there. This is a task, I'm not very interested in. The packaging system seems to be quite complicated without debian-tools and installed scratchbox. If anybody is interested to have this in extras-devel you are very welcome to do so!

Have fun!

Re: Hexi - simple bit tossing tool for HW or SW developers
 

I was going to package it for extras but it seems qt-creator didn't do the debian/rules (and debian/control) file for your source package.

Basically packaging for extras is nothing special if you know how to compile the project from command line but right now I don't have the time to look into QTCreator to see if it can be made to do this properly (this is one thing I hate about "these fancy IDEs", you can only compile the project if you happen to use the same IDE [and in worts case same plugins] as the developer)

Re: Hexi - simple bit tossing tool for HW or SW developers
 

I've uploaded it and shall let you know if it passes the autobuilder. Unless you just want the compatible source to upload yourself?

I failed miserably.

Re: Hexi - simple bit tossing tool for HW or SW developers
 

ibins, thanks. But packaging is a pretty simple in debian/maemo, and latest QtCreator makes automatically all packaging (even uploading to extras) for you.

Re: Hexi - simple bit tossing tool for HW or SW developers
 

@rambo: Thanks for trying! I completely agree with you about all this automagical generating wonder-tools and IDEs. Personally i despise all this buttons called "build all". Whenever a tool created a "project"-file I got lost somewhere along the line.

On the other side: Without the comfortable QT Creator I would have never achieved anything else apart from a hello-world program running in a shell. The fact, that the Makefile generated by QT Creator is about the same size than all the C++ Code, speaks for itself :-)

@Reffyyyy: Thank you, too! But: autobuilder? upload compatible source? You failed in what? I have no clue, what you could mean :-)

@divan: The dep package is indeed done by QT creator. In this dep is the binary, the icon and the .desktop file. Maybe I am wrong, but is the extras (or extras-devel) package not supposed to include the sources, too? Maybe I have tomatoes on my eyes but I can't find anything regarding some automatically upload to the repo in QT Creator.

@all: However, the fact that anyone was interested at all in an upload to extras is encouraging enough for me to look into this again tomorrow.
Maybe I just gave you the wrong source files? I know nothing about how QT Creator is working, so I also uploaded the Hexi-build-maemo directory. Maybe there are more useful files in it?