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You too? Once, I was called pencil. :P >.<

qwerty12, probably it will change with the age :P

Ha, I hope so :P

Nope...everybody told me that, in my teens, twenties, thirties, well, you get the idea. Never have gotten above 140.

BTW, thanks Franstag for chiming in here and giving instructions. I've been playing with it and so far, so good!

I have now placed a Windows version of WeightJinni on my webpage:
See www.anderenen.de/anderenende/maemo.html (changes at the top) or directly www.anderenen.de/anderenende/WeightJinni.zip. This is not a real distribution or even a nice installation but only a teaser :-) There are also some glitches. The Windows port of libIllumination is not as well tested as the X11 port. File format is be exchangeable, unde rwindows the application generates a WeightJinni.xml below ApplicationData or similar (in the user directory). If you are further questions....ask!

hey Framstag...

i think weightjinni is AWESOME...

but here are some suggestions to make it more user friendly..

instead of double tap and hold to add data, maybe make a toolbar, or a little "+" to click on... its kind of tiddius to dubble tap and hold to get the menu to come up.

personaly i a tracking calories, it would be nice if i could make a spreadsheet of foods and calories on my PC and import it to weightjinni. i notice there is a import feature but i think i read that there are copy right issues, but why cant we make our own files? a good web site for info is http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/


thats all i have for now, i would like to see you keep working on this program. it is very nice...
Viele Gruß

Thanks for your response :-)

Double tap: Yes I know the double tap is a little bit tricky and not obvious at all, so having a special button and or a menu entry would be nice. A meny entry is not a problem - however "add", "remove", "edit" and "use" buttons would take away screen space. And I value screen space on the Nokia as important (what would be a list where you can only see tree entries;-)). However if there is a majority of people finding button more important than space that can be easily changed (othe rideas are of cause laso welcomed).

IMHO the best solution would be to just use drag (from left) & drop (to right) in this case. Sadly my GUI library curently does not support drag & drop (earlier incarnations i a different computer language did) and currently I lack the time to implement this.

Yes there are import/export menu entries and they are working and can be freely used. Just export your entries and analyse the resulting XML file for its structure. It is very simple. I can also add support for other (simple) formats if there is interest. Notr that exports only exports the left table.

If there is copyright free data material I could also offer pre-installed import files (or add data files from somebody else).

(I'm a little bit in hury and away till next friday so I do not explain the export/import file format here and now).

Note that there are curently two known bugs in WeightJinni:
Cliping of value bars in the graph is buggy (this is already fixed) and sometime the line drawing seems to miss intermediate points and thus there can be jumping lines while scrolling (not yet investigated).

I also plan to improve the statistics part a little bit for the next version.

So I take it we have to manually add food data? That'd be a bit tedious since there's several thousand possible items that can be added. >.<

That is not exactly what I said :-)

• I cannot release data that is under copyright
• I can put uncopyrighted data on the web page and can make it part of the package.
• I can convert data that you are interested in
• You can do this, too. Just contact me for details!
• You can directly exchange any data you like using the import/export functionality. The import is additive and just skips existing (unchanged) entries

That means:

• You can share your data (just do it), so not everybody needs to input everything himself. In fact you even do not need me for this.
• Tell me in which concrete data source you are intersted and I'll see what I can do. I need concrete requirements since I do not want to convert data you do not need
• If you need me to improve the import just tell me

The import/export functionality was build so that you can share!

Somebody already mentioned a link to a page with data. I did not have the time to look at it yet but will do this ASAP.

Hmm, yeah. And I don't have any data to get started with, copyright or otherwise.

And speaking of copyright, who in their right mind copyrights calorie data anyways? I thought that was all public knowledge stuff.