This is the very first release of xtarot. Please concider the application as being covered by the GPL. Better documentation is comming.
REQUIREMENTS
X11, it is of course an X Window application.
Imlib, Imlib is included with most linux distributions, if in doubt get it from http://www.labs.redhat.com/imlib/
INSTALLATION
Xtarot is designed to be as flexable as possible.
For this reason I have now split it into two packages. This should be very good for people who want to keep up with the latest version because you now no longer need to download over 3 Meg of graphics every time there is a change to the code!
First get xtarot-1.0.x.tgz
get xtarot.resources.tgz
$ tar xvzf xtarot-1.0.x.tgx
$ mv xtarot.resources.tgz xtarot-1.0.x
$ cd xtarot-1.0.x
$ tar xvzf xtarot.resources.tgz
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
If you have problem with this please read INSTALL for more help.
If you lack the required font the program will probably fail, but the font I use should be available to most linux installations. If you change it, be sure to use a fixed font of the correct size :-) (this applies to reading.c only)
RUNNING xtarot
A single parameter may be passed to xtarot to set the initial spread.
xtarot 1 starts with five card YES/NO spread xtarot 2 starts with the default ten card Celtic spread xtarot 3 starts with a fifteen card spread xtarot 4 starts with a 21 card pyramid spread.
This application has been written to accompany an Xlib tutorial, the whole idea was to produce a non-trival application for X Windows in C, without using C++, other libraries for widgets etc.
Imlib has been used due to its simple and effective features for graphic manipulation.
If I get any response to this program I may further develop it, possibly including Motif or KDE widgets for a more conventional user interface, and making card interpretation more intelligent (than simply displaying a text file)
Any problems please e-mail me at xtarot@hawklord.uklinux.net with you suggestions.
Program updates may be found at http://www.hawklord.uklinux.net/xtarot
Chris Gibbs.
xtarot@hawklord.uklinux.net