Announce: Timer.app and CD.app

[Ian Jones]

Hi all,

I have a couple of apps to let loose. One (Timer.app) I have been 
sitting on for a while, I think some people from #gnustep have played 
with it but I never officially released it. The other is a music cd 
player.

Timer.app is basically a minute countdown timer, I find it useful for 
prevention of burning my oven lunches. Once it reaches 0 it gives 10 
audible beeps and then pops up an alert panel.

CD.app is a cdplayer application. I know one currently exists but for 
some reason the library that it uses for cdrom control hates my cdrom, 
so I made a new one using xine-lib. This unfortunately makes xine-lib 
a requirement, but this library appears to be very comprehensive to me 
and easy to use. I'm a mere beginner, and well, I managed to make a 
cdplayer so it can't be too hard. At the moment I'm using the library 
directly but if there is enough interest in using xine-lib for other 
multimedia applications on gnustep, which I believe would be a very 
good idea if we could agree on a common library, then I or someone 
else might write a wrapper for it. If you go to the xine 
site(http://xinehq.de/) the documentation is very good and this 
library can play a multitude of media types.

Timer.app: http://www.digital-bushido.org/opensource/files/CD.tgz
CD.app: http://www.digital-bushido.org/opensource/files/Timer.tgz

Have fun, I hope they are more popular than my attempt at an easy 
gnustep installer which is available here: 
http://www.digital-bushido.org/opensource/files/GSInstaller.tgz if 
anyone is interested, I believe the compile-all script included in the 
extracted directory would be a good inclusion to base to replace the 
existing one, it was designed to be. So if there are any developers 
willing to give it a lookover and consider it for inclusion, that 
would be nice.

Thanks as always to the people on #gnustep for offering advice and 
answering questions.

Regards,

Ian (Ian_j on #gnustep)