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1. About Smart Gnome Control
Smart Gnome Control is a graphical user interface to multiple communications
receivers via the Hamlib library. The specific purpose is to let you control
your communications receiver from a personal computer, and to simplify the
hobby of shortwave radio listening. The Smart Gnome Control interface is
designed to automatically reconfigure according to the known capabilities of
your receiver. It is also designed to provide database-driven tuning, memory
and logging capabilities, based on FineWare's (discontinued) Smart Control
series of receiver control packages for Windows. The Smart Gnome Control
interface is written for Linux and Cygwin in GNU C/C++, using Glade, Gdk/Gtk+
and Gnome widgets. It also requires version 1.2.2 of Hamlib.
2. Compiling Smart Gnome Control
To compile Smart Gnome Control you will need:
* hamlib 1.2.2
* gtk+ 1.2 (not 2.0)
* gnome 1.4 (not 2.0)
* gdk-pixbuf 0.8 or later
* GConf 1.0.4 or later (not 2.0)
These packages (except hamlib) are included in every modern non-specialized
linux distribution. You will also need the so-called development files of each
package which include the header files and static libraries.
To compile Smart Gnome Control you should first run 'sh ./autogen.sh'. This will
create a 'configure' script for later re-configuration. However, 'autogen' will
usuall run 'configure' automatically the first time.
If you don't get any errors, type 'make'. The program should now compile without
warnings and you should end up with an executable binary, 'sgcontrol', in the
'src' subdirectory.
If you want to install the program into your system, type 'make install'
(usually only done as root). To install a slimmer version of sgcontrol, type
'make install-strip'.
3. Using Smart Gnome Control
The first time you run Smart Gnome Control it will display a default display that
is not configured for any particular receiver. In order to set the application for
a particular receiver, select the Tools -> Options menu. This will display all of
the available recievers that Hamlib controls. Select your particular receiver from
the list, choose a communications port from the selection box below it, and click
the Ok button. The application will automatically reconfigure the display for that
particular receiver.
I hope you'll have fun using Smart Gnome Control. If you find any bugs or have any
comments feel free to contact me. Bugs and feature requests should be submitted using
the bug tracker on the project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sgcontrol. Hamlib
related bugs should be sent to the hamlib developer mailing list at
hamlib-developer@lists.sourceforge.net.
Mark J. Fine
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