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True to my word I've begun work on a gallery application to show my Picasa Web Album here at jah's world. I've decided to build it with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to create an entirely client-side javascript gallery which uses the Picasa Web Albums Data API to fetch a json feed of my photos and display them in all their splendour.

So far, I haven't got very far, but I have created a new open source project at Google Code: PicaVue and committed some code to the svn repository. The aim is to have an albums index view with a thumbnail for each album and from there you can elect to view an album as a gallery of thumbnails or as a slide show. It will be simple to deploy to any website and hopefully easy to style to your liking. We'll see.

This will be my first real foray into GWT land and it shows - the source is seriously spaghettified, but I'm getting the hang of it and it will eventually be a beautiful thing!

If you'd like to contribute, you are more than welcome. If you want it now, you might like to take a look at PWI which I perhaps should have examined before I started coding (and not just two minutes ago).

Here's a rough guide to building Amap 5.2 from source code for windows users. I've been playing with this rather old tool recently and noticed that the web update functionality is broken due to a change of location for the update files. I decided to patch the source and thought it might be helpful to knock-up a quick build guide in the process. If you have any issues with any of the steps herein, mail me (jah) and let me know.

Install Cygwin.

On top of the default cygwin installation, you'll need to install the following packages (selecting these will add other required packages):

"Utils/diffutils" diffutils-2.8.7-1.tar.bz2
"Devel,Libs/openssl" openssl-0.9.8g-1.tar.bz2
"Devel,Libs/openssl-devel" openssl-devel-0.9.8g-1.tar.bz2
"Devel/gcc-core" gcc-core-3.4.4-3.tar.bz2
"Devel/make" make-3.81-2.tar.bz2

If you intend to patch the source code as described below you'll need:

"Utils/patch" patch-2.5.8-9.tar.bz2

Get AMAP source code and patch it.

Download http://freeworld.thc.org/releases/amap-5.2.tar.gz
Download amap.h.patch.txt
Copy these into C:\Cygwin\home\<Username> where username is your Cygwin username
Fire-up the Cygwin shell and unpack the AMAP source code:
$ tar -zxvf amap-5.2.tar.gz
$ cd amap-5.2/
$ cp ../amap.h.patch .
$ patch -p0 -u -i amap.h.patch

Build AMAP source

$ ./configure
$ make

Create a folder to hold the compiled amap files:

$ mkdir amap-5.2
$ cd amap-5.2/
$ cp ../amap.exe .
$ cp ../amapcrap.exe .
$ cp ../README README.TXT
$ cp ../appdefs.trig .
$ cp ../appdefs.rpc .
$ cp ../appdefs.resp .
$ cp /bin/cygwin1.dll .
$ cp /bin/cygssl-0.9.8.dll .
$ cp /bin/cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll .
$ ln -s amap amap6
$ cd ..
$ logout

Update the trigger and response files

Open a Windows Command Prompt and:

> cd \Cygwin\home\<Username>\amap-5.2\amap-5.2
> amap -W -D ./appdef

That's it! The folder at \Cygwin\home\<Username>\amap-5.2\amap-5.2 now contains all you need to run amap on Windows and can be moved to wherever you see fit.