It has not been released yet, but there appears to be good news coming for those who wish they could use Sailwave on a tablet.
The WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) Windows compatibility layer for Linux and Mac has been ported to Android. Apparently the recent demo was horribly slow, but I remain optimistic that we'll see it on Android sooner rather than later.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/04/wine-android-windows-apps/
One thought on this, Jon. If this is going to happen, or if people start using remote clients like VNC to bring Sailwave to their tablets, having some sort of touch-scale skin for Sailwave might be a nice addition. I saw this recently while comparing Point of Sale systems for our yacht club here - the entire interface was designed so that it could be used on a tablet via a remote client from the host PC.
Charlie Simon's Committee Boat Suite has a feature that creates a very simple web server that serves a single page, with a single "finish" button. A person can finish boats by holding up their WiFi enabled phone and pushing the button as boats cross. They get recorded in CBS for export to Sailwave later. Another way of doing it, I guess.
Andy
Hi Andy,
Actually I saw this post yesterday
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI5MjA
It does talk about Wine on Arm but it also talks about x86 devices being used for Android Tablets. I could see Wine on an x86 Android tablets being very capable of supporting Sailwave, although I have always thought that running windows based software on an Arm processor was a definate No - But there is an App called the Winulator if you google it which is running X86 games from the Win95 Win98 era on Android devices, so I would love to know how this is done.
I wasn’t aware of the C.B.S. feature which sounds quite neat. But on my development list is something similar where I run a simple server on the Sailwave computer or even the Sailwave web site server and run the SailNo wizard on the Tablet or iPhone.
Getting there. This morning I gave the RYA a Beta version of Sailwave 2.9 which has the ability to Calculate the new National Handicap for Cruisers (Regatta version only at the moment) but this uses the windows messaging I built into version 2.9 and the Handicapping calculations are done external to Sailwave although all the amended ratings go straight to Sailwave via windows messaging as does the rescoring control. I plan to use the same technology for the remote Sail No wizard. Although have to finish this Handicaping for Cruisers yet which is a bit similar to ECHO but more complicated.
Jon
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On 4 February 2013 14:13, Andy andy@sailor.nu wrote:
It has not been released yet, but there appears to be good news coming for those who wish they could use Sailwave on a tablet.
The WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) Windows compatibility layer for Linux and Mac has been ported to Android. Apparently the recent demo was horribly slow, but I remain optimistic that we’ll see it on Android sooner rather than later.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/04/wine-android-windows-apps/
One thought on this, Jon. If this is going to happen, or if people start using remote clients like VNC to bring Sailwave to their tablets, having some sort of touch-scale skin for Sailwave might be a nice addition. I saw this recently while comparing Point of Sale systems for our yacht club here - the entire interface was designed so that it could be used on a tablet via a remote client from the host PC.
Charlie Simon’s Committee Boat Suite has a feature that creates a very simple web server that serves a single page, with a single “finish” button. A person can finish boats by holding up their WiFi enabled phone and pushing the button as boats cross. They get recorded in CBS for export to Sailwave later. Another way of doing it, I guess.
Andy