NodeView 1.0 Documentation

Part of the OpenKiosk Project. © 2001 - 2004 by xynopsis

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I run NodeView on Windows?

Short answer: NO.

Long answer: NodeView is theoretically capable of running on Windows because NodeView is designed from the ground up to be very portable since it is based on the Qt multi-platform toolkit. The only problem is that a GPL version of Qt for Windows is not available. To compile NodeView on Windows, I must have access to a licensed commercial version of Qt 3. Now this costs $$$. So unless I sell commercial versions of OpenKiosk, this is unlikely to happen.

Can I run NodeView on Mac OSX?

Yes. GPLed Qt for OS X is available.

I want feature X! When can I have it? 

I will be very happy to hear your suggestions for the project but I can't guarantee that I will implement them right away. 
Every now and then, I will also post a sneak preview of the technologies that will be included in OpenKiosk in a future release. The features that you want could be in there. So visit the project website from time to time!
However, please keep in mind that the project is done in my spare time. I still need to eat you know. If you really want to have a particular feature implemented, kindly consider paying for it.

Why am I having this strange compile errors?

Either your version of Berkeley DB is old and you haven't bothered upgading to the latest release or you are installing Berkeley DB in a non-standard location and the compiler can't see the headers. See this: System requirements and Getting the source

NodeView cannot start and complains about missing libdb-4.x.x.

You haven't bothered updating your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include the Berkeley DB libraries and NodeView cannot find those. See this: Compilation

I think I found a bug. How do I report them?

First browse the projects forums and mailing lists, see if your problem is already described there and solved. If you really think it is a bug, you can submit a new bug report to the OpenKiosk Bug Tracker. Important! Kindly include in your report:

  1. The name and version of your operating system.
  2. Version of Qt.
  3. Version of Berkeley DB.
  4. Version of GCC.
  5. The error message that is printed in your console before the program went berserk.
Please follow these instructions closely if you want the issue to be speedily resolved.

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