Anyone know how to use this cool weight control software. I have installed it but without any instructions or help, I am having a hard time figuring it out.
I was really hoping you had an answer that question. I've been looking for software to do this, but there's no help and not a clue where you're supposed to import the data from, and I can't get to let me add stuff manually. I type in the box, but there's no enter button...
Oddly, my problem isn't over, but underweight, and I really need a good tracking program to keep me on track. I thought this was the bomb, but...anyone?
dont get me wrong please, I appreciate that somebody works on this software and I really do hope it will eventually turn into something useful, but: this is exactly the kind of stuff that should never ever make it to the extras repository. it makes end users feel theres something broken.
Somebody made me aware that you are talking about WeightJinni and have problem with getting it to run. I hope I can help you :-)
Some points:
You could have contacted me :-/ There were a few people that contacted me and got immediate help.
You are right, the application is missing some documentation. I hoped that the hints on the page at www.maemo.org/downloads should get people starting (and if they stil had problems, would contact me). Obviously this was not enough. The problem with online help is, that the undrlying GUI library currently does not have support for formatted multiline text. The maemo online help system seems not to be designed for non-Gtk applications. Now that I know that there are people iterested in, I'll do my best to improve the situation.
Now some backround information about WeightJinni:
WeightJinni has two main views realized by two tabs.
The first tab again is splitted into two ares, the left side and the right side.
On the left side you can collect various items of food. For every food item you can give a unit (gramm, spoonful, pice or similar) and you can give it a value or rating. A simple rating would be the kcal or joule for the given portion. But there are other units possible like for example the unit of some well known organisation helping people watching for their weight :-)
Currently there is no preset data for this. The problem is that my currently only user uses data that is protected by copyright and ths cannot be shared. If somebody has a source for non-copyright proteced material, I can generate a preset file for this. Note that you can import end export this data, so once you have some datat you can share it.
The left table has a popup menu that can be activated by pointing and holding. Themenu items should be obvious.
Note that the rating can be independent of the amount fo food (choose a specific unit for this). Also note that rating can be negative, so Jogging is a specia kind of negative food!
On the right side you have a log fo the food you hav eeating a date together with your weight. Use the Date chooser to scroll through the days. Use the popup menu for this table to add weight, edit entries and so on.
Double clicking on a food on the left side poups a dialog asking for the used amount and then adds this to the right table.
The diagram shows your weight ove time and also shows the sum of rating per day as a bar. Stroking up or down on the graph changes units. Double clicking on a date jumps to that date.
The preferences dialog now allows you to adjust some stuff:
You can enter the minimum rate and maximum rate and also the minimum and maximum wieght displayed in the graph.
You can enter minimum and maximum recemmended values for rating per day and weight. Values within this range will be marked black, values outside will be marked red. You will also get some red ticks to the left and right of the diagram.
You can also define limits for good and bad food. Good food (with low rating) will be marked green, bad food (with bad rating) will bemarked red. Currently you must adjust the unit for the food to get this to work fine.
You can define the units for the rating (kcal or joule) and the weight (Kg or ounds).
Besides the date chooser are two values: The first one gives you the different in average weight of the last seven days incomparison of the seven days before this seven days. The second one shows the used rating and the left rating per day, relative to the upper limit as defined by preferences.
I plan to further improve the application.
If there are frther question, please ask. I will try to further monitor this thread.
P.S.:I can also offer a Linux desktop version and a Windows desktop version.
OK, that makes two. I will build a Windows version start of next week and put it on my webpage somewhere (simple "contains everything" zip).
A Linux version is a little bit more tricky. There is some code to build debian packages, but I likely have to update this. I can build a tar.gz, but note that there are a few dependend libraries to have and one to install. So what do you want?
Anybody interested in building packages for various (or at least his own) distributions? I can give help in building and could even offer write access to the sourceforge repository.
and I really need a good tracking program to keep me on track. I thought this was the bomb, but...anyone?
