XTAROT - The Cyber Oracle

This is an improved version of xtarot. Please concider the application as being covered by the GPL. Better documentation is comming.

Many thanks to Freshmeat for promoting this program.

DOWNLOAD

From version 1.0.3 the card graphics and interpretations have been placed in a seperate package so you do not have to get them every time the code changes.

Click here to get xtarot-resources.tgz
Click here to get xtarot-1.0.3.tgz

REQUIREMENTS

X11, it is of course an X Window application.

Imlib, Imlib is included with most linux distributions, if in doubt get it from http://www.labs.redhat.com/imlib/ PLEASE NOTE:- I have changed this url since it seems unavailable.

INSTALLATION

First get xtarot-1.0.x.tgz
get xtarot.resources.tgz

$ tar xvzf xtarot-1.0.x.tgx
$ mv xtarot.resources.tgz xtarot-1.0.x
$ cd xtarot-1.0.x
$ tar xvzf xtarot.resources.tgz
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

If you lack the required font the program will probably fail, but the font I use should be available to most linux installations. If you change it, be sure to use a fixed font of the same size :-) (this applies to reading.c only)

RUNNING xtarot

A single parameter may be passed to xtarot to set the initial spread.

xtarot 1 starts with five card YES/NO spread.
xtarot 2 starts with the default ten card Celtic spread.
xtarot 3 starts with a fifteen card spread.
xtarot 4 starts with a 21 card pyramid spread.

This application has been written to accompany an Xlib tutorial, the whole idea was to produce a non-trival application for X Windows in C, without using C++, other libraries for widgets etc.

Imlib has been used due to its simple and effective features for graphic manipulation.

If I get any response to this program I may further develop it, possibly including Motif or KDE widgets for a more conventional user interface, and making card interpretation more intelligent (than simply displaying a text file)

Any problems please e-mail me at xtarot@hawklord.uklinux.net with your suggestions.

Program updates may be found at http://www.hawklord.uklinux.net/xtarot
Chris Gibbs.