A new chapter is about to be written in the history of this project. I am teaming up with a new developer to start work on a new generation of Xwii!

This new version of Xwii will be using the built in kernel driver to power its features and we will stop using wiiuse as a back end. Hopefully this will solve all problems you are having with Xwii at the moment. Work will start on this soon, we just need to sort out the details.

Most likely we will use Launchpad.net for its development and this should make the project more organised. Certain features we will focus on keeping such as the profile system and the new GUI I was working on.

Thats all for now!

I have just finished work on porting the existing GUI code to Gtk3 and I also added in an aboutDialog for the application. This is available for developers interested in helping mostly and is not properly functional yet.

So I must start off this news post by apologizing on the lack of news about the project. Initially some work was started by myself on the GUI for Xwii and James was helping too. However we have both been busy living our separate lives since last summer... with a plan to return working on the project this summer. We seemed to be too busy to come back to the project, so since last summer nothing has been done on the GUI work.

I will show everyone what we got done now... sadly im not sure will more work be done on it. I remember picking up a magazine in a shop and I saw the title "Use your Wiimote on Linux!". Then I decided to have a sneak peek at the article in case it was about Xwii. Of course it was not Xwii but something called "Wiican". Why did they get picked, its simple.. a nice GUI! Any program with similar features will win over a command line app... even tho Xwii is very simple to use.

Without further delay.. here it is:

Now James has actually confirmed the GUI works on 32bit Linux... for some reason I can't get it to work on 64bit. You can select your profile and when you click "Connect" it will run the selected profile with Xwii in the background. This was developed with GTKmm, my experience in this helped alot but I did need help from a contributor and James did the work on the backend code.

I will finish this post here... its too long already. I don't wanna bore people and I have said enough to keep ye informed. Hopefully I will post up soon as I have more things to talk about relating to the project.