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Tracks running on iPad

ashikase

Posted: 02 June 2010 07:14 AM

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I just thought I’d mention that I got Tracks (1.7.1) running on a jailbroken iPad.

Getting it working wasn’t too hard, though I ended up having to cross-compile the C portion of the sqlite3-ruby gem. I tested it with WEBrick, and am currently running it via lighttpd.

I’ve tried several times to get into GTD, and have always liked Tracks the best out of the software that I’ve tested, but it never seemed to quite fit when running it on my notebook/desktop. I can’t say for certain that I’ll stick with it this time, but using it on the iPad is quite nice.

Overall it looks good on the iPad, though I might try to tweak the interface a bit - there is about an inch of free space on the right side, and everything is just a *bit* too small. Zooming in makes it fit nicely, but having to zoom everytime is, of course, not a viable option. I also hope to find a way to hide the Safari navigation bar.

If anyone else tries it and has trouble, feel free to drop me a line. Also, if anyone has already tweaked the interface for the iPad, please let me know.

Reinier Balt

Posted: 02 June 2010 12:55 PM

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cool

Great you like Tracks so much. Why do you think you like Tracks the most? (what are our usp’s) We need to make sure we don’t loose it…

Do you see the free space in safari on your desktop too? In that case we could patch the default css. I’m not seeing it in Firefox. You could consider the latest dev tree. It’s quite stable and has lots of new functions like drag and drop…

The font-size is unfortunately scatterd over the css (see http://github.com/bsag/tracks/blob/master/public/stylesheets/standard.css), so that will not be easy to do that consitently. I guess it would be easy if they were all percentiles in stead of absolute sizes…

ashikase

Posted: 03 June 2010 08:26 AM

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I think what draws me most to Tracks is the fact that it uses an open format. I’ve never been comfortable with proprietary or cloud-based systems.

I took a screenshot of how Tracks (1.7.1) appears on the iPad (in landscape):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/667418/Screenshots/ipad-tracks-17.png

I also tested the latest git version; the gap is smaller, but still present:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/667418/Screenshots/ipad-tracks-git.png

... zooming in just a bit gives a good fit, but is of course inconvenient:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/667418/Screenshots/ipad-tracks-git-zoomed.png

The git version took quite a bit more work to install, due to the increased number of required gems. I ended up having to setup a compiler and compile them directly on the iPad.

One unfortunate thing about the git version is the new drop down menu for delete & defer; it’s a bit slow to appear, and the “down arrow” icon is a bit hard to tap. I may try enlarging a few of the image buttons to make them more finger-friendly.

By the way, for reference, here is the user agent string for the iPad version of Safari:

“Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10”

pmobuvis

Posted: 20 June 2010 08:18 AM

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Hi Ashikase. Is there anyway you can the share the steps you took in getting the sqlite3-ruby working on the iPad? I wanted the RoR running on my ipad so i can run various projects…but I can’t get the sqlite portion to work and I prefer not installing mysql. Any additional details on the cross compiling process would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance.

Raketemensch

Posted: 23 June 2010 05:01 PM

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Just wondering, why are you hosting it on the iPad rather than hosting it on a web server that you can hit with the iPad or any other laptop/desktop/phone?

John Bertagnolli

Posted: 07 July 2010 12:32 AM

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I have Tracks installed on a server and access it with my iPad. I noticed the space as well and hacked up standard.css. I think the problem is that the input box is specified using a percentage rather than an absolute placement.

standard.css:

#content {
    min-width: 900px;
    margin-top: 90px;
}

#display_box {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0px;
    right: 350px;
    min-width: 600px;
    margin: 0px 10px 50px 15px;
}

div#input_box {
    position: absolute;
    right: 0px;
    width: 300px;
    margin: 0px 15px 0px 15px;
    padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px;
} 

I have noticed that the footer text doesn’t get positioned correctly, but I’m by no means an expert with CSS. It’s a start, and should help recapture some pixels on your ipad screen.

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