Bob,
I'm not very competent in UNIX or Java so I am wondering if it will be
possible to get the Windows RXTX API code from the jmri download site.
I am interested in trying it out if I can get it. I have 2 PCs and
neither supports setting the required rate for the MS100. One is a
generic P133 machine with W95 and the other is an IBM Thinkpad T20
with WIN2K.
Dale.
--- In jmriusers@y..., Bob Jacobsen <Bob_Jacobsen@l...> wrote:
At 9:58 AM +1200 6/4/02, Alex Shepherd wrote:
If we go down this path does it mean that we will have to migrate
the
current JMRI port access from using the SUN CommAPI to this RXTX
API or does
the RXTX api fit under the existing SUN commAPI and implement the
same
driver interface. Guess it will become clear to me after I dig into
it a
bit...
The RXTX folks have two versions of their library, called 1.4 and
1.5. The member function names and arguments, classnames,
functionality, etc, are identical between the two. Version 1.4,
which is what Mike used on Linux if I recall correctly, implements
the same API as Sun's javax.comm, so it works without any changes to
JMRI. That's nice, because we can use RXTX on some machines, and
other implementations on other machines. Right now we use RXTX on
Linux & MacOS X, Patrick Beard's implementation on MacOS classic,
Sun's on Windows, and IBM's on OS/2.
The RXTX version 1.5 puts all the classes in an "org.gnu.io" package
tree, instead of the javax tree. Apparently this is important for
certain uses which are intended to be 100% "free" software.
So as long as we stick with the 1.4 version, we should be OK.
Bob
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