[Rxtx] gui v1.0, example of use

[Dr. Douglas Lyon]

Hi All,
Here is an example of how you might use
my serial port panel:
  public static void main(String[] args) {
         final ClosableJFrame cf = new ClosableJFrame();
         Container c = cf.getContentPane();
         c.add(
                 new RunSerialPortPanel() {
                     public void run() {
                         SerialPortBean x1 = getValue();
                         System.out.println(x1);
                         cf.pack();
                     }
                 });
         cf.pack();
         cf.setVisible(true);
     }

The run method is invoke when the user click "OK" in the panel.
The SerialPortBean is then serialized into the user preferences and the
instance of the SerialPortBean value is returned from a getValue invocation.

The FlowControl is set to be the same for both input and output. That might
be limiting, for some people, I don't know.

The implementation of the RunSerialPortPanel is working, but it is not
really clean, yet. If people like this sort of thing, I can clean it up and
release the source code as a part of the JCP reference implementation (i.e.,
a sample to show how this might be done).

Do people care about an AWT version?
Thanks!
  - DL

>Looks fine. If this is made available as a panel, then it could 
>easily be used in situations where multiple serial ports need to be 
>configured, or where someone wants to embed it into another panel.
>
>While I haven't seen your soure code, allowing to 'hide' or 
>'gray-out' certain fields could be handy. Some use cases seem to
>indicate that sometimes the extra settings are hidden by some
>applications since they are assumed values.
>
>BTW In case you are interested I did a quick search with Google
>to see some dialogs already implemented:
>
>http://ajmas.dyndns.org/serialports/
>
>The vast majority use a simple layout you suggested. The main
>exception seems to be the MacOS 9 selector where images are used for 
>the ports.
>
>I was also wondering whether a URL format could be handy for
>serial port specification. For example:
>
>   serial://com1?4800,1,8,none,none
>
>   serial://dev/myport?4800,1,8,none,none
>
>But this last point is really the subject of another e-mail.
>
>Andre
>
>>
>>  From: "Dr. Douglas Lyon" <lyon at docjava.com>
>>  Date: 2006/09/30 Sat AM 07:43:04 EDT
>>  To: RXTX Developers and Users <rxtx at qbang.org>
>>  Subject: [Rxtx] gui v1.0
>>
>>  Hi All,
>>  Here is my first attempt at GUI for serial ports:
>> 
>>http://show.docjava.com:8086/book/cgij/code/jnlp/gui.run.RunSerialPortPanel.jnlp
>>
>>  The features:
>>  1. It works on PPC Mac, x86Linux and WinDOZE.
>>  2. It persists the settings from one run to the next in user preferences.
>>  3. It only configures one serial port (if you need to communicate with many
>>  serial ports at the same time, this is not for you).
>>  4. It uses Swing
>>  5. It can probably work on other platforms, I just don't have
>>  the native methods for the jar files linked into the web start application,
>>  yet.
>>  6. It is simple looking.
>>
>>  Please let me know what you think of it.
>>
>>  Thanks!
>>    - DL
>>
>>
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