[Coco] Full GUI DriveWire 4 beta

[Aaron Wolfe]

I'm honestly not sure this is something that you want to mess with.

To build the GUI, you will need the SWT libraries, which may or may
not have been installed when you did whatever you did to install
Eclipse.  I always just "install" eclipse by downloading the zip file
from the eclipse website, seems to be as easy as downloading and
unpacking it wherever, ready to go.  Anyway, the SWT libs can be found
here: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ or maybe via your package manager.

Things will go smoother if these libraries are already present when
the import into eclipse is done.  If you don't have the SWT libs
already, I'd recommend deleting whatever is currently in Eclipse,
getting the libs, and doing an import.

To properly import the UI, choose File, Import, General > Existing
Projects into Workspace, and point it at wherever the "DriveWireUI"
directory you checked out from cvs is.

You can then right click on the head of the newly created DriveWireUI
project in Eclipse and choose "Run" to execute it immediately, or
Export, Java >> Runnable Jar File to create a standalone .jar.

HTH
-Aaron


On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>
>> Sources are always available via CVS from sourceforge:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/
>>
>> If you're familiar with eclipse, it *should* be as simple as checking
>> out the source via CVS and importing the tree into Eclipse.  Of
>> course, it sometimes doesn't go quite that smoothly.
>
> Well, I installed eclipse (all 37+ packages) and was able to perform
> something that claimed to be an import of my local CVS tree.  Then... what?
>  Eclipse has nothing that says "compile" or "build".  There is no obvious
> way to specify the two paths needed by ANT when I build on the command line.
>
> On its own, it did... something that resulted in a cascade of error messages
> on the bottom of the workplace.  I assume this was due to the lack of proper
> path setup for the libraries.
>
> I can still run the ant build from the 'java' subdirectory on the command
> line, but it does not construct the GUI tool.
>
> Steve
>
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