[Coco] Update to DriveWire 4 Java

[Rocky Hill]

 I just added an additional Windows release in the form of an installer.  If you have Windows, you can download the installer and DriveWire4 will be installed  along with its dependencies so there is no need to install Java.  You can launch DriveWire4 from the Start Menu or from a desktop icon, there's even an uninstaller.   
Choose the default installation directory which is the current user home.  you can choose anothr directory but directories like "Program Files" shouldn't work because  DriveWire4 needs write access where it resides in order to save configuration stuff.  
Existing Java installations will not be affected. Here is the link, Enjoy! 
https://github.com/qbancoffee/drivewire4/releases/tag/4.3.3p_Windows_installer





Pedro


    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 02:25:15 PM EST, Rocky Hill via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:  
 
  You're welcome and my pleasure! 


I felt it was a shame to see Aaron Wolfe's work die off for what seemed like an easy problem to solve.   
I wanted to change as little as possible, just enough to get it into a usable state with an updated version of Java.  



I've actually already put up a video of it running on a raspberry pi 4. If you want to see it, here is the link.   


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W782IwTSjZI




Since I started doing this, some interest has emerged. Julian Brown which you might have heard has cloned the Dragon 32,  

has offered to rescue and maintain parts of the DriverWire 4 server. you can see it here.  

https://github.com/jimbro1000/drivewire4rescue
 
Thanks,
Pedro








    On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 01:38:09 PM EST, David Ladd via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:  
 
 Thank you for updating the serial module and the updates for newer Java
editions.

Will be interesting to see how well it works on a Raspberry Pi 4B :)


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 9:08 AM Rocky Hill via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>  After updating DriveWire 4 project to run with newer versions of Java  I
> got some feedback saying that it was occasionally crashing under Windows
> 10.  I narrowed the problem down to an older version of the Java RXTX
> serial library. I've updated the project to use the Neuron Robotics
> nrjavaserial serial libray. The Neuron Robotics nrjavaserial serial libray
> is an updated and maintained fork of
> the Java RXTX serial library so it was almost a drop in replacement.
> In addition to the update, Aaron Wolfe graciously gave me access to the
> sourceforge repository for the project and I've added the latest Java 17
> release. Clicking on the green Download button  will download the updated
> version of DriveWire 4. This specific download requires the user to have
> Java 17 or greater installed. Running the included scripts for your
> specific 64 bit OS should start DriveWire 4.
>
> A link to my github repo has also been included in the sourceforge main
> project page.
> All of the original source code and releases are still available from the
> sourceforge repo and  I plan on updating the repo in the next several
> months.
>
>
>
>
> Please download and try it. You can scroll down past the project files and
> there will be links to run it on several systems  without the need to
> install java if you don't want to.
> https://github.com/qbancoffee/drivewire4
>
>
> I've tested on the following 64 bit OS's:
> Ubuntu linux Raspberry pi OS (debian based)  Windows 10
>
>
>
> Here is a link to the original repository with updated links.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/drivewireserver/
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro
> <cut>
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>



Sincerely,
David Ladd
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