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Mobile tools
Finally, the first stub of JDialer's mobile tools is complete and functional.
Actually it can only download the phonebook from a mobile device and add the numbers in the local phonebook if they aren't already present.
It won't be released soon, but if you want to try it, check this page: http://www.jdialer.net/info/daily.php
The main problem is that mobile devices are slow to respond, and while the program is awaiting for a respond, it doesn't do anything. Honestly, most of users would think it crashed.
I'll see to fix this adding a moving element just to show that it is still running.
2006-03-29 20:12:49 UTC by tiposchi
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Stallman's conference
He didn't talk about linux. He talk about GNU/Linux, he was very clear about why whe should say GNU/Linux instead of linux.
I agree with him, so i will replace Linux with GNU/Linux in jdialer's home page.
2006-03-27 14:08:37 UTC by tiposchi
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Migration complete.
After some irrilevant code changes, and some tests, JDialer now is able to use gnu.io package to access serial ports, instead of Sun's javax.comm
This migration is due to the bad support offered by Sun.
They retired the Windows version of the package (maybe to promote non-free solutions by other producers?) and the Linux version didn't run.
This is not a problem for JDialer. The new version (will be released within this week) will be able to run everywhere.
2006-02-17 09:35:56 UTC by tiposchi
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Migrating from javacomm API
JDialer uses javacomm to interact with serial ports.
Version 2 of javacomm, produced by Sun, is released for Windows and Solaris only.
Rxtx.org is a project released under LGPL to let applications use javacomm on Mac and Linux too.
Lately Sun has released javacomm 3, for Solaris and Linux.
There is not a Windows version and I was unable to find the prev version on their site.
I've tried the linux one and it doesn't work.
I've tried combining the solaris version with rxtx and it doesn't work.
This is a real problem since JDialer is heavly based on that lib.
This weekend I'll begin changing the code of JDialer to use gnu.io package by rxtx instead of javacomm by Sun, and to test it on both Linux and Windows.
2005-12-12 20:57:45 UTC by tiposchi
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Automatic check for updates!
The next release of JDialer (version 1.2.4_02) will be able to check if there are updates online.
This is the most visible change of this update, but not the only one.
The text importer\exporter in the phonebook has been improved, the layout of the search window has been changed and now the sort is no more case sensitive.
Installer wizard has been changed... but not so much. Now it is possible to install the jar package or the sources directly from the setup.
This update will be released this weekend.
2005-11-11 10:26:02 UTC by tiposchi
