Re: [Nxtcommand-developers] NXTCommBluecove

[Brian B. <bba...@mt...>]

Thanks, Peter. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. I think Lawrie took 
your code as a base and then expanded it a bit more. He's done some good 
work on his end. He changed the NXTComm interface to support multiple NXTs 
via a search (inquiry) method that returns an array of NXTInfo. Search is a 
little slow, but we might be able to store the address in a property file so 
it doesn't have to go through that each time.

He also added Java streams and support for the Lego Fantom driver via 
NXTCommFantom. There might also be the possibility of supporting USB if we 
wanted to, via NXTCommLibnxt, but that's something for another time. (Libusb 
is a seperate download.)

What I kind of like is his NXTCommFactory code, which checks the OS system 
and then automatically chooses the solution. It eliminates the need for the 
end user to know anything about Bluez, Bluecove, RXTX, etc... This could 
eliminate a lot of troublesome setup steps for end users.

- Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Joosten" <ptg...@up...>
To: "'Brian Bagnall'" <bba...@mt...>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: RE: NXTCommBluecove


>I will have a look at it this weekend.
>
> Peter Joosten.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Bagnall [mailto:bba...@mt...]
> Sent: vrijdag 20 juli 2007 21:35
> To: Peter Joosten
> Subject: NXTCommBluecove
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I was just checking out Lawrie's Bluecove code and it looks like it is 
> very
> similar to the NXTComm mechanism used in iCommand:
> - Add https://lejos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/lejos to Eclipse SVN
> - Browse to trunk - pccomms - lejos - pc - comm - NXTCommBluecove
>
> His NXTComm interface differs slightly from ours in a few minor ways, but
> basically the same. Since I'm not all that familiar with the NXTComm API I
> was wondering if you have time these days to port that over to iCommand? 
> If
> not, do you have any pointers for me or see any problems?
>
> - Brian
>
>
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