enttec dmx pro java driver Files

README.txt

Manifest
Dmx.java – Enttec Pro dmx drive source code
Monitor.java – the dmx monitor screen
README.txt – this file.


Dmx.java
Provides and interface to the Enttec Pro DMX widget.
This is NOT for open dmx.  The Pro widget actually has its own cpu
and maintains a copy of all the dmx values, so it offloads all the work from the 
host cpu – open dmx has the cpu driving it all.

The source is fairly well commented and implements most of the features you would expect:
open, close, set a channel value, get a channel value, get the serial number etc.
It also provides a gui for monitoring the DMX channels – I find that extreemly helpful.
Thats what the Monitor.java class is for.
If you dont want to use Monitor.java your going to have to fiddle with the source a bit, but its nothing thats all that complecated.

Monitor.java
Provides a gui to watch the DMX channels.
Very helpful.

Dependencies
This requires the RXTX libraries to be installed (ie to access the serial port from java)
I found that the hardest part was just finding them (and that was not all that hard).
Installing them is little more than placing a jar file in the ext directory of the java run time.
(that was just about embarrassingly easy)



Support/Payment.
I put this in the public domain because its just a driver that took me a whole 3 hours to go from concept to finished product (or at least the state that its in). 
Expecting someone to pay for this (in my opinion) is silly.
Use it for free with my blessing.
If you would like, slip me $5 via paypal and I will be grateful, but if you cant (or just dont want to) its no biggie, the opensource community has given me far more than I have given it.
I use these library's in several lighting products I have been fiddling with for years so they are in production and seem to be well behaved. Other than that, you are on your own :)

Feel free to contact me at dke@thirdhemisphere.com, I will reply or ignore you at my whim :)