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| Topic: | Just an idea :-) This thread has 8 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday May 5, 2001 at 15:45 |
I've been snooping around this site for a while now and some of you might recognise me, I've posted a few times, here's my thought....
With all the people getting frustrated with PE I was wondering if anybody out there would be able to re-write - redesign the software. I realize that this is a major task but I know that there are some very talented programmers out there. I know that cost would be a factor but I would be willing to buy a copy and I'm sure that many others out there would as well. Just a thought!!!
Roy
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| OP | Post 2 made on Saturday May 5, 2001 at 20:18 |
Leo Davidson Historic Forum Post |
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The idea has come up before and I think someone is currently working on a Java ProntoEdit which will hopefully be better than the real thing and also be nice for people who don't want to use Windows as their OS. I think there's a thread or two about it in these forums.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Sunday May 6, 2001 at 02:55 |
Daniel Tonks Historic Forum Post |
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Yup, someone is working on it.
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| OP | Post 4 made on Sunday May 6, 2001 at 08:36 |
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| OP | Post 5 made on Sunday May 6, 2001 at 19:56 |
Peter Dewildt Historic Forum Post |
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Estimates for rewriting ProntoEdit are in the 1 to 2 person-year range.
I haven't heard from the Java guy for a while. I suspect he may have shelved it for the moment as it has turned out to be a very major effort.
However, he was also working on a program that would just do the comms to/from the Pronto. That was looking most promising.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Sunday May 6, 2001 at 22:51 |
Peter Dewildt Historic Forum Post |
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Just made contact with the guy. He hasn't got that far to go. He's been working on it for over 2 months now.
He has been having some trouble with the comms. The Pronto is touchy with different serial ports, and is extremely sensitive to either minute timings or other implementation differences. This provides a bit of an insight into why some machcines have comms problems and others do not.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Monday May 7, 2001 at 07:55 |
TeddyD Historic Forum Post |
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but will it run in Windows???? the above post from Leo gives me the impression that it wont..... hmm? I wonder
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| OP | Post 8 made on Monday May 7, 2001 at 09:51 |
Anthony Historic Forum Post |
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If it is Java it should be platform independent
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| OP | Post 9 made on Monday May 7, 2001 at 19:53 |
Peter Dewildt Historic Forum Post |
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It does run on Windows. You have to download the Sun Java virtual machine though.
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