malcom2073's EMStudio development thread. (Comments welcome)

[Preston]

Ok, as in how new?

Off the top of my head I think I'm using "debian squeeze 6.0.4"

When I apt-get install I can not find "libqt4-declarative" as per the EMStudio website is that also my retardedness? An yes I did update first

Preston.

[Fred]

Debian comes in two flavours: Prehistoric and BleedingEdgeNew

If you're not using unstable, you're using something out of date.

[Dan]

If you're not using unstable, you're using something out of date.

I like this statement! This should be added to something like a FreeEMS commandment set or something....

LOL

[Fred]

With respect to Debian, unstable means a specific thing ;-)

[malcom2073]

Ok, as in how new?

Off the top of my head I think I'm using "debian squeeze 6.0.4"

When I apt-get install I can not find "libqt4-declarative" as per the EMStudio website is that also my retardedness? An yes I did update first

Preston.

As Fred said, use something new. Less than a year old or so, so yeah Debian stable is forever out of the question, sorry.

[malcom2073]

Are .bin and .meta.json log files created on a winblows install?

Should be, but only after you've managed to connect. If you don't see them, then you're not connecting at all.

I checked the COM port in winblows and it is correct (COM1) I'm using this laptop as it has a built in serial port to eliminate any adapter issues.

Excellent. So we've ruled that out, my next guess would be that something else is messed up. Perhaps try Megatunix? If you're not generating .bin files, then you're not connecting to the COM port, so I assume something is phyiscally or driver-wise broken (The latter not likely with a hardware serial port)

Testing is what I'm here for, so I grabbed one my other laptops that's loaded with Debian and attempted a install of EMStudio, but failed at that also, I see there is information on installs for poobuntu.... any chance some info on whats needed to build this on Debian.

See my above post, upgrade to a newer OS

I second that... I have no idea if it's me being a retard (highly likely) or just a software issue.

Also I have noticed that when I open EMStudio the lower and right hand side of app is off the screen.
If I select edit --> settings : the window has to be stretched to show the buttons.
I will try and get some screen shots and upload them shortly.

Preston.

Yeah I need to fix window sizes on windows. And a more descriptive interrogation debug view is pretty much top of my list once I have more free time to code again.

[malcom2073]

http://mikesshop.net/EMStudio/ has now been updated to include development builds. Preston: You should try one of them, and see if that gives you any more information on where it's failing.

[malcom2073]

First page now has a screenshot of the Interrogation status display, currently in the development build

[Fred]

(13:06:08) Fred: sudo dpkg -i emstudio_DEV_0.0.1-2012-08-28_10-16-00_i386.deb
(13:11:35) Fred: sudo apt-get install -f
(13:13:44) Daniel: error while loading shared libraries: libqwt.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(13:15:33) Fred: apt-get install libqwt6
(13:17:00) Daniel: Error parsing JSON from config file on line number: 1954039072 error text:

[Fred]

The above items are fixed and current dev build (5ca211) working sweet on ubuntu 12.04 32 bit in Auckland NZ. Thanks for the quick support, Mike! :-)