FreeEMS-Tuner Development Diary - Comments

[sry_not4sale]

I ran the app on a win xp box earlier with the following three installers and zero hassle :

python-2.6.msi
pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe
wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.9.1-py26.exe

This code :

srynot4sale-freeems-tuner-0dc626c05aff767a7a97e1d76465b85893a58109

Aaron, are you familiar with the bundling program? You can wrap up all the code and interpretter etc in a single ball of runable app installable by another thingy. Karsten knows how to do it, if you don't, contact him

Fred.

No idea I am afraid, so I will talk to him

[Fred]

Aaron : very much appreciate the "wanna connect??" dialog, much faster that way!! cheers!
Ben : cheers for the hex display, good work, much better!

Fred.

[Fred]

Good work, I'll give it a shot this evening, are there any specific issues you are confident it will solve?

This morning I drew up some JSON files :

error id : error desc

and

location id : menu name

I'm not sure if you'll like the format, and the location one is temporary till i get a solid full description json sorted, but it will enable you to continue to make progress and it will enable me to use it effectively and add locations as fast as i can code to use them :-)

Will deliver those files to both of you this evening when I get home after a few celebratory "finished on the DB project" drinks.

Fred.

[jharvey]

About the openGL stuff, is there a python add-on to something you are using to do this? Kind of like py.serial. I haven't tried the latest git yet, but wanted to ask about the eye candy.

[sry_not4sale]

Not sure of the dependencies. Prob the opengl library and the pyopengl bridge.

[jharvey]

So I got to the point where the install instructions tell me

"Once you have setuptools installed (many Python developers already will have it), simply issue the command:
easy_install PyOpenGL"

However, I've tried that command on both cmd and in the pyton command window and it give me nasty error messages. Seems like the python command window is where it should be run, here's the error from python

>>> easy_install PyOpenGL
Traceback ( File "<interactive input>", line 1
easy_install PyOpenGL
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

Does this mean I failed at the ez_setup.py part, or am I tossing that command in the wrong spot?

Other notes, python 2.6 on a win 2000 machine.

[Fred]

I've raised a new mantis (for a feature that I think is key to the future of this app) and commented a bunch on the others after further testing. You nearly had me convinced that I had a bug in mine for a bit there! But I'm pretty certain it's yours now after what I've found :-)

Jared : http://www.diyefi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=519

Edit, just reaslised you are trying to do the opengl stuff...

I'll have to add that to the thread when there is a version to test it against ;-)

Fred.

[Fred]

http://freeems.aaronb.info/tracker/view.php?id=74

updated, should be easy picking now :-)

Fred.

[jharvey]

I just did a new wget -rF http://github.com/srynot4sale/freeems-tuner.git/ now it's broken. I'm sure that means I need to be patient and that it's being worked on right? Here's the message I got.

No handlers could be found for logger "root"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\\STRIPED\FreeEMS-Tuner\github.com\srynot4sale\freee
ms-tuner.git\main.py", line 34, in <module>
comms.loadDefault()
File "\\STRIPED\FreeEMS-Tuner\github.com\srynot4sale\freee
ms-tuner.git\comms\__init__.py", line 44, in loadDefault
path = 'comms.'+comms
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'NoneType' objects

[Fred]

He hasn't touched it for 2 days and I ran the latest last night against my code ;-) Your stuff is broken (again lol).

If you are going to get it regularly, setup git and just do git pull each time you want the latest.

If you are going to do it sporadically just download it from here :

http://github.com/srynot4sale/freeems-tuner/tree/master

Git should be installable in any linux. Ben has it running in windows too.

The key thing with git is that its a distributed control system. Thus he checks in his changes locally (like I do) and then pushes them up to the server in working chunks (like I can't). I intend to setup a git branch of my code soon (after the next release probably) such that it is really easy to keep track of changes and watch what others do with it and release snapshots by just commiting to the master branch on the server.

I recommend setting up git as you'll need it to stay involved with the firmware too soon :-)

Fred.