Category Archives: GNU

GNU Xnee 3.15 (‘Shankar’) released

Posted on by sandklef 
We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.15

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
    Automate tests
    Demonstrate programs
    Distribute actions
    Record and replay 'macro'
    Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.15.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.15.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

   http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums

  md5sum:
    32c8ac9f354741f03d7736383599984e  xnee-3.15.tar.gz

  cksum:
    3996773279 1776676 xnee-3.15.tar.gz

New in this release

  * Fixed bugs:

    Savannah:
      bug #36662: 2 extra lines, not really needed, printed to recorded log files
      bug #37895: pnee/data/pnee.server.in file missing in 3.14 tarball?

    address@hidden
      xnee patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Why 'Shankar'?
 In December 2012 Ravi Shankar passed away. This is a way to pay tribute.

 

 

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GNU Xnee 3.14 (‘Lord Pi’) released

Posted on by sandklef

We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.14

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute  user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:

  • Automate tests
  • Demonstrate programs
  • Distribute actions
  • Record and replay ‘macro’
  • Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.14.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.14.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums

md5sum:

04d3256be296d624979940ac2c6b5e8b xnee-3.14.tar.gz

cksum:

3927134133 1772509 xnee-3.14.tar.gz

New in this release:

If XInput is present, record only XI events (discard core events).

Forced core replay is now done using XI events (if no core events are available).

* Fixed bugs:

Bug-xnee mailing list: “WARNING: Enough valuators … still not printing”

About calling the release “Lord Pi”

We’re still following the tradition to pay tribute to old heroes who have passed away. A while ago Jon Lord (Deep Purple among other bands) passed away. Even though Deep Purple never was one of my favorite bands, they and Jon still had an impact in my life. Listen to Stormbringer, Perfect stranger and Machine head and you’ll know why. Jon’s keyboard playing is a vital part of the Deep Purple sound. That explains the “Lord” part of “Lord Pi”. The “Pi” part is of course due to the version number “3.14”, which is the three first digits of Pi.

 

Nomination period open for Nordic Free Software Award 2012

Posted on by sandklef

About
The Nordic Free Software Award is given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software. The award will be announced during FSCONS 2012 in Gothenburg.

Nominate

You nominate your candidate(s) via FSFE‘s web site:

http://fsfe.org/activities/nordic-free-software-award/

The nomination period ends October 14

Join the award committee
Send an email to award [AT] fscons.org (moderated mailing list) with the following information:

  • Your name
  • Your email
  • Motivation why you want to join the award committee

Previous Award winners

Searduino needs a gui

Posted on by sandklef

Do you want to write a gui front-end to Searduino?

 

About Searduino:

Searduino is made to ease and speed up development for the Arduino boards. In short, with Searduino you get

  • C/C++ interface – use C/C++ to program your Arduino boards
  • Makefiles – easy to use Makefiles for inclusion in your project
  • Stand alone program – build your Arduino code to run on your local computer instead
  • Simulator – run your Arduino code in a simulator to test it
  • Simulation API – write your own test cases in C/C++
  • Python simulation API – write your tests in Python
  • Arduino example (to C/C++) translation

About the gui

In a way searduino has a gui – We have been developing a gui written Python (pygtk) to make sure we write the underlying library in a way that makes it easy to develop a real gui. So there is a gui but no proper one. Anyhow, here’s a snapshot of the (non proper) Python gui:

Searduino's simulator GUI - written in PyGtk

 

We believe that the gui needs to be written in C/C++ and using a thread safe graphical toolkit. The speed which which the callbacks call the gui require as short path as possible from the source to the handler and as already mentioned that the toolkit is thread safe (the Arduin ocode is executed in a thread). There is however a threshold for max updates per second which can be used but we still believe that C/C++ is the best way – but don’t hesitate to contact us (see email address below) if you believe differently.

Want to join?

If you like creating guis and want to help out on Searduino – send an email to hesa -at- sandklef.com

Btw: the python gui was also used to test Searduino’s Python extension

 

This post was originally posted at: http://itupw185.itu.chalmers.se/searduino/

Examples in manuals – how to verify (test) them

Posted on by sandklef

I’ve gotten some just comments as feedback for the examples in the Searduino Manuals. Searduino is a software to make it easy to program C/C++ for Arduino, a simulator for source level Arduino API, … and more.

Problem is the following: I’d written some examples to make it easy to get started with Searduino. After some weeks of updates to the code the examples were not correct anymore. What good is it to have examples if they don’t work? But on the other hand, it’s really a pain in the ¤/&% to have to update example code. We need a way to test example code in manuals and to automate the tests!

Copying/pasting code from a manual is not something that is not desired (error prune to say one problem). So how to find some middle ground here? Is there any software for this?

My temporary solution was to write all examples as C files and Makefiles and to write some scripts to

  • convert a C file to texinfo file (c2texi)
  • convert a Makefile file to texinfo file (makefile2texi)

and then include the generated texi files in the manual (written in Texinfo). Will probably do the same for GNU Xnee

There must be  a better way … or?

 

GNU Xnee 3.12 (‘Hannes’) released

Posted on by sandklef

We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.12

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
Automate tests
Demonstrate programs
Distribute actions
Record and replay ‘macro’
Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.12.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.12.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

md5sum:
c2a74e8d1f3965c5f3b47aadb40ba5e3  xnee-3.12.tar.gz

cksum:
2575836771 1798047 xnee-3.12.tar.gz

New in this release
===================

* New option: –record-replay, -rr
Record and replay a session (press q to stop recording)

* Fixed bugs:

Savannah
bug #35029, Segmentation fault when using stop…

…. for Hannes

GNU Xnee 3.11 (‘Jansch’) released

Posted on by sandklef 
We are pleased to announce the availability of GNU Xnee 3.11

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute
user actions under the X11 environment. Think of it as a robot that can
imitate the job you just did. GNU Xnee can be used to:
    Automate tests
    Demonstrate programs
    Distribute actions
    Record and replay 'macro'
    Retype the content of a file

Getting the Software
====================

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.11.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.11.tar.gz.sig

or one of the mirror sites as found in:

   http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Checksums
===========

  md5sum:
     f2c15ebdda44480ac59c0048a2809f09  xnee-3.11.tar.gz

  cksum:
     1228726175 1788094 xnee-3.11.tar.gz

New in this release
===================

   * Fixed bugs:

     Savannah:
       #30137: gnee crashes on Ubuntu 10.04

     Recording in X.org > 1.11 does not work 

     Fedora / Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 757733

     Mem error when distributing to multiple displays

... and the name 'Jansch'? It's a tribute to Bert Jansch, who died 5 October 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Jansch