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Parallax Windows IDE works on Linux/Wine

blittleblittle Posts: 19
edited 2007-10-08 03:15 in General Discussion
Just wanted to let people know that the current version (2.3.3) of the Parallax Windows IDE works fine running under Wine on my Ubuntu 7.04 system.

The only extra step required for me to use FTDI usb to serial adaptor was to remove the brltty package and link /dev/ttyUSB0 to ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1 .

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Bill

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  • pwillardpwillard Posts: 321
    edited 2007-09-19 02:46
    SWEET! Good to know. Thanks.

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  • blittleblittle Posts: 19
    edited 2007-09-21 00:14
    After testing for a few days....
    The explore pane in the IDE causes faults, but if you turn that off, everything else has worked great.
    I know I'm quite happy.
    The linux software for the bstamp pretty much sucks.
    Side note: If anyone figures out how to get the linux tools http://bstamp.sourceforge.net/ working with gedit please let me know.
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    Bill
  • crgwbrcrgwbr Posts: 614
    edited 2007-09-23 00:53
    I've tried running the prop tool and bstamp IDE with wine. FOr me, it runs, but all the text is way too small to read. Anyone Know of a fix for that?

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  • blittleblittle Posts: 19
    edited 2007-09-23 14:56
    apt-get install msttcorefonts
    ?

    Bill
  • Chris MerckChris Merck Posts: 55
    edited 2007-10-05 17:23
    My prop tool installed, but it cannot see the serial device. The Propeller DEMO board is plugged into a USB port.

    I am on Ubuntu Feisty, I dont have britty installed, and I did do ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ~/.wine/dosdevices/com1

    Any ideas? Btw the winehq listing says that the prop tool communication does not work... I am hoping to disprove that!

    Thanks,
    -nava
  • Harrison.Harrison. Posts: 484
    edited 2007-10-05 18:01
    It doesn't work because of the way the com ports are enumerated and opened by the propeller tool. You'll have to wait for a version that lets you explicitly set the com port you want to use.

    Not only that, but the tool uses NTConnectPort I believe, which isn't fully supported in Wine (I believe it's a stub function). I tried all sorts of things (such as using windows dlls, etc) and I almost got it to actually enumerate the ports. But then it broke when actually trying to connect to the port.

    Harrison
  • blittleblittle Posts: 19
    edited 2007-10-08 03:15
    For clarity, the parallax software I'm using is BASIC Stamp Windows Editor version 2.3.3 from here: http://www.parallax.com/html_pages/downloads/software/software_basic_stamp.asp
    My wine version is wine-0.9.33.
    I am using this to program my bs2.
    Apologies for the lack of specificity.
    It has been working fine, aside from a few small GUI bugs I've found since I posted.
    Apparently it works fine initiating communications with the stamp, but uses a different method to talk to the propeller.?
    Or is this an altogether different tool?

    Note to Parallax: Please consider releasing your programming tools as open source, even if you keep the tokenizer proprietary. We shouldn't have to deal with issues like this. It's unnecessary, and makes the alternatives look friendlier (hint arduino).
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