On 08.06.2010 16:48, Larry Becker wrote: > Seems like GPSylon is a large program and you only need the small > portion ( gpsinput library?) that communicates with GPS devices, but > apparently that library depends on external code. > > (From the GPSylon web site): "The library that is used to communicate > with the gps device can be used independently and is provided as a > separate jar file (since version 0.5)".
That's the plan, gpsylon is actually a suite of tools (jars). What's missing is somebody volunteering or paying for the modifications. ..ede > > Larry > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:19 AM, <edgar.sol...@web.de > <mailto:edgar.sol...@web.de>> wrote: > > > the old version is dead, there was an updated version which > was supposed > to work on various platforms 2 years ago. > i think they developed into .. > http://www.tegmento.org/gpsylon/ > > > Last update to GPSylon was more than three years ago. Is it reliable > enough to use or should everything be made again with some other > library? > Gpsd http://gpsd.berlios.de/ seems to be rather commonly used > but the > developers say that it will never support Windows which is not > so great > news. > > > gpsd is not java based. I'd rather use as less platform dependent > code as possible. > But as GPS data is generally a plain text serial protocol one could > of course use data from a gpsd source and let gpsylon interpret it. > There seems to be a windows alternative as well > http://code.google.com/p/gpsd-4-win/ . I dimly remember tat gpsylon > supported this type of input. > > gpsylon worked reliably then .. question is if the binary serial > libraries work with windows 7 / vista ... they are readymade > compiled for XP/NT .. it looks like it is possible to compile > mingw32 version of the underlying http://rxtx.qbang.org/ rxtx library. > > Hence even if the serial input does not work, gpsylon still has > value in interpreting the gps data. > > .. ede > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
