NetRexxify and new users.

[Jason Monroe Martin]

I have followed NetRexx since the late 1990's but did not have the time
to use anything or really understand/learn java. I have some stuff
archived from
way back least ten years or more. I had an old copy of NetRexxify and
converted
376 of the java samples in the Android SDK this week using
Xubuntu 10.10 and Sun's Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

1 sample failed because of DO DEPTH
2 Had exceptions
2 Ran to long for me and I killed them.
371 converted OK.

Kermit's Android Project is great but it took me awhile to
understand and get it running but once I did, I was really pleased.

But the really important part of that thread was René's statements about
java to NetRexx:

- optionally stripping off semicolons
- deleting the superfluous declarations
- stripping parentheses from typecasts
- changing curly braces '{' and '}' to 'do' and 'end'


This would be really helpful to new users trying to learn how use NetRexx.
Some kind of general Howto document on the site would be great.

I do not understand java enough to do it.

Again, I follow NetRexx because it is really is a beautiful piece of
software.


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[Kermit Kiser]

Oops! My bad - I did not think anyone else was using the Android IDE yet, so I have not been posting the update notifications.

I just downloaded the Android SDK R13 update, tools R12, and platform tools R6 and tested with my current modules.
It looked OK, so I uploaded the current IDE version as release 1.9 on my web site and my Kenai project site both.

http://kermitkiser.com/AndRexx/Android_Projects.html

I don't recall what update I last reported so here is the whole changelog:

Changelog

• 2011-07-30 == v1.9 - tested with SDK Tools R12 and platform tools R6. Updated uninstall_from_emulator macro to use adb uninstall. Improved adb server auto-start for faster installs.
  
• 2011-07-08 == v1.8 - modified to run on Unix systems (I tested on Ubuntu and Win 7) and SDK Tools R12. The uninstall_from_emulator macro is not a reliable way to uninstall from late Android versions.
  Also the Android 1.5 build fix is no longer needed - they finally fixed what they broke and thus broke what I fixed!
  
• 2011-07-06 == v1.7 - replaced .bsh files with .nrx files, fixed problems with servers not detached automatically and workfiles not auto-closed, moved Beanshell interface to new shell.nrx module, added new project base directory property to save typing
• 2011-05-18 == v1.6 - updated netrexx_build.xml for new SDK Tools r11 - property var for lib dir changed. The new platform-tools directory must be added to the OS path now as adb.exe has moved. (Previous support was only tested for r5, r6, r7)
  
• 2010-05-27 == v1.5 - updated new_project.nrx for new SDK Tools rev 6 dir structures, patch to emulator.nrx for output format changed in "android list avd" cmd
  
• 2010-02-16 == v1.4 - added widget_provider.xml and updated new_project.nrx to create widget projects as well as activity projects (or both in one)
• 2010-01-13 == v1.3 - add release build support with digital signing for Android 1.5 , fix release_build macro to call build-release target
• 2010-01-07 == v1.2 - add debug build support for Android 1.5 platform (Google tech changed the build files radically at 1.6)
• 2010-01-07 == v1.1 - add start_debug_monitor macro to start Android debug GUI (DDMS) (better than adb logcat to monitor logs plus has screen capture support)
• 2010-01-04 == v1.0 - initial release with new project, build, updater and emulator support for Android platform 1.6/2.0

BTW: The NetRexxify release does not have source code, so I don't think it is open source. Anyway it would be great if we could update the NetRexx translator to translate Java to NetRexx as well as NetRexx to Java!

-- KK


On 7/30/2011 5:14 PM, Jason Monroe Martin wrote:

I have followed NetRexx since the late 1990's but did not have the time
to use anything or really understand/learn java. I have some stuff archived from
way back least ten years or more. I had an old copy of NetRexxify and converted
376 of the java samples in the Android SDK this week using
Xubuntu 10.10 and Sun's Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)

1 sample failed because of DO DEPTH
2 Had exceptions
2 Ran to long for me and I killed them.
371 converted OK.

Kermit's Android Project is great but it took me awhile to
understand and get it running but once I did, I was really pleased.

But the really important part of that thread was René's statements about java to NetRexx:

- optionally stripping off semicolons
- deleting the superfluous declarations
- stripping parentheses from typecasts
- changing curly braces '{' and '}' to 'do' and 'end'


This would be really helpful to new users trying to learn how use NetRexx.
Some kind of general Howto document on the site would be great.

I do not understand java enough to do it.

Again, I follow NetRexx because it is really is a beautiful piece of software.


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[Fernando Cassia-2]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 00:29, Kermit Kiser <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Also the Android 1.5 build fix is no longer needed - they finally fixed what
> they broke and thus broke what I fixed!

LOL isn´t the software world "fun"? There´s always work to do. ;)

FC

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[Robert L Hamilton]

It would seem easy to test NetRexxify.  Run the resulting NetRexx thru NetRexxDE in jEdit and check the .keep file.

Bob Hamilton

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Fernando Cassia <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 00:29, Kermit Kiser <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Also the Android 1.5 build fix is no longer needed - they finally fixed what
> they broke and thus broke what I fixed!

LOL isn´t the software world "fun"? There´s always work to do. ;)

FC

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