Software License issues with RepRap Host

Personally I think it is best we try to avoid any kind of special library that has anti-commercial restrictions. In particular CloudGarden's Jigloo

Is this used heavily in the RepRap host software? It seems to me that it really isn't hard to code some of the places it is used (the extruder profiler dialog uses it, we are talking a simple GUI window with 6 or 8 controls).

Has this been discussed in detail?

// Stephen Gutknecht
/// Canyon Lake, TX

not really... i think it was used just to get us up and running. it would probably be trivial for someone with a working knowledge of java GUI to remove it. actually it would be nice to get a GUI person in general to help out.

RoundSparrow wrote:

> Personally I think it is best we try to avoid any
> kind of special library that has anti-commercial
> restrictions. In particular CloudGarden's Jigloo

AFAIK Jigloo is a code generator, not a library?
That is a significant difference when it comes to
licencing concerns...

> Is this used heavily in the RepRap host software?

Not any more. This has been a known issue for at least
a year or so, and there has been recent (December 2007)
discussion about it within the core team. We do want to
get rid of it, and in fact quite a bit of code that used to
use it no longer does so, I think.

As Zach said, anyone with Java GUI skills and a willingness
to eradicate the remaining Jigloo code is very welcome to
do that and submit patches. As we move towards a "real"
v1.0 Darwin release this year, that would be a very
helpful contribution to the project.

A simple survey of all .java files to see which ones still
have any Jigloo code in them would be a nice start. Is
this something you are willing and able to to take on?

Jonathan

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Jonathan

Yha, I can work on identifying this in the code. I mostly wanted to find out what was going on already in that area.

I'm hacking on the code, mostly to learn how it works, it will be a few weeks before I'm ready to actually submit something in a form that follows the existing code style.

// Stephen Gutknecht
// Canyon Lake, TX

RoundSparrow wrote:

> Yha, I can work on identifying this in the code.
> I mostly wanted to find out what was going on
> already in that area.
>
> I'm hacking on the code, mostly to learn how it
> works, it will be a few weeks before I'm ready to
> actually submit something in a form that follows
> the existing code style.

We have a coding style? :-)

Yes, that sounds cool. The word "Jigloo" appears in six of our
Java files:

* src/org/reprap/gui/extrudertest/Main.java
* src/org/reprap/gui/steppertest/LineTest.java
* src/org/reprap/gui/extruderprofile/Main.java
* src/org/reprap/gui/CalibrateZAxis.java
* src/org/reprap/gui/StatusMessage.java
* src/org/reprap/gui/ContinuationMesage.java

That may or may not be a good test...!

Jonathan

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Jonathan