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mathdon · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject:

I have now posted RMIR v2.01 Alpha 2. Itadds two features to the first Alpha:

(a) Highlighting is now an option, off by default. Select the Options/Highlighting menu item to turn it on. The state is retained in the Properties file between invocations;

(b) A File/Set Directory menu item with sub-items to change the RDF and Map/Image folders.

The user interface for changing folders has also been changed, to one that displays the directory tree.

As usual, please post comments in this thread.
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mathdon · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:20 pm Post subject:

I have now posted RMIR v2.01 Alpha 3. It adds the following features:

(a) An "Advanced" menu with items for Clean Upper Memory, Initialize to $00, Initialize to $FF.

(b) A new item "Install Extender" on the File menu, which is an incorporation of ExtInstall into RMIR.

The items under (a) should work as in IR.exe. The two Initialize items have not been tested. I don't understand their purpose, but they have been asked for by Capn Trips. Perhaps someone who understands them can test them, please.

There are differences, which I hope are improvements, between the "Install Extender" of RMIR and the "Merge Using ExtInstall" of IR.exe:

These changes to the behavior of the command line version of ExtInstall are possibe since the inbuilt copy of ExtInstall.jar is used as a library rather than being executed directly.

If the RDF is unique then it is simply a matter of selecting "Install Extender" from the menu, choosing the extender .hex file in the dialog window that then opens, and pressing OK. That's it. The RMIR display changes to show the result of the merge.

So far it has only been tested with my own extender for the URC-7781, so it will not be surprising if there are undiscovered issues. Please try it and report any problems in this thread.
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xnappo · Expert Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 861

I would like to discuss a couple of change requests:

1. I would like to see the 'Import' button in the RM-IR upgrade editor removed. I think it will be confusing to new users. We could replace it instead with a special 'Edit->Paste Upgrade' option.

2. This one is a lot more complex. Right now when you have an internal upgrade assigned, the 'Edit' button is grayed out (because there is of course no 'soft' upgrade). Long term, it would be nice to be able to get the 'Lookup Tool' data into RM-IR itself so we could provide a full editor, however short term, can we do something to allow the editor to assign keycode keymoves and even perhaps add additional functions?

Thanks for your consideration!

xnappo

The Robman · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:17 pm Post subject:

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

vickyg2003 · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject:

I name them like this RemoteMasterA3.Jar, and then I click on that file to start it. Then when I go from my menu I get the current release, but when I go into test I click on the current test jar in my RM folder.
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mathdon · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:07 am Post subject:

gfb107 · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 3411 Location: Cary, NC

I've built RMIR v2.01 alpha 4.

I've changed the paste function in tables to recognized when the clipboard has HTML text available as well as plain text. When there is HTML text, it'll look for table rows and cells within the HTML fragment, pull out the contents of the cells and paste that. This change is in response to this. Please test, as I am concerned there are other copy'n'paste from a browser scenarios that may break.

Plain text should work just like before.
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vickyg2003 · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:19 am Post subject:

mathdon · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:17 am Post subject:

I have now posted RMIR v2.01 alpha 5. This improves the handling of ExtInstall within RMIR. As first posted, in alpha 3, it did not handle properly the use of ExtInstall to re-install an extender when the installed version had been corrupted or superseded. That situation should be handled correctly in alpha 5.
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gfb107 · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 3411 Location: Cary, NC

I have uploaded RMIR v2.01 alpha 6 with there changes:

Restore paste function
Add "Paste (IE)" for pasting multi-column data from IE (Windows only)
Fix pasting EFC5s
Move EFC5 column before EFC column on Functions tab for remotes that use EFC5.

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vickyg2003 · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:33 pm Post subject:

gfb107 · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 3411 Location: Cary, NC

vickyg2003 · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:23 pm Post subject: