Adm Version 0.4 Release Notes

1. Overview:

This release includes few new widgets and some new BeanInfo classes compared with previous release 0.3. Some of the widgets are also improved and extended. The two types of jar file are provided for run time use and for visual development IDE use.

2. New and changes:

The adm.event package is created and CAdaptor, CDirectoryEvent and CDirectoryListener classes are moved to this package. CTraceEvenet and CTraceListener are added to this package.
The new CCartesian widget and the data model CTrace are included in this release.
CDirectory class is extended to support the class name, device name and property type query.
The CLabel and CTextField are modified to work with the device property with string value and numerical value.
Some bugs are fixed.
More BeanInfo classes and bean icons are included in this release. The CStripChart and CCartesian beans can be used in visual IDE.
The class documents are greatly enhanced.
The Makefile is improved to create two jar files (one for run time and another one for visual development IDE).

3. Limitations:

In this release, the beans rely on the control system to provide correct display range if the RANGE_FROM_PROPERTY style is selected. The user should set range style to RANGE_STATIC or RANGE_AUTO if the display high and display low have not been set properly.
The custom property editor for CMenuButton bean is not provided in this release. It can only been used in non-visual development.
This package is still in a early development stage, the beans are only been tested in NT and Linux platforms. Please report the problems and bugs to cdev@jlab.org.

4. System requirements:

Java 1.1.7 or higher is required. 1.1.8 and 1.2.2 versions of Java are recommend. They can be downloaded from the java.sun.com web site.
Java CDEV version 2.2.1 is also required. They are available on Java cdev web site.
This release was tested under Linux Red Hat 6.0 and Windows 98 and NT 4.0 using java 1.1.8 and java 1.2.2.

5. Installation:

Download the tar file from Java cdev web site. Unpack the tar file using the tar utility. The tar files are organized as follows:


                                        CDEVHOME
         ___________________________________|_______________________
        |             |                 |           |               |
    admREADME        adm             adm.jar   adm_develop.jar    admdoc
            __________|____________                                 |
           |       |      |        |                              *.html
        *.java   *.gif  event    Makefile                               
                     _____|_____
                    |           |
                   *.java      *.gif

The document web pages generated by javadoc are under admdoc directory. They can also be created using make file provided in adm directory (run "make admdoc").

There are two jar files provided in this release. The adm.jar file contains only none-BeanInfo class and used in the run time. It is relatively smaller than adm_develop.jar file. The adm_develop.jar contains all class files, including the BeanInfo classes, and all image files needed by the visual builder tool. These two jar files can be created by run "make admjar" on Unix or Linux platform. They are also available to download from the cdev web site.

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