Networking Test Update: Fixed Phone Layout

I updated NetworkingTest today to fix how it scales for phone screens.  Now, the tabbed UI gives you a better view of your received packets while improving the layout of the settings dialog.  Feature wise, nothing has changed.  This update only fixes a few bugs (see Google Play for more information) and fixes the scaling issue.

I highly recommend that you update to the latest version.

Thanks for stopping by!

Chris

Monterey: Updater

(images from the author of the Fervor updater library)

I love adding new features to ROV-Suite to make it the best application for driving ROVs that you can find. I really do.  Since most of the base functionality is down (I still need to work on IP camera support and more debugging options), I'm starting to play around with new libraries to add useful features.  For instance, I'll be adding a library soon (shown above) that will alert the user when a newer version of Monterey is available and it will show the user a download URL.  I've been looking at the download numbers at ROV-Suite's SourceForge page, and it looks like most people aren't updating their older versions of Monterey to the latest version.  Maybe it's because they grabbed it early and used the Dropbox link that I put out, or maybe they just haven't checked back in with the project yet.  Either way, by adding this updater (which can be disabled from the preference pane), the user will be alerted to any newer versions, which often include bug fixes and awesome new features!

In other news, ROV-Suite has been well past the 100 downloads mark (56ish due to NetworkingTest alone) for quite a while now.  Monterey is pulling close to that threshold with 80 downloads so far (as of today)!  I'm looking forward to posting about the 100th download of Monterey which I have a feeling will be pretty soon!

Also, I'm not sure if I mentioned this already or not, but the early version of the bottomside software is already on the SourceForge page!  You can view it in the repo here.  Since it's a fairly simple setup, I'm not going to put it in the downloads page.  I'll start doing that later when I have a bunch of 3rd party libraries included with it.

If you have used Monterey to drive an ROV already or if you have any feedback, please let me know!  I'd love to post a quick blog entry with photos and a story or two. And, as always, feedback is very welcomed!

Thanks!

Chris K

Edit:  Apparently there have been 92(!) downloads of Monterey at Softpedia!

New Networking Test!

The latest and greatest version of Networking Test has just been released! This new version adds two new features: port sharing and autosending.  The autosending feature lets you put in a delay (measured in seconds) which is then used to time the automatic sending of packets.  It's pretty useful!  Another feature is the port sharing.  In Windows that was default, but in OSX* and Linux you had to request that on your own.  Now, Networking Test shouldn't try to lock out other applications that try to access the specified UDP port, which makes it more useful for debugging your own applications.

Head on over to Sourceforge and download the file!

Chris K


*Qt did say that Unix systems disregard the request for a shared port, but they didn't specify if OSX shared that behavior or not.  I know that OSX is based on Unix, but they often aren't lumped together in the same category in the Qt documentation.

NetworkingTest

Good news!  I've been working on touching up my UDP networking tools (NetworkingTest).  I've added a timestamped logging feature, cleaned up the code, fixed a bug, fixed the keyboard shortcuts and added an icon!  Plus, I have re-released the code onto my Sourceforge project.  You can find the executable here.  For the meantime, I have only released the OSX version.  I will recompile it on Windows and upload that ASAP.

The Android version of NetworkingTest has received a similar update (without the new icon, although I will probably change it's icon to the newer, improved one).  I will upload the *.apk of the Android version soon!

Chris K