William, Presently, when you run lejosdl against an RCX without leJOS firmware, you will most likely get an "RCX not responding" error. So, in a manner of speaking, lejosdl "notices" that the firmware has not been downloaded to the RCX. But there's no "error recovering" in the sense of automatic fixing (e.g. by lejosdl starting firmdl). In a nutshell: the presence of a leJOS firmware on the RCX is a (not completely unreasonable) prelimitation for lejosdl working with that RCX.
To make lejosdl aware of the firmware not available on a RCX could be quite costly, for one had to distingusih between different possible reasons for a download failure - the RCX might not be switched on, ambient light, RCX too far away etc. The firmware not being present seems to be a more exotic failure reason to me in this context. With that in mind, one would prefer a more lightweight solution here, even more as firmware download to an RCX is usually required only once. It might be easier to ensure in the process that firmdl has been called at least once successfully, might it not? Regards, Matthias Paul William J. Rust wrote: > I think I finally have got the build.xml to the point of copying it into > an "RCX" project directory and it will just work. The question now is, > is there a programmatic way to check if the firmware is already > downloaded? That is, can Lejosdl automatically detect that an RCX is > present but without its firmware and, if so, download firmware before it > downloads the program? It would be helpful to be able to do that since > that would not require a separate step in the build process. > > Thanks, > > wjr > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Lejos-discussion mailing list Lejos-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lejos-discussion
