[drats_users] D-RATS DV Dongle Testing w/DVTool 2.0beta 2

[Dan Smith]

> I am pleased to report that the D-RATS Dv Dongle connection works! A
> couple of minor anomalies not withstanding, it connects and
> functions normally. Great Job.

Excellent!  I haven't had a chance to test it, but I'm glad it's working.

> 1. When you send a chat message in DRATS through the dongle the " 
> Transmitting " message appears in the status bar of DVTool. This
> doesn't go off until the dongle sees activity from another station or
> you manually hit the transmit button in DVTool. Further testing
> indicates that the dongle does not keep transmitting as the status
> bar indicates and does in fact act as it should the only difference
> being that the status bar does not indicate the correct condition (it
> should indicate the length of the transmission) The strange thing
> here is that when I start DRATS and it transmits my online message,
> the dongle acts normally (the transmitting message goes out after a
> few seconds)

Okay, not sure about this, you'll need to ask Robin about it.  D-RATS
sends the data over the socket to DVTool, but that's the end of the
interaction.  My guess would be that DVTool needs some adjustment on the
timer (and or UI synchronization thereof) it uses to determine when the
socket client is transmitting or not.

> 2. The addition of launching the Proxy from the client is a good
> idea. The only thing to remember is that you have to restart the
> client after the proxy is running. This is nothing new., but now with
> the ability to launch the proxy from the client, users need to be
> aware that the need to restart the client in order to connect to the
> proxy.

Actually, if you just go into preferences and hit save to get out, it
will re-open the connections.  Further, if you have D-RATS set to
connect to, say, localhost then if you start D-RATS and then start the
proxy within, a few seconds later the auto-reconnect logic *should*
connect up.

> Dan, let me know if you think it appropriate to post on the DV Dongle
> board?

Yes, the first issue should go to Robin.

> Also, let me know if you want a Trac Ticket on these. They are so 
> minor.

I'm not sure the second one is really an issue, it's more of just a
procedural note.  I really only put that in for the MacOS users as a
workaround for the way applications are packages on MacOS.  Can you
think of something specific that needs to happen to address this?

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