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Just to let you know, Wendy no longer works for Whistler.
73, 88, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Hi guys! As all of you know, life brings change and with that I would like to take this opportunity to let you know that I have left my position at The Whistler Group to pursue a new challenge. As many of you who know me know that I have always walked the fence between technical and creative and...
The only documentation they will release has long been available on the download page of their website and is attached below.
They are protective about some aspects of the programming, but it was enough for someone to create TRX Android Suite
I find it interesting that the sample app is 60+ megabytes in size. Just seems ridiculous for what it actually does. And as stated sample code wouldn't necessarily mean releasing the full app codes. I was just interested in seeing how they handled some aspects of the features. Not a big deal it took me like 3 minutes to start sending and recieving data. Just a note real programmers offer sample code not sample programs. There is no telling what buried in 60+ meg. Often just bad programming.
All I'm saying is the more info released the more interest will span. The more apps availability the better off a system will be as far as support. The released info is very lacking to say the least. Sure some can figure it all out but that can be time consuming. Trial and error. And on another note what if the wrong command is sent and some how bricks a 500 dollar radio? Js.. I'd imagine that wouldn't be warranted. Again no big deal to me I have already got a good understanding of hexadecimal codes. I have read a few post referencing linux and othe OP's not having support.
Whistler has been reluctant to share any useful info the DRM Hack for Radioshack and GRE did not help with that matter either.
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You can contact Whistler support directly and ask them if they will provide the code samples. They are the only ones that could give out the reasons if they won't release the code. I'm sure others are interested, so please let us know what their reply is.
Click on this link, and hit the "Start Conversation" button (they have asked to be contacted in this way)
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PaulyWog, source code seems held close to the chest lately sometimes for the reason of intellectual property legalities within their contracts. On a second note along these lines, lately manufacturers seem to withhold anything that could be charged a fee or be serviced 'after a sale'. An example, Backup UPS's batteries sizes used to be listed on the user guide or .pdf manual (which also used to be included in the box but now a download). When I purchase a UPS, I want one with a more universal 'use' battery (as in a 12v-8ah generic sized 5.90"x2.50"x3.69" SLA battery) so I research a UPS using that sized battery. You would be hard pressed sometimes finding a decent UPS because they aren't listing the size battery for the most part (all they now say for the most part, is take it in for 'service', even though it can easily be user replaced). Good luck getting source code for anything lately, if you do get it don't share it unless you have permission to freely distribute it.
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PaulyWog, source code seems held close to the chest lately sometimes for the reason of intellectual property legalities within their contracts. On a second note along these lines, lately manufacturers seem to withhold anything that could be charged a fee or be serviced 'after a sale'. An example, Backup UPS's batteries sizes used to be listed on the user guide or .pdf manual (which also used to be included in the box but now a download). When I purchase a UPS, I want one with a more universal 'use' battery (as in a 12v-8ah generic sized 5.90"x2.50"x3.69" SLA battery) so I research a UPS using that sized battery. You would be hard pressed sometimes finding a decent UPS because they aren't listing the size battery for the most part (all they now say for the most part, is take it in for 'service', even though it can easily be user replaced). Good luck getting source code for anything lately, if you do get it don't share it unless you have permission to freely distribute it. .
It likely has to do with the tools used to create the app.
When I first started programming on a PC in the early 80s, I decided to write the same program in 3 languages and compare the result. In QuickBasic (which is compiled), the sole line of code was CLS. The resulting EXE file was 32K. It took me around 11 lines of code in assembly to make a BIOS call to perform the same function, but I was able to get that down to a 9 byte COM file. When writing the same thing in C, the linker added stuff to the code that wasn't needed (although not as bad as QB) and I ended up with a few hundred byte EXE file. Getting that to convert to a COM file was more challenging than just writing in assembly in the first place.
Modern Windows code, whether written in VB.NET, C## or some other language is usually structured with MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) objects. These are often arrays of zeroes that, to the casual user, look like they are reserving memory locations. The size depends on how the app is designed, and definitely make an executable far larger than they should be. I've always felt it would nice to have a real Operating System, instead of Windows, where these classes wouldn't exist in the app code. That discussion gets real deep really fast.
I had that similar error and some combination of these fixed it:
1. Turn off anti-virus
2. Write SD card directly on PC
3. Replace SD card
4. Replace USB cable
One of those should fix it.
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Hey Whistler....
Reckon y'all could implement an import text feature in the EZ Scan software so the we can import scanlists??
We can copy & paste to & from the scanlist, but only one line at a time. It'd be great if we had an import feature or at least allow copy & paste of multiple lines.
Reckon y'all could implement an import text feature in the EZ Scan software so the we can import scanlists??
We can copy & paste to & from the scanlist, but only one line at a time. It'd be great if we had an import feature or at least allow copy & paste of multiple lines.
You can import to EZ scan using CSV files. Find the information in the EZ Scan help file
Importing and Exporting Sites
| Import Sites from Text File | This option will allow the import of site information from a CSV format file. |
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I completely understand how to import conventional frequencies, TGIDs, TRS sites and all that via text, CSV or via spreadsheet.
What I'd like to see is the ability to paste 200 Scanlist names into the first tab of EZ Scan software.
You can paste them one at a time into the software, copy them one at a time from the software. You cannot select all 200 and copy or paste all 200 into the software. Tried it...ain't happening.
I have some fancy whiz-bang spreadsheets made to copy/paste from RRDB so ya can edit & configure conventional, TRS & TGIDs to import, that's all fine & dandy.
Just want the ability to copy & paste Scanlist names.
Win97 & Win500 has that ability....same developer made them as well as EZ Scan. Reckon it shouldn't be hard to add that capability.
Don also posted he could not make his own software for the 10xx and TRX per WHISTLER
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I'm pretty sure he was the lead on the EZ Scan software.....sure looks like previous Starrsoft stuff - Win96, Win 97, Win500. I figure he was brought in by GRE during development of the PSR 800 to write that software since he did so well on software for the previous GRE units.
The availability of WinXX and the PSR Edit software as well led to the popularity of those GRE units.
I had Win500 and had already made files weeks before I got my PSR 500. Unboxed it & programmed it in less than an hour. Happy days back then.....LOL
Now that he seems MIA I'm sure someone @ Whistler has taken over development / improvement (?) of the software.
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