Chromium flavor implementations

[jguille2]

Chromium development -- 2017 july

1. Firmata.js in chromium

• Build 0.17.0 version of 23/06/17. It takes serialport 4.0.7 and browser-serialport 2.1.0
• Hacking firmata for SA5Firmata (and others) compatibility
  • Changing line 633: if (currByte > 0x7F) { -> if (currByte > 0xF7) {
  • Adding 11 SYSEX_RESPONSE definitions from SA5

Note: SA5 functions in version 2:

codi	SYSEX_RESPONSE (reporters)	Only commands
0xC0	joyX
0xC1	joyY
0xC2	butZ
0xC3	butC
0xC4	accX
0xC5	accY
0xC6	accZ
0xC7		tone
0xC8	pulseIn
0xC9		pulseOut
0xCA	ping
0xCB	ir reporter
0xCC		Ir on
0xCD		Ir off
0xCE		Ir sender
0xCF	dht11

• Used browserify 14.4.0

2. Manifest

• Adding “public key” to build the plugin without pem
• Now, background.js only calls bundle.js

Note: protocol “file:///*” is not possible

3. Postal i Dispatcher

• Changes in main.js. Updating ‘once’, adding ‘reportDigitalPin’, ‘getDigitalPinValue’, ‘getAnalogPinValue’ and ‘getArduinoBoardParam’ and deleting ‘digitalRead’ and ‘analogRead’.
• Changes in arduino.js with new commands (related in main.js)

4. Updating reporters (current problem with readings)

• Changing plugin/threads.js using new postal functions and adding a ‘proof’ to check when values are updated from background.

5. Watchers

• Adding plugin/objects.js to update watcher readings with ‘chromium’ operation (same of reporters, but without ‘roofs’ because their continuous operation)

6. Standaritzation of reportDigitalPin in s4a/objects.js

• Using reportDigitalPin(pin,1)

7. Prepare and Build

• Changes in prepare and build. Building plugin into a folder if there is no pem.

8. Desktop node_modules

• Current desktop version uses firmata 0.16.0 and browser-serialport 2.1.0,) Updatig firmata to 0.17.0 and adding provisional hacks (this is out of the PR)

9. getArduinoBoardParam(name) into Desktop

• Adding into s4a/arduino.js board.getArduinoBoardParam(name) = nop;

10. Fixing warnigs in chromium ide.version() function

plugin/gui.js - ide.version() uses synchronous getURL (deprecated)

• chromium index.hm chaged to call async getURL
• s4a/store.js Change in SnapSerializer.prototype.app to use async getURL
• s4a/gui.js Change dialogBox info in version call into ‘aboutTxt’l

Pending

• Upload desktop node_modules
• Check and delete ide.version() [sure in plugin/gui.js and maybe in s4a/gui.js]
• Add third_party.md with versions info.

[bromagosa]

Great work!!! And just in time for the Scratch conference. I may be showing the web version in the end :)