Configurator UI and error handling improvements

[ec-bikes]

For the configurator:

• Add a new field to show the compile output
• Show a message when done compiling/flashing
• Add a cancel button
• Find the root path of the repo, then use paths relative to that for reading/writing all files
• Exit with an error if the file structure appears to be wrong (like the compile script is missing)
• On Mac, source the profile/rc files before running the compile script to get the correct PATH (otherwise it can't find sdcc and stm8flash)
• Add a basic build script to make it easier for people who don't normally work in Java
• Add a README

For compile_and_flash_20.sh:

• Verify that the necessary commands are available before running
• Add an option to not wait for user input when running from the GUI

[dzid26]

The change looks good (except the comment above) and doesn't seem to break anything for me.

Also, do you want to have a look at https://github.com/emmebrusa/TSDZ2-Smart-EBike-1/issues/93 I just created?

[dzid26]

Instead of --gui flag, can we figure out pass key input to stdin ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18903549/writing-to-inputstream-of-a-java-process

Or at least provide a continue button or something.

[emmebrusa]

@ec-bikes The pull request is for "simple-gui-updates", I saw you made other changes with "gui-updates". What have you changed?

[emmebrusa]

With Linux (Ubuntu 22.04.3) it doesn't work.

See these errors:

compile_and_flash_20.sh: 8: [: --gui unexpected operator compile_and_flash_20.sh: 13: function: not found

The original configurator works.

[emmebrusa]

I see you're not following, you'll have your own commitments, I understand. In addition to the previous questions, I saw that there is another problem, I have a laptop with 1360x768 resolution, the compile output goes off the screen, it is not possible to read the last lines. I have to reduce it to 3 lines, it's not the best for checking if there is any problem during compilation. Let me start by saying that I know little about Java, nothing about Linux, and even less about MacOS. Searching online, I saw that a possible solution to the problem you highlighted is to use xterm, it is present in Linux distributions, or in any case installable. I tried it and I think it works. Just like in Windows. Do you think it can also work with MacOS? I have to release a new version soon, and I have to decide what to do, I will use xterm. Let me know if it works. Thank you.