Connectors 1.3 build: 9470 released: 2011-01-26

Creates PNG image files to show connectors and connector pinouts..

Copyright: (c) 2012 Canadian Mind Products.

Java application.
Download from: http://mindprod.com/products2.html#CONNECTORS

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labeled non-military use only.
All Java jars and source code are included.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS,
(e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/W7x86/W7-64/OSX/Linux/Solaris/AIX...) so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.6 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application.
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the "use folder names" option.
To run as an application,type:
java -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\connectors\connectors.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an application.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.
To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file.

To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type:
open Terminal.app
cd ~/Desktop
java -ea -jar com/mindprod/connectors/connectors.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary class and jar files, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar.
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar.

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Use:

Connectors draws various types of connector including.
AC wall outlet
USB2-A female
USB3-A female
RJ-11
RJ-45
MIDI DIN
VGA male
RS232C 9-pin and 25-pin male and female

It displays the result magnified on screen and creates *.png files.

You can use its techniques to draw your own connectors. You can use its practical examples
to learn how to use the Swing drawing classes such as:

AffineTransform, Area, BasicStroke, BufferedImage, Ellipse2D,
FontRenderContext, Graphics2D, ImageIO, JFrame, JPanel, LineMetrics,
Polygon, Rectangle, RenderingHints, RoundRectangle2D and Shape.

Java source is included for you to cannibalise, particularly
RoundedPolygons to computer, draw and fill rounded polygons (triangles,
irregular shaped bounded by lines).  To understand the math see the
diagram in roundedcornermath.png.


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Version History:

 1.0 2011-01-09 initial version

 1.1 2011-01-10 improve artifacts using setOpaque, super.paintComponent and Graphics.create

 1.2 2011-01-19 drawRoundedPolygon fillRoundedPolygon

 1.3 2011-01-26 add R232C 25-pin and 9-pin connectors, male and female. More mathematical treatment of pins.

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