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Penlets 101

Tutorial by Robert Hanson

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Installing the Penlet

If you are using NetBeans or Eclipse, go back to the README files I mentioned earlier to learn how to install the penlet. Alternatively you can install the penlet from the command line using Apache Ant. To install the penlet you can use the command "ant penlet.deploy". The following is the output that you should see.

$ ant penlet.deploy
Buildfile: build.xml

init:
     [echo] Version 1.0.0_rNA built on 09/06/2008 08:09 PM by robert.hanson
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist

build:
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\classes
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file to c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\classes

preverify:
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\verified
     [java] ProGuard, version 4.2
     [java] Reading program directory [C:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\classes]
     [java] Reading library zip [C:\Prerelease_Livescribe_Penlet_SDK\0.6\penletsdk\lib\classes.zip]
     [java] com.penlets.MyFirstPenlet
     [java] Preparing output directory [C:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\verified]
     [java]   Copying resources from program directory [C:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist
\classes]

ext.build.shared.resources:

ext.build.icr.resources:
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\res\icr

ext.build.images.resources:
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\res\images

rescopy:
     [copy] Copying 2 files to c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\res

afdcopy:

dist:
    [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\lib
      [jar] Building jar: c:\Documents and Settings\rhanson\MyPenProjects\com.penlets\dist\lib\XX_MyFirstPenlet.jar

penlet.deploy:
     [exec] Pen 1: Installing penlet XX_MyFirstPenlet.jar
     [exec] Pen 1: Transferring 1744/1744 (100%)

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 5 seconds

And to undeploy you can run "ant penlet.undeploy"

$ ant penlet.undeploy
Buildfile: build.xml

init:
     [echo] Version 1.0.0_rNA built on 09/06/2008 08:14 PM by robert.hanson

penlet.undeploy:
     [exec] Pen 1: Un-installing penlet MyFirstPenlet

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 12 seconds

Next Steps

Now this penlet is far from useful, but is a good base to start from. Your next steps should be to experiment and try out different things. If you need some ideas on where to start you can browse the list of tutorials and try some of the out.

Until next time, happy coding!

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