[Elecraft] Slightly OT: Open-source CAT software available on sourceforge.net

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Not sure, but xkeys web site says there is a controller for OSX
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174, P3 #108, KX3 #??? - Mac OSX 10.6.7
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On 24 Jun 2011, at 14:49, Frank R. Oppedijk wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that I've just uploaded my CatPad 
> software package to the Sourceforge open-source community.
> 
> CatPad is a software program that provides soft buttons which, if 
> pressed, send CAT commands to your radio. This way you can send 
> macros to your transceiver with a single button press (you may know 
> this from the K3 Utility, or from K-Keys). CatPad also supports 
> X-Keys hardware keyboards (currently only the 58-key keyboard shown 
> at http://www.ymouse.com/xkeys/xkpro.php ).
> 
> CatPad is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/catpad/ . It 
> needs a Java run-time environment (1.4 or higher) and as such should 
> be platform-independent. For use with an X-Keys hardware keyboard, 
> one needs a proprietary DLL, limiting the use with a hardware 
> keyboard to Windows-only.
> 
> I'm currently happily using the program with my K3, but I'm not doing 
> any active development on the program at the moment. Anyone who wants 
> to take the current source code and develop it further, is free to do so.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Frank PA4N