ZERO Desktop GUI Wallet

Graphical user interface wrapper for the ZERO command line tools

This program provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the ZERO client tools that acts as a wrapper and presents the information in a user-friendly manner.

Building, installing and running the Wallet GUI

Before installing the Desktop GUI Wallet you need to have ZERO up and running. The following guide explains how to set up ZERO.

For security reasons it is recommended to always build the GUI wallet program from GitHub source. The details of how to build it are described below (easy to follow).

1. Operating system and tools

   As of April 2017 (ZERO v1.0.6) this program is mostly tested on Linux. The Linux tools you need to build and run the Wallet GUI are Git, Java (JDK7 or later) and Ant. If using Ubuntu Linux, they may be installed via command:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir$ sudo apt-get install git default-jdk ant
   

   For RedHat/CentOS/Fedora-type Linux systems the command is (like):

   user@centos:~/build-dir$ sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk git ant 
   

   The name of the JDK package (java-1.8.0-openjdk) may vary depending on the Linux system, so you need to check it, if name java-1.8.0-openjdk is not accepted. If you have some other Linux distribution, please check your relevant documentation on installing Git, JDK and Ant. The commands git, java, javac and ant need to be startable from command line before proceeding with build.

2. Building from source code

   As a start you need to clone the zero-swing-wallet-ui Git repository:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir$ git clone https://github.com/vaklinov/zero-swing-wallet-ui.git
   

   Change the current directory:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir$ cd zero-swing-wallet-ui/
   

   Issue the build command:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir/zero-swing-wallet-ui$ ant -buildfile ./src/build/build.xml
   

   This takes a few seconds and when it finishes, it builds a JAR file ./build/jars/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar. You need to make this file executable:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir/zero-swing-wallet-ui$ chmod u+x ./build/jars/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar
   

   At this point the build process is finished the built GUI wallet program is the JAR file ./build/jars/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar

3. Installing the built Zero GUI wallet

3.1. If you have built Zero from source code:

Assuming you have already built it from source code in directory /home/user/zero/src (for example - this is the typical build dir. for Zero v1.0.6) which contains the command line tools zcash-cli and zcashd you need to take the created file ./build/jars/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar and copy it to directory /home/user/zero/src (the same dir. that contains zcash-cli and zcashd). Example copy command:

user@ubuntu:~/build-dir/zero-swing-wallet-ui$ cp ./build/jars/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar /home/user/zero/src    

4. Running the installed Zero GUI wallet

   Before running the GUI you need to start zcashd (e.g. zcashd --daemon). The wallet GUI is a Java program packaged as an executable JAR file. It may be run from command line or started from another GUI tool (e.g. file manager). Assuming you have already installed Zero and the GUI Wallet ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar in directory /home/user/zero/src one way to run it from command line is:

   user@ubuntu:~/build-dir/zero-swing-wallet-ui$ java -jar /home/user/zero/src/ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar
   

   If you are using Ubuntu (or similar ;) Linux you may instead just use the file manager and right-click on the ZEROSwingWalletUI.jar file and choose the option "Open with OpenJDK 8 Runtime". This will start the Zero GUI wallet.

License

This program is distributed under an MIT License.

Disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.