[gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

[gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

[James]

Hello,


I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple
gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really
care what language(s) it it built upon (java, c, c++, qt....)

It would be really cool if versions ran on both gentoo linux
and windows XP or Vista....


Besides a typical serial port control (baud, bits, parity)
I'm need to be able to implement a simple protocols that
send and receive packets between a microprocessor and 
the serial port on a linux/XP host.


Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point?

James





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Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

[Steve Dommett]

James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple
> gui interface, that can be extended. I do not really
> <snip>
> Any ideas of something I can use as a starting point?
>   

Perhaps Komport will be a nice starting point:
http://komport.sourceforge.net/

or maybe Cutecom:
http://cutecom.sourceforge.net/

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT serial port program with a gui interface

[Pongracz Istvan]

Hi,

I just started to play with the same thing, what you need.

I use fltk as gui, datareel for accessing serial port and codeblocks as
the c++ IDE (it supports fltk).

fltk and codeblocks are in the portage tree,
datareel can be download from http://www.datareel.com

fltk and datareel support multiplatform (at least windows/linux), in
codeblocks I am not sure, probably only in linux.

Regards,
István


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[gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

[James]

Steve Dommett <steve <at> st4vs.net> writes:


> > I'm looking for a serial port program, with a simple
> > gui interface, that can be extended. 

> http://komport.sourceforge.net/

> http://cutecom.sourceforge.net/


Hello Steve,

Well those are OK but, I was hoping for something with
a few simple input boxes, so the user can input, say
a floating point varialble or an integer varialble
inside the box, then my program would use the
9600 baud serial port to transfer the parameter setting
to a specific register on the microP. Likewise the 
program (gui) could interrogate the microP and discover
various settings/values, using the gui interface.
A raw terminal session will work, but, it helps me to 
be able to put simple graphics and other things beside
the IO gui boxes (my jargon is neophyte. maybe they are
called dialog boxes to gui programmers?)

I know how to do all of the serial stuff on the linux
and microP side, I just am not much of a gui developer
(to say the least)....

It can be simple to the point of spartan on the gui side
of things, I usually use C underneath and on the micro.

Currently, we're using National Instrument's CVI to do this
on the PC, but, I'd like to get away from NI...
http://www.ni.com/lwcvi/

I do not need anything as feature rich as CVI, just something
simple to build the gui side of things and which will run
on XP and gentoo(kde).


James




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[gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

[James]

Pongracz Istvan <pongracz.istvan <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I use fltk as gui, datareel for accessing serial port and codeblocks as
> the c++ IDE (it supports fltk).
> fltk and codeblocks are in the portage tree,
> datareel can be download from http://www.datareel.com

> fltk and datareel support multiplatform (at least windows/linux), in
> codeblocks I am not sure, probably only in linux.

Hello Istvan,

These look interesting.
I'll test drive them and see if I can get something working.

thanks,

James


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

[b.n.]

James ha scritto:

> Well those are OK but, I was hoping for something with
> a few simple input boxes, so the user can input, say
> a floating point varialble or an integer varialble
> inside the box, then my program would use the
> 9600 baud serial port to transfer the parameter setting
> to a specific register on the microP. Likewise the 
> program (gui) could interrogate the microP and discover
> various settings/values, using the gui interface.
> A raw terminal session will work, but, it helps me to 
> be able to put simple graphics and other things beside
> the IO gui boxes (my jargon is neophyte. maybe they are
> called dialog boxes to gui programmers?)
 >
>
> I know how to do all of the serial stuff on the linux
> and microP side, I just am not much of a gui developer
> (to say the least)....
> 
> It can be simple to the point of spartan on the gui side
> of things, I usually use C underneath and on the micro.

If you know c++, I guess you can use the GUI library wxWindows and code 
the gui yourself. It's not that hard (I use the wxWindows library under 
Python, however).

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT serial port program with a gui interface

[Benjamin Graf]

For simple programs, maybe Gambas will work. It's a bit like M$ Visual
Basic. There is an example for the serial port included.

2007/7/3, b.n. <brullonulla@gmail.com>:
> James ha scritto:
>
> > Well those are OK but, I was hoping for something with
> > a few simple input boxes, so the user can input, say
> > a floating point varialble or an integer varialble
> > inside the box, then my program would use the
> > 9600 baud serial port to transfer the parameter setting
> > to a specific register on the microP. Likewise the
> > program (gui) could interrogate the microP and discover
> > various settings/values, using the gui interface.
> > A raw terminal session will work, but, it helps me to
> > be able to put simple graphics and other things beside
> > the IO gui boxes (my jargon is neophyte. maybe they are
> > called dialog boxes to gui programmers?)
>  >
> >
> > I know how to do all of the serial stuff on the linux
> > and microP side, I just am not much of a gui developer
> > (to say the least)....
> >
> > It can be simple to the point of spartan on the gui side
> > of things, I usually use C underneath and on the micro.
>
> If you know c++, I guess you can use the GUI library wxWindows and code
> the gui yourself. It's not that hard (I use the wxWindows library under
> Python, however).
>
> m.
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