As this is my first time writing to the list, first let me say hello to all the developers and users. I'm quite new to Dabo and let me say it looks like a great tool and really easy and usable.
I'm trying to make an application that strays from the Dabo main focus of database apps and using it just for it's powerful UI tier. Since I'm quite new to Dabo I'd like some help searching for some specific stuff in the documentation (and source code). My test case (to give some context) is this: I'd like my app to control some external hardware (namely an Arduino microcontroller) via a custom protocol on top of a serial connection. The ui elements will raise events for my protocol handler to send to the hardware and incoming information from the hardware will be raised as events to update the ui elements. So my first question is where in the documentation should I start looking about raising custom events and binding to them? What should my on(Event) methods be named like? Is there some sample code that uses these and what classes should I look first in the documentation? My second set of questions comes from my need to check periodically whether the hardware has sent any new information. Now, this is nowhere near a realtime application, so checking in grossly timed intervals is ok. Dabo from what little I've played with it feels like it has an asynchronous loop, but I really can't tell yet. Since the connection to the external hardware is non-blocking, it be great if I could just poll it somehow. But even if it isn't asynchronous, I'd be simple to do the job with a timed event that fires every once in a while. So, I'd appreciate what you can share about the main event loop specifics and/or timed events. Hope that post wasn't too long, or too incomprehensible.. Thanks for your time and keep up the good work, Nick _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
