On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Nick Raptis wrote:
> 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.
A quick Google search found this article, which may be helpful in
working with Arduino in Python:
http://www.stealthcopter.com/blog/2010/02/python-interfacing-with-an-arduino/
( -or- http://j.mp/eXaP1i )
You would probably use Python to interface with the controller, and
raise a Dabo event when it detects new data. You can then bind controls to this
event, and have them act on the data.
-- Ed Leafe
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