Unless you have a monolithic approach in mind, you'll need a fast
platform-independent IPC mechanism.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], "Leigh L Klotz, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> A couple of random observations
> - UI is the hardest part
> - next is device interface (sound cards, RS232) though the effort
to
> abstract that out pales in comparison to the problem of providing a
> best-of-breed UI for different platforms
> - Adobe has many hundreds of programmers working on Photoshop
> - A Java digimode program sure would be nice. I have a few pieces
done
> and would be pleased to work with others, but there are still
people
> (Win/Lin/Mac/BSD who won't use Java)
> - Separating the UI from the modems and rig control and using a
protocol
> between them would make it easier to write platform-specific
> best-of-breed UIs. PSKCore.DLL is OK for this approach for
Windows, but
> as it uses the Microsoft component implementation framework, it
doesn't
> help cross-platform, just cross-application.
>
> Leigh/WA5ZNU
>
