> >
> > That would be fine for advanced users but it's a killer for newbies and
> > Windows people used to point and click. Just follow CNCZONE , try and
> > help out on some problems and see how difficult it is for new people to
> > be successful. They never read the manual because the rest of the world
> > is point and click.
>
> While I do like things to be easier rather than harder, I don't have
> much sympathy for someone who can't write words in a text file or read a
> manual. GUIs are complex because they have to expose the underlying
> complexity of the system, but they're (usually) discoverable - a newr
> user can see options that they don't know exist because they're sitting
> there on screen. CLI or text files are complex because you have to know
> what you're doing to make it work. The GUIs have an advantage in that
> they usually have a much shorter modify / test cycle time.
>
Yes That was the point I was trying to make. Because Windows/most GUI
are 'discoverable' and have a 'shorter modify / test cycle time' people
get used to not reading the manual just point and click till they get what
they want. I do it all the time too the difference is If i get stuck I will
read the manual! It's just like you said You don't have to know/remember
everything to start to use it. I don't really like the command line either
as I always forget how the commands are used/spelled. But I do
understand that the command line allows alot more flexibility the a GUI.
your pyvcp program helper sounds interesting. I thought about a
program that would have test panels for all the existing drivers and
sniff out their pin names connecting to them . A project for later.
> > there is a modbus library avaiable though the author was not
> > very helpful...
>
> I used one of the two modbus libraries I know of, and the author was
> responsive when I asked about the license (he changed to LGPL3 in the
> later version of the library, which is why I stuck with the older one).
> This one is from <https://launchpad.net/libmodbus>. I made a couple of
> changes to his library (which I should email back to him), to prevent
> the library from printing error messages - a no-no for library code IMO.
Yes thats the one I was speaking of . He was responsive just not very
helpful to me :) Also his software claims to include a serial slave routine
but after looking at the code it is not finished. I asked for some direction
...guess he was busy. No big deal.
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