On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Tim Ellison <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would not be a skin, it would be a an entirely new console and based on > the man-hours it took to create the one that is in use now in PowerSDR, I > suspect you could buy a Tesla for the amount of money it would take to fund > development. :-) > > Maybe with DI... > Right Tim. DI is what it is going to take. The key is to separate the "front panel" of the radio from all the behind-the-scenes functions they control. Right now they are tied together in PSDR which makes it difficult to make any substantive appearance changes. Skins do not control the placement of the controls, only how they appear. It is basically not possible with PSDR the way it stands to change the control layout and function. In DI (as I understand it) one of the goals will be to completely separate the user interface (UI -- front panel) from the function blocks and have a standard set of messages between them. This will allow people to make a radio that looks like anything they want it to look like. Multiple levels of UI could let you have a Flex radios that basically looks like an IC-718, IC-7600, or IC-7800, just by changing UI modules. You start the noob on the simple front panel and then graduate them to other, more complex, UI's depending on the functionality they need. The nifty thing of it is that you don't need to change the radio itself at all to do this. So, just to keep us all from getting confused, it would be much better not to call a new front-panel layout a "skin" as a "skin" cannot change front panel layout. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.931.492.6776 (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
