Earlier, I asked about getting the Cross Crosspad to work. Someone
(unfortunately, I deleted the message, but kept the link) pointed me
at some perl work someone had done to read xpad .nbk files and turn
them into postscript, but I guess I need to start a new project to get
the xpad to talk to Linux. Any pointers on starting work on it? I've
got the pilot software, figuring that would be a starting point for
building the communications, but I will also need something to monitor
exactly what's going across the serial port. If I end up doing this,
my plan (in addition to open sourcing it) is to build in good Unix
fashion: one program to handle the communications, one to do the file
formatting (SVG?), a command line interface, a GUI (GTK) interface for
controlling it, a tie-in to a vector drawing program to display the
files (GILL?), etc. However, I plan to start small, simply getting my
computer to talk to the xpad.
Note that I've never tried to do any of this before, so I'm really
hoping get a lot of help on this. However, they say open source is
built to scratch an itch, and this is mine.
thanks for any pointers or help
jeff smith
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