----- Original Message ---- From: Niels Heirbaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 2:32:04 AM Subject: Re: App blueprint, advice please!
On Dec 16, 2007 3:27 AM, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I want to build an App to control dozens or even hundreds of instruments > using different ports/buses (GPIB, Serial, Parallel etc) and I want to > do some fairly complex data processing after. Then I want to be able to > save the data in a database and/or in numerous formats. [snip] There is an open source project called Comedi that might at least provide the drivers for the data acquisition equipment. Have a look at http://www.comedi.org/. ----------------------- I used the comedi drivers to write code for the Diamond dmm32at card. But, there were a couple of other cards that I wrote the drivers by hand, and the interface code was written in bash. These were all PC/104 cards. One was called Pearl, and was just a set of 16 switches, either open or closed. You couldn't even tell whether a switch was open or closed, so I had to keep state information. You got the state from the /proc interface. Anyway, comedi is easy, but depending on the board, it may be overkill. I also write one for the Sensoray model 518. It was a lot of sensors, current loops, thermocouples, things like that. I wrote it by hand, also. I'm not sure if comedi would have been too much or not. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
