Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick
Hi Michael Thanks for the signals and slots tip, that's great. As for NI: My experience is limited and quite dated(8-9 years) but it is my understanding that in order to distribute "free" (as in beer) Labview code the recipient must have Labview loaded. It is possible to generate an executabl

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-19 Thread Michael L Torrie
Patrick wrote: > Lets say a customer had a detector and a pump to pump a sample through > it. We could write a Bash script that works something like this: > > -icon launches Bash script > -sends variable " 2" to pump command to pump 2 ml per minute > -pump command sends signal to serial port or G

App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-18 Thread Patrick
Thanks yet again to all for your help with this thread! and special thanks to John, Nicola, Dan, Gian, Lance and Reed for yesterdays posts. This is awesome! I was inspired by Göran's advice to promote selling code not software. I had an idea for the project name yesterday so I registered a cou

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-17 Thread Dan H
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:52:11 -0500 Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So as Dan was saying, I can launch other programs written in other > languages from system() function calls. So I could link lots of > them together regardless of language they are written in and if I > really needed to I cou

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-17 Thread Patrick
Thanks to Dan and John for your last posts and thanks to all. I am really delighted with the response to my question! So it looks like the I could use Bash to spawn other programs but it is likely problematic and no one actually recommends it as a first option. So as Dan was saying, I can launc

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-17 Thread jcupitt
On Dec 16, 2007 9:21 PM, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't need much convincing that the > whole Bash as a nervous system + (Python/C/Ruby etc) as the muscle is a > dumb idea! I did something slightly similar (quite) a few years ago to control a large painting scanner. The program had t

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-17 Thread Dan H
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:21:02 -0500 Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have wanted to learn Ruby for a while now, I could definitely do > that. Nicola was saying that my Bash idea might be a problem > because of the spawn time involved with bash. Whether you can or cannot live with certain "sp

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread Patrick
Thanks! Sorry for being so dense but just to double check, do you spawn C and Python programs form the main App written in Ruby? I have wanted to learn Ruby for a while now, I could definitely do that. Nicola was saying that my Bash idea might be a problem because of the spawn time involved wi

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread Lance Dillon
- 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

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread G Hasse
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:47:44 -0500 > Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With so many aspects to this does anyone think that using Bash > > would be useful? For example if we designed all the smaller > > programs to read and write from

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread Dan H
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:47:44 -0500 Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With so many aspects to this does anyone think that using Bash > would be useful? For example if we designed all the smaller > programs to read and write from/to standard input and output, they > could be interlinked with oth

App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread Patrick
Thanks Murray!, Dank U Neils, Grazie Nicola! Thanks Michael! Glom, Comedi, NTD and Michaels tips are all great pieces to the puzzle. I really appreciate your feedback. If someone is moderating this list please let me know if I have traveled to far away from GTK but I was just wondering about a

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-16 Thread Murray Cumming
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 21:27 -0500, Patrick wrote: > Sorry for the long email but I really could use some help. I sell used > lab instruments to people doing great work researching cures. The closed > source programs to control and process data from these instruments often > cost 20K. The people

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-15 Thread Niels Heirbaut
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 t

Re: App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-15 Thread Michael R. Head
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 21:27 -0500, Patrick wrote: > Sorry for the long email but I really could use some help. I sell used > lab instruments to people doing great work researching cures. The closed > source programs to control and process data from these instruments often > cost 20K. The people

App blueprint, advice please!

2007-12-15 Thread Patrick
Sorry for the long email but I really could use some help. I sell used lab instruments to people doing great work researching cures. The closed source programs to control and process data from these instruments often cost 20K. The people providing the software really abuse their legal positions