Developping Gnome apps : need general advise...

[Andreas Mussgiller]

On Friday 08 April 2005 00:32, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
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> Now I need advice about the best IDE to develop Gnome/GUI apps.
> Something like MS Visual Basic, that let's you design the GUI and main
> code that interacts with it, easily. 
> I just discovered "Glade", looks great, but I am a bit reluctant :
Sorry, I only do Qt, KDE and root and just use xemacs to do so.

> 1) how easy is it to "bond" the GUI with the core program
That is tough to answer. You have a lot of choises. For instance
you could spit the whole thing into to applications. One that does
the read-out and logging. The other one just displays the data.
One other possibility is to have just one application that does
the read-out, logging and displaying. If you go for the one application
approach you might have to look into threads.
So again, tough to answer.

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> So basically what I will need is read lots of data constantly from the
> serial port, do some byte crunching and display all the info nicely,
> whilst writing everything to disk at the same time. So I need easy to
> use high-level routines to read/write text files and read/write the
> serial port... doable ?
Sure, doable...

I also suggest that you, as a starting point, leave the gui for now and
begin with the serial port and read-out part.
Have a look at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO

> Vince
Andreas