Joerg Wunsch wrote:
Basically, I don't care about *which* GUI toolkit is used as long as
the current Unix/Win32/MacOS platform support can also be maintained
for the GUI.
And there lies the challenge. Before seeing this, I hadn't heard of
Lazarus -- looks interesting, I used Delphi briefly several years ago.
Lately I have been doing some work with Gambas -- and I'm very impressed
with it.
But the catch with any of the RAD tools is going cross-platform. Gambas
is *nix only, I believe, although OS X has been in the works -- I
haven't followed the current status of that work. But with any RAD
tool, even if the language is available everywhere, all the controls
that you use must be available on all platforms as well.
I'm not as convinced as Joerg that we need to have the same gui on all
platforms. I'm not convinced windows users even care, since they have
WinAVR and can use AVR Studio for programming.
Instead I would suggest that we work to make control wrappers around the
avrdude library .so that exports the same functionality and interface as
much as possible to all tools. I looked very briefly at doing a wrapper
to create a Gambas control around the library. What's the OS X
equivalent? Is that Cocoa? Anyway... if the control had the same
interface (as much as possible) on all RAD platforms, then it would make
sense to build the control as part of Avrdude and let the GUI's be
separate projects. Unless there is a good cross platform RAD tool --
but I'm not aware of any.
So... I foresee a future where:
./configure --with-gambas --prefix=/usr...
would leave me with a control that could be incorporated into a Gambas
project. There could be a --with-cocoa, I presume, and a
--with-visualbasic if someone were so motivated.
But, let me play the cranky old Luddite for a moment... beyond fuses,
what's the point of a gui? A gui is a lousy make target. 99% of what I
would want from an avrdude gui would be handled by a "pretend mode" for
fuse updates that printed a nice report and warning messages. But I'm
prepared to be modernized.
-dave
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