On Friday, April 15, 2011 12:13:22 pm Nick Raptis wrote: > As this is my first time writing to the list, first let me say hello to > all the developers and users. > I'm quite new to Dabo and let me say it looks like a great tool and > really easy and usable. > > I'm trying to make an application that strays from the Dabo main focus > of database apps and using it just for it's powerful UI tier. Since I'm > quite new to Dabo I'd like some help searching for some specific stuff > in the documentation (and source code). > > My test case (to give some context) is this: > I'd like my app to control some external hardware (namely an Arduino > microcontroller) via a custom protocol on top of a serial connection. > The ui elements will raise events for my protocol handler to send to the > hardware and incoming information from the hardware will be raised as > events to update the ui elements. > > So my first question is where in the documentation should I start > looking about raising custom events and binding to them? What should my > on(Event) methods be named like? Is there some sample code that uses > these and what classes should I look first in the documentation? > > My second set of questions comes from my need to check periodically > whether the hardware has sent any new information. Now, this is nowhere > near a realtime application, so checking in grossly timed intervals is ok. > Dabo from what little I've played with it feels like it has an > asynchronous loop, but I really can't tell yet. Since the connection to > the external hardware is non-blocking, it be great if I could just poll > it somehow. > But even if it isn't asynchronous, I'd be simple to do the job with a > timed event that fires every once in a while. > So, I'd appreciate what you can share about the main event loop > specifics and/or timed events. > > Hope that post wasn't too long, or too incomprehensible.. > Thanks for your time and keep up the good work, > Nick
I'm not sure this info will help. You might want to contact "Alan Gauld" <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> from the python tutorial list. He tried to show list members a video of a python program interfacing to a gadget to control a machine using your brain (my understanding is it used an Arduino). Most of us were unable to watch due to some sort country censorship. Like I said I'm not sure it will be of much help. Johnf _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/201104160738.05615.jo...@jfcomputer.com
