Hi, I would be also interested in, having a strong opinion on technology stack, but fully open to design and function.
My suggestion is writing a Desktop App with Kotlin Jetpack Compose for Desktop: Props: * modern, state of the art, way to write reactive UI (natural way to implement unidirectional data flows architectures) * JVM target * open source, backed by Google And Jetbrains (they use it in their critical products) * Kotlin provides 1A class interoperability support with Java and JVM * since Jetpack Compose is originally created and used by Android, you can have an Android App out of the box, with little effort * integration with Jetbrains Intellij * even if you don't know Jetpack Compose Framewrok, you can contribute too with your Java/Kotlin skills imedialtely on domain/bussines etc. parts of code .. * easy to learn * with multiplatform support are native apps with their native UI frameworks (e.g. iOS) Cons: * Still in Alpha * backed by Google and Jetbrains * Kotlin is probably not the number one programming language here Best regards, Michal > Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> hat am 23.06.2022 10:55 > geschrieben: > > > Hi all, > > Again, I was in need of a simple application to simply monitor the values on > a Modbus device (I’m currently configuring my Wago PFC200 Modbus Slave > interface). > I could use stuff like the “Modbus Poll” GUI tool, but my trial expired and > I’m not willing to pay 130€ for this limited functionality. > > So, I thought, it would be an awesome addition to PLC4X if we had some sort > of GUI application, that uses the Discover functionality to find possible > PLCs and list them in a tree view. > If the use double clicks on one of these connections, it connects and > possibly executes the Browse functionality and lists up what it finds. > > I know that I could simply start working on something like that, but I > thought this would also be a great thing for someone else to implement as it > doesn’t require too deep knowledge of PLC4X internals. > > And I suck at building beautiful UIs :-) > > Anyone interested? > > Chris
