On 3/26/2012 9:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Hello, > > <snip> > > This one needs to show the state of a device and update automatically. > I think the Tk/Tcl mode of doing things doesn't work well in this case, > but it looks to be more in line with Glade and maybe Python. > I have glade 2.12 on my desktop, but that appears to be totally ancient. > I got glade 3.6 on another system, and managed to create a simple > GUI and find the XML file, but haven't figured out what to do with it. > I need to interface the XML to a c program running on a BeagleBoard, > but if Python makes interfacing this to a web server easy, then that > might be fine. There needs to be a c program because it is taking direct > control over OMAP GPIO hardware at the register level. > > <snip> > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jon:
Straying even farther off topic, what are you running on your BeagleBoard? I wanted to keep things lightweight by using ArchLinuxARM but the current distribution turns out to be too sensitive to uSD-card timing issues. It won't even boot on my Rev A2 BeagleBoardXM unless I choose just the right card. This problem has been discussed as far back as 2009 in various forums. So far as I can tell, no one has come up with an easy method to determine which cards, even within a given brand and model, will or won't work if the problem shows up at all. Angstrom Linux, which I played with on my Insignia Infocast, and the OMAP3 Natty Narwhal Ubuntu 11.04 server image both seem stable using any uSD card at hand, just heavier than I wanted. Apparently whatever tricks they play in their drivers and kernel configurations haven't propagated to Arch Linux. I'm not sure your assessment of Tk/Tcl is correct---already a decade ago, my ace programmer turned out terrific interactive displays including live dial gauges and temperature bars, moving 3D representations of machine controls, etc., using an amalgam of Tk/Tcl and VRML(!). Nevertheless, I wouldn't want to work in Tk/Tcl. It requires too much effort from non-aces like me to get what he had. I look forward to hearing about your successes using Glade. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
