Larry,
What I'm using for development is Visual Studio 2003 Professional. I've
seen statements that the cheapest version (student, eductational, what have
you) you can find will work. There's also an open source kit mentioned on
N8VB's site, but I don't believe it's got a C compiler which will be needed
to build the DttSP pieces as well as some other native code (PortAudio,
FFTW, others). I think MS has command line versions of their compilers
available for free download, you might be able to lash them up together
with one of the open source C# environments, but it would certainly take
some work.
The Flex source archives are at:
http://www.flex-radio.com/download_files/PowerSDR/Source
If you want my deltas to match the binary you're running they are
at:
http://www.tracey.org/wjt/sdr1k/PowerSDR-1.3.5-KD5TFD-WIP-Source-20050605.zip
- this file only contains changed files from the stock 1.3.5 code from Flex.
Don't know how much of a roadmap there is at the moment. Virtual Serial
port stuff is working, and Bob, K5KDN is putting the finishing touches on
his 2nd gen CAT commands. No virtual sound card yet I know of.
Regards,
Bill (kd5tfd)
At 10:33 PM 6/15/2005, Larry Loen wrote:
So, now that I'm probably going to slow down a bit, operationally, it's
time for me to turn my attention to the software a bit.
I have some experiements I'd like to think about, at least.
Is there a nice, succint roadmap as to how to go about this? I don't have
a serious C# development kit. I probably need MS' because I'd likely be
revising and even redesigning the forms to get the behavior I want. I do
have the Mono project on Linux, but my Linux is 2.4 based and difficult to
upgrade.
What do I need to get started and how much does it cost? Assuming it is
enough just to buy the Visual C# .Net kit, is buying the latest Visual C++
a good idea, or would my good ol' version 5 kit (or, Borland's C++
Builder) do well enough?
Also, do we have a good roadmap for putting all the pieces together? I
could imagine launching the console, the virtual COM and then writing from
scratch skins to operate it. Do we have a virtual sound card yet?
Also, I seem to have misplaced the source for the 1.3.5 (KD5TFD WIP
Experimental w/ N8VB HRD Fix 20050605) version I've been using. Where is
that? I think I'd like to start any experiments from the source code
version. I know it's a bit "out there" but it has been very stable for
and I might even be able to modify some of the existing controls (or help
me see how to add new ones). I haven't tried 1.3.8 or the stuff
in-between. The notes flying back and forth here are a bit on the scary
side ("protect your amplifier", whatever that means) and so I haven't
looked too deeply past 1.3.5, as patched, since it was working so well.
Should I be using 1.3.8? Haven't even dared download it.
Larry, WO0Z
