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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce K3CMZ
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:17 PM
To: FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] Another Stupid Question about the Code TheEnd
A few comments on the answers I got about the code
Dan KB5My talked about some formal education As he took some classes in
1993, I was retired at the end of 1993, after 40 years with the ding-a-ling
company my school daze were over, but thanks anyway.
[dh] I graduated from Annapolis in 1979. I thought my school daze were
over then, too. NOT!! My various jobs post-USN have required me
to semi-master SIX languages/environments. I can hear my brain
sizzling like bacon when I wake up every morning - HI.
Bob and Jim talked about the IDE, but thats not a go because of the cost, I
could pay to heat my house for a year if I went for the full MicroSuck dot
net thing! And there is a lot of stuff in there that I just do not need!
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And I would like to see an IDE used that is not dependent on a company that
wants to suck up every last dollar! Prehaps the first order should be to
select an IDE that our kids and grandkids can afford, and would not expire
every year or so!
[dh] Free Windows Development Tools:
IDE: Bloodshed Software Dev-C++, http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
Compiler: MinGW, http://www.mingw.org/
* GCC-based compiler
* Integrates with Dev-C++ project management & build functions
* Included in Dev-C++ download. You don't have to go get it!
I tried this combination at work with straight C code for some
GPIB instrument control experiments, and it worked great! I even
created some simple DLL's that I called from programs written in
C under Dev-C++ and also with Agilent VEE, and they worked fine.
To add cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) C++ GUI development
capability, add wxWidgets, http://www.wxwindows.org/
* Same code base for native look & feel apps in Windows, Linux,
and Macintosh OS X
* Dev-C++ add-in "Devpack" for wxWidgets/Windows at
http://devpaks.org/
Unfortunately, the Dev-C++ IDE isn't available for Linux or Mac,
so you'd have to build a project with the same baseline code and
platform-specific libraries using an appropriate free IDE and GCC
compiler combination for each operating system (KDevelop 3.3.2,
http://www.kdevelop.org/, supports an add-in toolkit for wxWidgets,
http://www.wxwindows.org/devcpp.htm, and I believe it runs under
Linux and Mac OS X).
There is some very nice free stuff is out there, and it all appears
to have some history and support behind it.
73,
Dan KB5MY
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