My project to build a computerized device to control opening/closing of the blinds in my window is slowly getting there... Thanks to Charles for some nice advice on choice of OS...
I ended up going with Bering. After some butchering I now have a nice, networked 1-floppy 486 system, with space enough (and then some) on the disk for my own custom stuff. Along the way, I had to install the virtual development system on my main machine, in order to compile the C-routines that do the actual read/write to the parallel port. Great stuff !-) I've decided to work my way 'in' from two endpoints, leaving the central piece (basically a controlscript, to be called as a cronjob) to be built last, when I know more about how exactly it will be called, and how it will get it's values: HW/Lowlevel control of parallel port is pretty much where I want it. The other end is probably best described: Ultimately I want to be able to control operation from a webpage. To this end I've built a couple of 'proof of concept' scripts that I put in cgi-bin, and made links for on a 'test.html' page. So now I can click a link 'forward', and the stepper motor turns forwards. This then produces another page with a link 'KillME' that finds the process and kills it. And a similar set of pages/links for 'reverse' :) While this all works, I'm going to need some way of setting 'time to run' and a couple other things from the 'master' page. One (rather clunky) way would be to have a whole bunch of links of this type: "Hour(tens) = 0, 1, 2" "Hour(ones)= 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9" "Minute(tens)= 0,1,2,3,4,5 "Minute(ones)= 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 ... and so on... Pretty ugly. So what I'm asking now is this: Is anyone aware of any way to have an input field on a page served by the weblet...? It just occurred to me that I might get away with setting up a 'settime' script in cgi-bin that could get the value from the address line in the browser... something like: http://blinder/cgi-bin/settime?06:30 -but a 'real' input field on the page *would* be nicer... I realize that the weblet is really only meant to be a passive thingy, but I thought I might as well ask anyway... In case somebody had already made something that might be adapted... TIA for any thoughts/ideas Jon Clausen -- .signature ;) _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
