The builds are now sorted and tested on both XP and Ubuntu. I have put
some preliminary information up on my web site
( http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g3ukb ). I am having real trouble with my
ISP at the moment and can't even view the site properly but I trust it's
all up there! There is a pretty non-technical overview as well as some
techi stuff.
73
Bob
G3UKB
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 21:56 +0100, Bob Cowdery wrote:
> Just a quick update. Things are not moving along as fast as I would like
> but the day job is getting really busy right now. I kind of have a local
> SVN repository in the right shape and now have a build on Windows as
> well as Linux. I spent a long time agonising over what build process to
> use. In the end the Windows build is all under Visual C++ Express and
> for Erlang I am using Eclipse with the Erlang plug-in which works pretty
> well. On Linux I am using Anjuta for the C++ and again Eclipse for
> Erlang.
>
> Right now I am running the thin UI on my XP laptop and the back-end
> which is everything else on my main Ubuntu box as that has the sound
> card. When I say everything else that includes the Erlang hub, my state
> machine and the dsp and control. I'm please to say it's just as
> responsive across two machines as on the same machine.
>
> I have a deal of consolidation to do to clean up the two builds and SVN
> and then rejig my website before I get back to stuffing more function
> in.
>
> 73
> Bob
> G3UKB
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 09:55 +0100, Bob Cowdery wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 19:55 -0400, Frank Brickle wrote:
> > > Sigh. Once again, G3UKB laps the field.
> > >
> > > Is it getting a little lonely out there, being so far ahead of pack?
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > Very fine work, Bob.
> > >
> > I don't feel ahead of the pack in most respects. Hopefully, everything
> > that goes into the mix like the stunning HPSDR work moves the game
> > forward a little and evolution takes over.
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 11:29 +0800, Phil Harman wrote:
> > > Hi Bob,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your post. I'm a hardware guy, but I'm excited because your
> > > excited. I only understand 1% of what you write on the subject - but I'm
> > > still excited!
> > >
> > > Some day I'd really like to write up your work in my RadCom SDR column.
> > > But
> > > first I have to understand it so I can explain it to others.
> > >
> > The forward plan is to get all my source properly organised under SVN,
> > probably locally for now. I want to be able to build for Windows and
> > Linux. Re-jig my web site so it reflects what I am doing, a few pictures
> > will help a lot to show what goes on. Then a few bugs to fix and a few
> > enhancements such that everything I have on the screen actually works
> > (like my pan sliders and offset frequency controls for the sub-receivers
> > don't work yet). Then I will publish the code either as a package or
> > make the SVN public. It should be straight forward to install and run.
> > If you can run it up that's obviously the best way to understand how
> > it's put together. Good work on the column, I always read it and it's
> > always informative.
> >
> > > Again, very exciting, and I hope the penny drops here real soon!
> > >
> > > 73's Phil...VK6APH
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 00:15 -0700, Paul Shaffer wrote:
> > > There is a project at http://jungerl.sourceforge.net/ called otp.net.
> > > It's a port of the
> > > jinterface java code to c#. I tried it out, and there were several bugs
> > > and at least
> > > one unfinished method. I updated it for the latest version of erlang and
> > > sent the
> > > new code to the project owner. He checked my changes into cvs. So if you
> > > want
> > > a c# node you could start with that, even if it's just for a piece of the
> > > UI for windows.
> > > I don't think anyone uses Erlang with .net.
> > >
> > This is the beauty of course, you can write plug-ins in your favourite
> > language. Essentially any language that can talk to C can be done so you
> > can either roll your own or use one someone made earlier. I would tend
> > to use my C code that interfaces to Erlang and just wrap that with a C#
> > interface so I only have one codeline to support. I will certainly have
> > a look at this stuff though. I'm glad to see you are getting into this.
> > I think there is huge mileage in it.
> > >
> > > Erlang seemed so obtuse for a quick learn that I had to get back to my
> > > real
> > > work. I would like to see some Erlang code that actually did anything
> > > interesting
> > > for a radio.
> > >
> > When I publish the code you will see first attempts at this language. I
> > will do a simple scripting node as well which should be more informative
> > than the switcher. I will probably look back on this code in a while and
> > wonder what I was on! The one thing I found quite difficult and fell
> > over the same issue several time was immutable variables. I couldn't
> > figure how to hold the s
