The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces.
The Flightdeck-UI Tkinter library has been re-released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). This is a standard, well-known license, recognized by both the FSF and the OSI. Previously, the Flightdeck-UI library was licensed under the Open Light Software Inc. Open License. Note that this change affects the library only; Flightdeck-UI Online and Flightdeck-UI MVM remain under the GPL license. Since MVM packages include the full library, however, there is also a new MVM release which includes the LGPL-licensed library code. The new library and MVM releases are both numbered 0.2.1. These are stable versions. See the homepage: "http://www.openlight.com/fdui" or go directly to the download page: "http://www.openlight.com/fdui/download.html". What is Flightdeck-UI --------------------- The goal of the Flightdeck-UI project is to apply ideas from aircraft instrumentation design to general purpose user interfaces. The web service version (Flightdeck-UI Online) retains the plug-in architecture of previous releases. Each plugin, however, may now be monitored at different sampling rates. Multiple data sources (hosts on the Internet, embedded devices, etc.) can be tracked simultaneously. Also, virtually any Unix command that you enter from the shell can be automatically executed by Flightdeck-UI Online, and the results displayed by the system's virtual instruments. Although the web service requires a Flash front end (developed using only the MTASC open source ActionScript compiler; see http://www.mtasc.org/) Flightdeck-UI Online is still primarily written in Python. The author welcomes any ideas and suggestions: please email them directly to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Best Wishes, George Belotsky. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html