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Re: [avrdude-dev] GUI development
From: |
Bob Paddock |
Subject: |
Re: [avrdude-dev] GUI development |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:36:41 -0400 |
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 09:30:27 -0400, Sumeet Pal Singh
<address@hidden> wrote:
I am student in IIT Kanpur in India. Just today I heard about Red Hat
Scholarships 2005-2006 The Lord of the Code contest and I thought why not
develop the gui for avrdude.
Can someone tell me where is I can find the code for the gui developed
until now and how can I contribute.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avrdude-gui
It uses the wxWidgets cross platform kit.
http://www.wxwidgets.org/ By using that you will have an application that
will work for your Red Hat contest, as well as an application that will
run on
several other systems, such as BSD, MAC, and Windows.
AVRDUDE is great for the development environment as it stands now, being
command line based
you can run it from Makefiles and Script/Batch files.
But something I would like to see is true integration of the GUI into
AVRDUDE.
The reason for this is to make the GUI version more useful in a production
environment,
as it stands now the GUI is intended for people that know what Flash,
Fuses, etc are,
and the handling of errors returned from AVRDUDE to the GUI is a bit weak
(this is the main
problem with the GUI/AVRDUDE integration as it stands now).
In production usage you want a GUI as simple as possible. A menu to
select your product,
which loads the correct Flash and EEPROM files, a button that says "start
programming"
and a big Red/Green widget that says if the programming succeed or failed.
If you really want to get fancy the ability to read Pony Prog scripts via
AVRDUDE
would be an useful addition, as Pony Prog has been abandoned by its author
and is not
supporting new devices. http://www.lancos.com/prog.html I can send you a
.ZIP file of
the script commands, off the list, if you are interested. There are many
people on
the Pony Prog list looking for a alternative for doing AVRs now. Hopefully
that would
get you lots of contest points?