Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem

[Dave N6NZ]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> (*) If the GUI toolkit works reasonably,
:)

> I can then just go ahead and
> modify the GUI to my liking on a Unix machine, and assume that about
> the same kind of change will automatically appear on Win32 and MacOS
> X.  If there are separate GUIs, the work has to be done three times,
> once for each GUI.

Well, the trick is finding a tool where all the bits and pieces are 
available on all platforms and work the same way.  Maybe some RAD tool 
expert can tell us about one.

Perhaps there is a way to do this with something that runs in a web 
browser.  Again, I'm not really up on the nuts and bolts of creating a 
widget that can be used from Java running in a web browser, but maybe 
that is the way to accomplish a cross-platform gui.  I know that for 
security reasons, the Java language has limited support for calling out 
to arbitrary C code, so maybe a Java wrapper around the .so is 
technically difficult.

An off-the-wall idea is to do something like CUPS does -- provide an 
HTTP server interface running on some local port, so you point your web 
browser at something like http://localhost:7135/ and find yourself 
talking to an avrdude gui.  That certainly can be accomplished on *nix 
and OS X.  I'm not sure what it takes to implement a port listener in 
Windows.