Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem

[Dave N6NZ]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
> - Fuse settings (as you mentioned)
> - Beginning user, who needs the comfort of a GUI. University student
> first learning embedded systems. Electronic tech on the factory floor
> who is not as comfortable with a CLI.

Factory floor is something I hadn't been thinking about.  That puts an 
entirely different twist on it in my mind.  For that environment I would 
argue that you would want to be able to customize the gui at least to 
the extent of turning off stuff that isn't needed.  At minimum, a 
configuration file (XML again?) that presets certain options, and/or 
grays out certain options.  Maybe you need multiple configuration files, 
so the user (factory tech) is presented with a menu of product 
names/numbers and the gui gets preset according to that product 
definition file.

Avrdude on rails.

> Besides, it seems that it is a difficult challenge. There have been
> several people who have tried to build a GUI for avrdude and have failed
> for one reason or another. I'm beginning to think that it can't be done.
> ;-)

I've seen that fly before, and this fish is too smart :) Tie on another one.

-dave