Re: [avrdude-dev] GUI using Lib

[John]

At 21:44 29.11.2008 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>  So if you had asked before, I could have got you my old stuff.

I read that, but i like to make my own experience with wxWidget, avrdude 
and related parts. ;-)
Have you created a nice Frontend-layout, i think it should not only be a 
big Dialog-Frame like the old avrdude-gui, or what i have now for test 
purpose ?


> I didn't check it into CVS because it's really a proof of concept
> implementation only,

what i did, was to compile avrdude, then copied the lib to the 
wxwidget-project, i have a separate project for the GUI, linking the lib.


The last two days i browsed avrdudes sourcecode, and found more than just 
the fprintfs or exits.

There are parts of code which can only be used in CLI, and have to be 
rewritten in/for the GUI to have the same functionality, without sideffects 
(i.e. exit). That means that if there will be a clever avrdude-lib for GUI 
and CLI s.o. has to clear all this out, and separate the CLI-parts to a 
different lib or something else. The lib should only contain ... Lib-stuff :-)
What i mean is that now there will be parts of code in the GUI exe, that 
can only be used in a CLI.

Example:
avrpart.c: avr_display(...)
i rewrote this function in the GUI-project, but found further problems, 
with i.e. reset_disp_str(), this function can only be called inside 
avrpart.c but could be used from a GUI !


but i continue exploring the sourcecode,
christmas holidays are very long this year :-)


> We could introduce a printf-like function, say
>
> extern void notification(const char *fmt, ...);

when there will be a satisfying solution, i could do it, but this will be 
only the 1st step in having a lib that can be used in both versions.


John

PS:
updated Win-exe: http://roboter.net-con.net/avrdude/


PPS:
ich hoffe das versteht jetzt irgendwer, genug verschiedene engl. wörter 
wären enthalten :-)