Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC: New xml tags

[Tom Rondeau]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Josh Blum <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Please watch a sample recording
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLIPHXCM1M (kindly switch to high
>> resolution). In my implementation I tried to update grc block
>> parametes by handling stdout of an external program and from a file
>> too.
>>
>
> This is pretty cool stuff. I bet the same modification/idea could be
> used to launch a gui designer tool as well.
>
>> I would mainly like to add two features a) launching of an external
>> application and handling the out (may be via stdout or using plugs
>> and sockets) b) File loader so that block parameters can be directly
>> imported from an standard xml file.
>>
>
> You might consider, rather than launching an external application,
> rather, calling into a python module/function that returns some result.

I think this suggestions of Josh's makes sense. It seems something
like this would make it easy for us to do something similar in
straight Python to design and pull in results from the GUI app.

Tom