Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [GSOC] A HTML-based GUI for GNU Radio: Draft of proposal

[Kartik Patel]

Hello Sylvain,

One thing that I find a bit weird in the proposal is to use a new "generate option" webui.

For the qt/wx/... that makes more sense because :

(1) they're exclusive, you can't be both WX and QT, trying to link multiple graphics framework in the same app is just not practical (possible).

(2) because of some fundamental ways the app is going to be run when links to a local gui toolkit, it's hard to do otherwise.

However, I don't see why having both a local QT GUI _and_ exposing a Web UI would have to be exclusive.

The "global" options for a Web UI could be in a block without port (much like there is a xmlrpc server block, or also the Device3 block in RFNoC). That block instance would take care of setting up all the global stuff that can be used by the actual UI blocks sending data to clients.

If we see from the user perspective, why would someone need two displays ? One using QT/WX and other from web. So, using multiple graphics framework in the same app is not practical and not possible but on the other hand, using QT/WX simultaneously is possible but not practical.

Also, top_block.py will be keep running until QT window is closed. In case of web based GUI, top_block will be keep running until the server stops. Now, merging this two is critical. I hope you understand what I mean.

Just my 2ct.

Thanks for that. Pennies make dollars.

Regards,

Kartik Patel