Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Grid/Coordinate placement ('GUI hint' QY/WX) control query

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Hi Mark,

well, in the end, as a maintainer, I do really think that GNU Radio
could do better at being easy to integrate in applications that aren't
foremost about being GNU Radio applications, but something else. As
said, it's absolutely possible to just generate a flow graph with GRC
once and integrate the graphical sinks you get there into your own
application. It's just that all this doesn't integrate in other IDEs
very well so far.

Also, thank to Hakon, we'll soon have C++ flowgraph generation from GRC
- so that might become even more viable, if your application is written
in C++ and not Python. 

Cheers,
Marcus

On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 17:28 +0000, Mark wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Marcus, I'm very grateful for your time.
> 
> I've been away from GNU Radio for a couple of years. On returning, I
> was pleased and excited to see the development of new powerful
> processing blocks available in GNU Radio but at the same time I was
> disappointed to see that the GUI aspect of GNU Radio had not been
> developed further. However, I understand this is not the prime
> purpose of GNU Radio - to produce polished visualisations with GUI's.
> 
> I see that others have used GNU Radio as a 'core engine' to provide
> their Qt-based GUI designs with the power to do their work. For
> example, Alexandru Csete's (OZ9AEC) 'Gqrx SDR application'.
> 
> Whereas I'd visualised developing from the same approach as
> Alexandru, I'd hoped that GNU Radio would have provided this level of
> design functionality 'natively', so to speak, without the need to
> design the GUI in a separate application. However, again, I
> understand this is not the prime function of GNU Radio, except to
> provide a flexible and powerful means by which to experiment with
> signals through software.
> 
> I will return to my original plan, to develop my own GUI, based on Qt
> etc; and to sit that on top of GNU Radio functionality.
> 
> Once again, I'm grateful for your advice and thanks again.
> 
> Mark 
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