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Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:42:45 GMT
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You need any help building the GUI? I was thinking of doing a Perl Tk for my
linux box.
In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Luis Villa writes:
> So, I have some more questions to anyone who wants to answer them :) (John,
> hope you are listening ;)
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> 1) Do I need to recreate $rcx after a while? It looks to me that under many
> circumstances, repeated calls to the RCX will fail to cause the tower to turn
> on. Is this a known bug? feature? Anyone?
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> 2) If anyone cares, I'm attempting to teach myself the GTK GUI tools by
> building a GUI for RCX.pm which would allow linux users to control their RCX
> remotely. If anyone has any feature requests, now is the time to get them in :)
> Of course, if I can't figure out why RCX.pm is flaking on me then I can't see
> the project getting finished any time soon (no time to recreate the
> functionality of RCX.pm in LNP :|
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> Anyway, hope someone can enlighten me...
> Luis
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> In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Luis Villa writes:
> > So, I've finally found a little bit of time to play with RCX.pm, and it is
> > pretty cool. However, I'm having lots of problems convincing the RCX to
> > actually do things :) it appears that in many cases, the first signal sent to
> > the RCX is always ignored. Additionally, it appears that multiple commands sent
> > in succession will all be ignored unless there are sleeps between them (I'm
> > trying to experiment to see how long the sleeps need to be.)
> > Anyone have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? Or is this
> > normal behavior?
> > Luis
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| No, I don't, but thanks for the offer. I've actually never built a GUI in anything except Java until today, but Glade ((URL) makes building a GTK gui ridiculously easy- it literally took about 30 minutes to go from knowing absolutely nothing to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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| So, I have some more questions to anyone who wants to answer them :) (John, hope you are listening ;) 1) Do I need to recreate $rcx after a while? It looks to me that under many circumstances, repeated calls to the RCX will fail to cause the tower (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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