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Re: RCX.pm questions [and Linux RCX GUI question]
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Tue, 7 Nov 2000 02:13:31 GMT
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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 (http://glade.pn.org/) makes
building a GTK gui ridiculously easy- it literally took about 30 minutes to go
from knowing absolutely nothing to having buttons that would control beep
output on the RCX. Of course, it isn't Tk, so it isn't quite cross platform,
but that's what you get for running Windows ;)
Seriously, though, once it gets polished, I'd love feedback, and even now, I'd
be curious to know if anyone has any particular functionality they'd like to
see out of such a thing. I really haven't planned on much- basic sounds,
probably the three motors, and maybe displays for the inputs. My real goal for
this (personally) is just to have something by which I can move a camera up and
down, so if left to my own devices it will probably be pretty limited.
Luis
In lugnet.robotics.rcx, Cong Ly writes:
> You need any help building the GUI? I was thinking of doing a Perl Tk for my
> linux box.
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> 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 ;)
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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 :|
> >
> > 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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| (...) Luis, You might want to look at my rcxtcl package. It has all of the stuff you need to make messages for the RCX. Currently, the tcl code makes the messages for uploading firmware bytes to the RCX, but there is a routine that will take a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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