gnupic: Thread: gpsim development

> The
> communication sequence is thus: I have an idea, express that to my
> browser, my browser converts it xml, the program with which I'm
> communicating reads the xml, runs it through a parser, and finally
> recieves the idea. XML is an unnecessary step in this scenario - you could
> go straight from the browser to the machine.

Correct as far as it goes. XML is an open standard, though, and is not going to
change from under you, thus forcing you to upgrade your expensive software (the
Microsoft business model). The other thing about XML is that it allows you to
extract or use just part of your document and to use it in another form. Anyway,
as far as using it for configuration information goes, I'm all for it if a
majority of other software packages are using it. I have no preferences,
otherwise.

Mal Goris
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Anthony Tekatch wrote:

>I chose to use XML (libxml) in my little application because the parsing and
>saving code was already written and XML seemed very popular. I agree with you
>about XML not being very readable but it is more readable than a binary file.


Ähm,

I don't know exactly what your discussion is about cause I didn't get
mails from gnupic for a while but I think you are talking about how to
make modifiable menus/windows for gpsim.

And you were talking about using XML for defining such Windows (is that
right).
I wrote programs using "libglade". libglade is a library used by the GTK
Window Design Tool "Glade".
libglade has functions which allow a XML File created with Glade to be
loaded and used as normal GTK Widget(Window).
I think there is also a library for glade which allows the moving of
widgets in GTK Windows during runtime and to save a XML file with this 
new "configuration" to disk.

If you problem is to make configurable/modifiable X-Windows then this
could be a solution to your problem and I could help you.


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On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 03:52:33AM +0100, Bernhard Kraft wrote:
> libglade has functions which allow a XML File created with Glade to be
> loaded and used as normal GTK Widget(Window).
> I think there is also a library for glade which allows the moving of
> widgets in GTK Windows during runtime and to save a XML file with this 
> new "configuration" to disk.

Now _that_ could open up a whole new gpsim way of working!

Next we'd have defined stimulus devices and we could drag them around
to define a circuit.  ;-)

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It's been 6 months since I've touched gpsim! Sorry for the hiatus.

I'm thinking about starting back up. The last thing I was looking at was
adding support for multiple processors. I will continue to look into that.

I'm also going to make a pass through the open bugs.

Any other areas that need immediate attention?

Scott