need data capture, stat analysis, graph display software for PC

It took me about 2 years to become really proficient, and had C++ and java background going in -- there will always be a learning curve !!

good luck with the rest of the project !!

Maybe, maybe not. It was a while ago but i knew people that did word processing, including typesetting, in Lotus 123. They did not understand how anyone could not see the value of doing so. Nor is everyone skilled in driving spreadsheets to do the the things that they do well. There are many alternatives for numerical or statistical analysis of data.

Oh Joy, running in full 64-bit mode the FPU with SSE2 and SSE3 64 bit extensions can make a kick butt FFT machine, embarrass a DSP it can. There are limitations, and step and stride issues for large datasets. Plus if the code is not carefully hand or otherwise well optimized for x86-64 you do not get near the performance possible.

With the stated processor agreed.

An interesting use of the concepts found in the C++ STL and some influence from ADA generics.

Interesting, kinda X-windows like.

Separate thread definitely. Partition the thing into a tool chain, much like Pre-IDE software development became.

How about a data analysis package? There are several free ones: Octave (matlab-compatible), R, Scilab, all have excellent statistical toolboxes, as well as FFT, and more. Available on Windows and of course Linux.

Ohh I agree -- nothing particularly NEW -- but 1000% more ACCESSABLE -- dont have to jump through near as many hoops to use all these neet things as you did with C++/STL/PThreads/etc !! which is exactly how it should be, and why I avoided C++ after years of using it when visual basic and java became available... I got sick and tired of having my logic obfuscated by over-complicated interfaces to basic functionality. It is a pure joy to be able to concentrate on the flow of the application without the hassle of obscure low level functionality getting in the way :)

Thanks, well its coming on quite well, in fact its been running for a day or so now and collected quite a bit of stats,

It captures the data and records it, and also displays all the old data and updates it with any new data

I found a 2d windows component of that site you gave a link to, its basic but it at least gives me an indication if the processing is going horribly wrong or not.

It interesting language, its also interesting the memory usage climbs to >100mb then drops down to 2mb !

got to about 1000 lines of code before I rewrote it, split it into files and used structs in place of classes for the primitive data structures, then had to explicitly reference the functions wich would otherwise be global in c++. keep trying to do things wich are possible in c++ but find i cant in c#, like i wanted to overide += for a complex struct, but couldnt wich meant it had to waste time creating a interim struct for the return value in -. but it runs fast enough.

as for the data it has a standard deviation of 1000ps, but my stat maths is a little rusty, does averaging reduce the uncertainty in proportion to the number of samples or the root ? im looking for 0.1ps resolution, but averaged over a number of days. (hopefuly not too many)

Colin =^.^=