OT, sorry, simple Windoze GUI

martin griffith · 2005-08-12T14:21:24+00:00

I've got a little 8051 project, in C that does very simple thingseg wait for Uartread ADCadd offset from eepromload DACstuff a string into a LCDNothing complicated. (I'm really an analogue guy at heart, just doinga bit of 8051 C when required)But I'm getting fed up with using windoze terminal or even procomm toset up some eeprom values.I've just loaded microsoft VB6 learning edition, (which I bought 4years ago, thankfully unused until now) I tried to make a little 5 button VB program to chat down the serialport, but its seems I need "the professional VB package" to talk tothe comms portIs there a simple way to make a elementary GUI on a XP machine thatdoesnt have a steep learning curve and can talk to the serial portI've googled for at least 3 hours, any advice appreciated, andapologies for mentioning micro$oft in martin

Aug 12, 2005 21 Replies

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Paul Burke 21 years ago

You might also try the open source Delphi semiclone Lazarus:

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Rufus V. Smith 21 years ago

I've not used Python, but I highly recommend Tk/Tcl. It is fun, easy to use and tutorials are available! And it now includes Expect, which can help create automated serial transactions. (Like the old Modem/BBS scripts...)

You may have gotten Python from ActiveState, which also has Tk/tcl.

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