[phoenix-project] Re: Fw: Re: contribution to development of phoenix
- From: Shashidharan Nair <ck.shashidharan@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: phoenix-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:16:43 +0530
Hello Georges! I had seen your name in the credits in the source code
listing! Glad to read your posts!
About myself: This is just to tell you that I am not very experienced with
the Linux environment and how you could perhaps help me.
(pardon me)
1. Took up Assembly Language Programming (ALP) in Z80 and 8085 in Year 1985
2. Moved to ALP in MS DOS, did some measurement and instrumentation
projects till 1990 in ALP
3. Found it difficult to program with windows API (syntax was hard to
remember).
4. Moved to Labview in Y2000 Worked on industrial projects
5.started working with linux from Ubuntu 8.04. Have just begun to
understand the structure of Linux! *The soft option of using Windows is
still very tempting*
6. Discovered Phoenix and Expeyes recently
7. Just now got the opportunity of coding again in my own lab after a small
gap.
8. I am a physicist by profession and I love visualising physical
phenomenon in in the form of time-plots or X_Y plots.
9. I Love to understand models by coding them and visualising the math in
numerical models
10. So was very eager to interface Expeyes with labview. I know it is not
in keeping with the philosophy of "free as in freedom" but I am doing it
for myself.
11: I love the Union of expeyes hardware (low cost, well thought out) and
the power of Graphics. A prefect blend for my classroom teaching
12. And in age, I am in my late 50s.
Now with this rather mixed background, I want to continue making Expeyes
more popular and more widespread, across platforms. Such projects are my
lifeline in the middle of all administrative responsibilities.
If you can give me some more details about the following, I will be happy.
"I wrote a patch which adds internationalisation to Expeyes, and so it is
now
quite easy to localise its GUI for any target language. Maybe this
internationalisation code is already merged into the upstream source."
Does this have any documentation - like help files which gives detailed
description of the functions in running text form? If so, How can I access
it?
I have been reading the Python code along with the comments and trying to
understand it and then convert to labview. If you have put out some generic
functional descriptions, then that is just what I was looking for. I am
rewriting the code itself and not the user language of the GUI.
Regards
shashidharan
5 February 2012 23:19, Georges Khaznadar <georges.khaznadar@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> some bits from the debian packager (it's me)
>
> I wrote a patch which adds internationalisation to Expeyes, and so it is
> now
> quite easy to localise its GUI for any target language. Maybe this
> internationalisation code is already merged into the upstream source.
>
> If somebody is willing to translate the English strings of Expeyes' GUI
> to any other language, I would be very glad to add support for new
> languages
> in the debian package.
>
> Basically, the localisation process requires no programmation skill: you
> only
> need to understand English (in Expeyes' context) and translate a set of
> phrases to your mother tongue.
>
> Best regards, Georges.
> Shashidharan Nair a écrit :
> > For those who wish to get started...
> >
> > The python code for running the Expeyes kit comes in basically two
> levels.
> > They are
> > Level 1. The Python Library for Expeys
> > Level 2 . The Graphical User Interface
> >
> > The Level 1 Python library for expeyes is a lower level code compared to
> > the GUI. In fact the GUI does the data acquisition and processing using
> the
> > level 1 library. All the details are available at the website. Also do
> > read the comments in the python code listed there.
> >
> > Dr Ajith and his team has done a wonderful job in putting out the kit in
> > commercial form.The Python code is also commented very carefully. But as
> > he points out, the code could benefit from some documentation in Plan
> > English. As one way to do this is, we could sit down to read it line by
> > line, decipher and document it.
> >
> > Otherwise we could start working on writing the C or C++ functions and
> > document them as we progress through them. I have been working on driving
> > Expeyes with Labview for a private application. Let me assure you, once
> you
> > get the hang of it, the procedure is pretty straight-forward, provided
> you
> > respect the object oriented nature of the Python code and your own
> > programming environment.
> >
> > I have done the Labview code for detecting the expeyes hardware. It is
> > basically a serial-port write and read function, but there are some
> issues
> > which you need to bear in mind. If anyone wants to begin the C++ code, I
> > can help by writing out the plain-English description of each function
> as
> > I complete it. This could turn out to be a good online collaboration
> > effort.
> >
> > Particularly, if you are new to Python and eager to get your C++ code
> > working, the Plain English description of each function can be very
> helpful
> > because it will save you the effort of deciphering the corresponding
> Python
> > code.
> >
> > Python enthusiasts please pardon me for saying that because I prefer the
> > "learn as you go" approach as it gives me the deepest possible
> > appreciation and understanding of the run-time effects of any code.
> >
> > To begin, you will need an expeyes kit and the software installed on your
> > machine which must have a Free USB port. Once the s/w is installed and
> the
> > device plugged in, your Device Manager will show the presence of a new
> COM
> > port. Note down its number. This number could change from one session to
> > another beware!
> > After this, you are ready to experiment.
> > Any takers?
> > Shashidharan
> >
> >
> > On 11 February 2012 00:31, Georges Khaznadar <georges.khaznadar@xxxxxxx
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Rajneesh Bansal a écrit :
> > > > For developing the interactive GUI how about using c#. Microsoft
> Studio
> > > 2010 express can be downloaded for free from microsoft website.
> > >
> > > ExpEyes is currently free « as in freedom ».
> > >
> > > Microsoft Studio 2010 express is currently free « as in free beer ».
> > >
> > > That makes a difference.
> > >
> > > Best regards, Georges.
> > >
> > >
>
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