[plug] Linux, Devices and Calculators

[stephen humble]

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Oliver White wrote:
> > Yeah... $80 bucks for a cable. sheesh.
> 
> About as bad as the casio ones but worse... The HP cables are simply a
> straight through wiring - two plugs and a cable. The Casio ones involve an
> inverter to talk RS232 to the 5V it needs, yet they still charge around
> $100 for it.
> 
> The Casio software is free and available for windoze, and the protocol
> itself has been hacked almost to death so I'm planning/hoping to write a
> linux equivalent (and perhaps better). Can anybody recommend a
> language/framework for doing so, ie GTK(+?) vs. Qt, etc?
> 
> I have no experience with X programming, but know a fair amount of C/C++,
> Pascal (dump the thought now), Perl and I could learn Python if I had to.
> I would prefer it to be portable to 'doze and ultimately Macs. Qt sounds
> appealing...
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 

Go with the Qt version - ide expect the only problem with porting may be
that the serial port will be handled somewhat differently between linux
and windows
nothing a few #ifdef LINUX and #ifdef WINDOWS cant fix though.

> Regards,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> --
>  Bernard Blackham
>  bernard at blackham.com.au