[Hamlib-developer] Re: [Groundstation-developer] Gnome RIG 0.2

[Joop S. <pa...@de...>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 02:31:07 +0200 (MEST)
al...@ph... wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I am happy to announce the first official release of Gnome RIG (grig-0.2). Gnome
> RIG is a graphical user interface to the Ham Radio Control Libraries, written
> using the Gtk+ and GNOME widgets. In the present release only a little subset of
> the full Hamlib API is supported (power, frequency, mode, filter, agc and some
> gain levels) but more widgets will be added along the way.
> 
> The controls are packed into a single Gtk-widget, making it easy to include them
> in any other Gtk/Gnome program. There are wrapper functions for the supported
> hamlib API calls, so a program using this 'hamlib-widget' doesn't even need to
> know anything about hamlib. Eventually, this widget will become a bonobo control
> making it embedable in any Gnome program that can use bonobo controls (Gnumeric,
> Abiword, etc. - yes, you will be able to control your RIGs from your spreadsheet
> file :-).

Weird stuff....

> Gnome RIG works with both version 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 of Hamlib. I have chosen to
> support both versions, because Debian 3.0 comes with hamlib-1.1.2. The only
> difference, as seen from the program, is the lack of rotator support in 1.1.2.
> Although rotator controls are not implemented yet, the program will ask you to
> configure your rotators anyway (just select the dummy backend if you don't have
> any).
> 


Hi Alex,

I got word from terry, the hamlib maintainer for debian, that he is working on
hamlib-1.1.3. I'd really like to test grig, but gnome is quite a mess at the
moment in debian/unstable. I would like to wait until the migration to
gnome2 is finished.

Now that we have a nice program for displaying and controlling the rig's
frequency and other things, have you ever thought about possible information
exchange between different programs? I am using xlog for logging and when
I do, I can't use grig (and vice-versa). It would be nice if there was some
kind of way for either of these programs to work together. We could think of
message queues or shared memory. This way I can run xlog, have grig displaying
the frequency and still use hamlib for my logging information with xlog...

One of the involved hamlib controlling programs, would have to be the hamlib 
master and a simple handshake will tell the slaves to stop controlling
the hamlib port. As far as I'm concerned, grig looks like the best candidate
for the master job....

Any thoughts?

> Oh, by the way, if anyone is going to wonder how to change the frequency, just
> left/right click on any digit of the frequency display. There isn't and will
> never be any 'software tuning knob' as I find them silly and rather useless.
> There will, however, be support for hardware tuning knobs that can be plugged
> into the USB port (http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate).
> 
> Unfortunately, I can only test the program with the dummy backend, so I hope
> that many of you will test it with real radios. You can get the source code from:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25530
> Comments and questions are welcome!
> 
> 
> Alex, OZ9AEC
> 
> 

Regards,
Joop PA4TU