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

[Stephane F. <f8...@fr...>]

Hi Alex and Joop,


On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > 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....

You'll see, one day you'll be able to rotate your 32x moon melter array from emacs!

 
> 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.

hey, that's great news (well, not for gnome :(

> 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...

And the answer already exists. Alex would tell you to use his Bonobo
control, but there is simpler for simple application: the RPC backend.
Just run rpc.rigd on the localhost, tell xlog and grig to use MODEL_RPC,
they will share the rig. And voila!

This way, no need to put hacks in all the applications around to make them
live together.

What do you think?


Cheers,
Stephane