Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] upp_wx GUI

[Frans S. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Francesco,
> Hi,
>     using the upp_wx program I've thought to the following 
> changes/improvements... let me know what you think of them.
>
> 1) the toolbar currently uses two radio boxes to inform the user about what 
> hardware has been detected. This is a misuse of the checkbox widget; in fact in 
> upp_wx they aren't used for user input just as "read-only" displays, isn't it?
>   
You can actually click those radio boxes, if you have used the 
bootloader and then want to switch to usbpicprog mode, you can use them. 
Also in the rare case when you have an usbpicprog and a bootloader 
connected, you can choose one of them.

> 2) the toolbar uses a wxComboBox. However there's no reason for the user to type 
> inside it; why not use a wxChoice instead?
>   
Right!
> 3) the main window currently displays 3 big grids.
> I'd suggest using instead a wxNotebook with 3 tabs: code, config, data.
> In this way it would be easier for the user to locate what he wants to view.
> Also, in future the "config" tab could contain a more complex UI layout to show 
> the various config flag names, etc etc.
>   
Sounds like a good idea!
> Other possible notebook tabs to add are those displayed by piklab when selecting 
> a specific device:
> - Device information: basic features of the selected PIC + link to microchip.com
> - Memory Map
> - Voltage-frequency Graphs
> - Pin diagrams, possibly with the PGD, PGC, Vdd, MCLR, GND pins highlighted.
>
> 4) currently when issuing a command which provokes a read/write operation on the 
> USB, the program "hangs"; the UI doesn't redraw and the program does not respond 
> to user. This is because those operations should be done in a secondary 
> thread... this shouldn't be difficult to do; a simple wxThread should be enough.
>   
Actually this is my first wxWidgets program ever, so I didn't even know 
such a thing would exist.
>
> I'm ready to help with any of these tasks...
>   
If you give me your sourceforge name, I'll make you member of the 
developers group and give you SVN write access.

Cheers,

Frans