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[Wxjs-users] FASD project: Online survey launched

[<ben...@id...>]

Dear Open Source developer

I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate.
You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it.

With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development.


With many thanks for your participation,
Benno Luthiger


PS:
The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/.
We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list.

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Benno Luthiger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
8092 Zurich

Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch
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[Wxjs-users] RE: wxJS newbie

[Franky B. <f....@sk...>]

Hi,

> My question is rather simple, is wxJS portable to other OSs? I would
> like to control a robot using it (way easier than C!) however all of the
> docs in the website indicate a windows platform. Would it be possible to
> use the "export makefile" function to create a makefile that I can port
> to linux? and probably more important has this been tried before? has
> any thought been given to this area? if not would you like me to look
> into it to see if its possible?

wxJS ports wxWindows which is a portable c++ framework for writing GUI's and
more. So porting wxJS to Linux can't be that difficult. The only thing that
needs to be changed is the DllMain code (in wxjs.cpp). There are plans to
implement this, but at the moment I don't have a Linux OS available (and not
in the near future). I would very appreciate it when you can look at it.

> also, is there an interface to accessing hardware components (comm
> ports, paralel ports, etc (otherwise I'll have to write drivers))?

There's a contribution to wxWindows called wxCTB. Check
http://www.iftools.com/
At the moment I have no plans to add this to wxJS.

Franky.

[Wxjs-users] wxJS newbie

[david m. <ug...@cs...>]

Hi,

I just found and downloaded the source for your Javascript framework, so 
please be understanding if I'm asking stupid questions...

For some time I have been looking for a javascript GUI framework (was 
short of extending spidermonkey myself with the Qt libs!) unfortunately 
there don't seem to be many of them around, which is a shame as 
javascript is the perfect language for combining AI and trad programming.

My question is rather simple, is wxJS portable to other OSs? I would 
like to control a robot using it (way easier than C!) however all of the 
docs in the website indicate a windows platform. Would it be possible to 
use the "export makefile" function to create a makefile that I can port 
to linux? and probably more important has this been tried before? has 
any thought been given to this area? if not would you like me to look 
into it to see if its possible?

My OS is SuSE Linux 8.0 (default kernel) + all relevant patches. The 
robot will be running a cut-down version of possibly slackware, LRS or 
Debian (it will use a Transmeta Cursoe mainboard).

also, is there an interface to accessing hardware components (comm 
ports, paralel ports, etc (otherwise I'll have to write drivers))?

Regards,

David
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