Re: Tcl/TK + Ada

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> writes:

> I am still really in the planning stage right now...but when I say
> daemon I mean a process that stays alive and accepts instructions. I
> was planning on using a port to receive on.

OK

> So let's say we were controlling an optical spectrometer, we might
> have commands like:
> set_wavelength
> set_high_voltage
> set_stirrer
> plot
> etc
>
> So take the plot command for instance.  I want the command to send an
> instruction and arguments to the daemon and then return right
> away. The plotting could take hours or days so the daemon could be
> responsible for it after that point.

OK. You could build the GUI in straight Tcl/Tk and have it talk to the
daemon's port (on Linux, I guess that'd be a UNIX-domain socket).

> If I had all these simple little commands to control the daemon I
> thought I could also build a gui for it to visualize the data being
> collected.

Yes, indeed; but it'd need to be on the user side, not the daemon's, so
you'd need a protocol to request the current stats/return them (2-way
comms).


Equally you could use the same architecture but with Gtk/Ada.