llandre schrieb: > Hi all, > > I'd like to have some advices about how to implement a program that has > the following requirements: > - it must run both on linux and windows PC > - it must interact with an electronic device connected to the PC through > serial cable by sending/receiving some command strings and taking > different actions depending on device responses; these strings and > actions must be described in a text file (a sort of script) editable by > user with a simple text editor; the language used to described this > algorithm should be as simple as possible > - initially the program must be written in the form of simple command > line tool that is invoked like this: > program <script_file.txt> > - in the future, it must be possible to develop a graphical frontend on > top of it; the resulting look&feel should be similar on linux and windows. > > In this mailing list I was adviced to use python: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/37939 > > As I never used python, I ask you: > 1) about the script file, which language - for which a parsing engine is > already available in python - do you suggest?
Don't use a home-made-language. Use python itself, together with a lib of pre-defined functions and hooks. Python can do the serial communication (google pyserial), and together with e.g. the execfile-command you can execute the user-provided commands after initializing your system. > 2) about the graphical frontend, which graphical libraries do you > recommend? Google this group for a PLETHORA of discussions about this very subject. The answer vary depending on usecase, taste & relative moon humidity. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
