Re: USB microscopes for very small SMT

On a sunny day (Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:10:20 -0800) it happened "Joel Koltner"
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Examples is Qt4 in Linux, it is huge, while for many if not most
applications you could use for example xforms, that is very very small (I
use nothing else).

I've never used xforms, but I did use Tcl/Tk once for a test utility, and --
while it now looks a bit dated -- I was quite impressed with how flexible and
reasonably easy to use Tk was for the size of the library.

Do not want to sound like a commercial for xforms, but maybe I do.
The size of libforms is
l /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1580536 2008-02-04 14:42 /usr/X11R6/lib/libforms.so.1.0*
so, say 1.6 MB

Here are some screen shots of simple applications I wrote:
ftp://panteltje.com/pub/xdipo2.jpg
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/xpequ/xpequ.gif
ftp://panteltje.com/pub/xhcs.gif

One thing that is cool, is that it has a GUI generator that outputs C code,
all you have to do is place the various items on the form by drag and drop,
and it will write all GUI code for you.
It has various graphics, interactive plots, etc..
Been using it now for 10 years or so.
You can write the code manually too, that is what I usually do.
Even this news reader is written using xforms:
ftp://panteltje.com/pub/NewsFleX.gif

It was fast on a 486, on modern machines it is instantaneous.
You can find it here, there is also a demo directory in the tar.gz.
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