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Naran Hirani
Hi fellow Netters,
I need to re-write a very old C/C++ application written in the days when
MS/PC-DOS was king.
The reason for the re-write is that the application needs some new
functionality, but more
crucially, some existing functionality does not seem to work on the
current MS OSs.
The application works with a bespoke electrical gadget which emits a
radio wave signal at a fixed frequency.
This gadget is mounted on a trolley, and when switched on sends radio
waves back to a receiver attached
to a pc via its com port. As the trolley is moved forward, the receiver
picks up the signals emitted from
the device on the trolley. The captured signals are read by the
application via the PCs com port.
The application then analyses these signals in real-time plotting a
graph based on the distribution of the
signals over time, measured using the PCs clock ticks etc. The data
collected in this way gets further
analysed off-line using fairly basic statistical techniques to calculate
variance, co-variance, average trolley
speed, etc.
The application does not seem to be able to display this graph correctly
in real time on the more modern
OSs, e.g. W2K and WME. Hence the need for a complete re-write.
I am a complete novice in visual C++ so I was wondering if you gurus
could advice me whether VC++ is upto
such a job or not? I guess the key elements of this application are:
real time graph display, com port i/o API, low level bios clock tick
accessibility, etc.
The application still needs to have the same basic sort of
functionality, but needs to work under
W2K, WME, and XP.
Any ideas, comments or suggestions would be very welcome. And since I
am a complete novice in VC++
I would also entertain re-writing the appliation in other visual
languages such as C/VB/Java etc
if you guys think these would be more appropriate.
My apologies for the length and cross posting of this e-mail.
Best regards.
Naran Hirani
I need to re-write a very old C/C++ application written in the days when
MS/PC-DOS was king.
The reason for the re-write is that the application needs some new
functionality, but more
crucially, some existing functionality does not seem to work on the
current MS OSs.
The application works with a bespoke electrical gadget which emits a
radio wave signal at a fixed frequency.
This gadget is mounted on a trolley, and when switched on sends radio
waves back to a receiver attached
to a pc via its com port. As the trolley is moved forward, the receiver
picks up the signals emitted from
the device on the trolley. The captured signals are read by the
application via the PCs com port.
The application then analyses these signals in real-time plotting a
graph based on the distribution of the
signals over time, measured using the PCs clock ticks etc. The data
collected in this way gets further
analysed off-line using fairly basic statistical techniques to calculate
variance, co-variance, average trolley
speed, etc.
The application does not seem to be able to display this graph correctly
in real time on the more modern
OSs, e.g. W2K and WME. Hence the need for a complete re-write.
I am a complete novice in visual C++ so I was wondering if you gurus
could advice me whether VC++ is upto
such a job or not? I guess the key elements of this application are:
real time graph display, com port i/o API, low level bios clock tick
accessibility, etc.
The application still needs to have the same basic sort of
functionality, but needs to work under
W2K, WME, and XP.
Any ideas, comments or suggestions would be very welcome. And since I
am a complete novice in VC++
I would also entertain re-writing the appliation in other visual
languages such as C/VB/Java etc
if you guys think these would be more appropriate.
My apologies for the length and cross posting of this e-mail.
Best regards.
Naran Hirani