On Jul 8, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Vitaliy wrote:

>> There's probably an existing open source library to do whatever you
>> might wish.  But FINDING it based on a vague idea of what you want
>> to accomplish is next to impossible...
>
> for anything but the simplest programs, you should have the design
> on paper before you start coding. If you don't know exactly what it is
> you want to accomplish, what do you think you're going to end up with?

You're misunderstanding.  Suppose, for example, that I start out with a
task like "I want to drive my pickit1 from my linux box, using a GUI 
that
looks very much like microchip's windows pickit1 software."  That's a
pretty specific target.  Assume that I understand the "hard" parts like
talking over USB, the pickit1 "protocol", and so on.   Now, I know there
are toolkits for doing windows-like interfaces under linux/X.  But how
to I find out which ones are most appropriate for my task?  Which ones
will work at all?  Which ones require a particular environment already
installed?  Grr.

BillW
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