Maybe it's just me... the one that never work with other 'platform'. Anyway
if you consider DOS is one, then I did somehow...

Well I think to work with USB, perhaps MS dev tools is the best!?

Best regards,
WH Tan

PS: I'm still waiting the official release of VS.net 2005. But I think I
will talk to my boss soon... Meanwhile I'm downloading VC++ 2005 beta
Express edition... 398MB out of 516MB, still 45mins to go...



-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
Of Chen Xiao Fan
Sent: 11 July 2005 08:09
To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
Subject: RE: [EE] Host interface software programming language


Thanks for all the replies. Actually my goal is really modest.
Something like Mark Rages' command line PICKit 1 utility or
Wouter's XWisp is my "ultimate" goal. Maybe my goal is much
lower than that depending on my progress.

I know almost nothing about host programming. I also do not
want to deal with GUI. I say Visual C/C++ is difficult because
I was overwhelmed by MFC. VB looks easier and I have lots of
examples written in VB. But still I consider it not so easy.
Delphi may be no more difficult than VB but there are less
examples and people around me only uses VB/VC/Java. So I think
Delphi is not an option for me. Maybe I will look into it later
as well as VC. For now I will stick with Python/GCC/VB.

Now the next question is the examples of serial/USB communication
for Python and plain GCC on Windows and Linux. Any good
introductory web sites?

Regards,
Xiaofan

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