Anything that appears as a serial port is easy. Works fine with USB/serial =
adapters. Otherwise, you'll need to use a declare to make appropriate calls=
 to the OS. Probably not very easy.

On Nov 5, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Neil wrote:

> How easy is it to do serial/USB interfacing?  What about bluetooth perhap=
s?
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> On 11/5/2015 3:51 PM, Chris Smolinski wrote:
>> FWIW I've used Xojo (formerly RealStudio, formerly RealBasic) for over a=
 decade now.  One plus for it - the cross platform compilation is pretty go=
od (at least Mac and Windows, I have less use for Linux builds). While you =
can do conditional compilation on a per target basis, you rarely need to. I=
t mostly "just works".
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>> On Nov 5, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Neil wrote:
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>>> be a plus.  If there's an option to purchase an add-on to generate
>>> Mac/Linux code, that would be fine also.
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>>> -Neil.
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>>> On 11/5/2015 3:29 PM, Vartan Haghverdi wrote:
>>>> What is your target platform: Windows, OS X, Linux, other?
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>>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Neil <picdude3@narwani.org> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi all,
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>>>>> I'm looking for recommendations for a PC software development platfor=
m.
>>>>> My intention is to build standalone UI-based apps that would connect =
to
>>>>> my embedded projects via serial/USB, mostly so I can have others
>>>>> (customers) change settings, view details, etc during development.
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>>>>> Priorities are simplicity (ie: easy to learn and use), and generates
>>>>> relatively non-bloated code.  I don't mind investing time in learning
>>>>> some tool, as long as it's documented properly (ie:  comes with its o=
wn
>>>>> tutorials, so I don't have to chase down tutorials/examples around th=
e
>>>>> internet).  I don't mind paying for it within reason (say within a
>>>>> couple hundred dollars for now).  I'm fluent with C, and Pascal/Basic=
 is
>>>>> fine also.  If it's cross-platform that would be a plus.
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>>>>> So far, I'm looking at Processing, Xojo and Visual Basic.  I hear tha=
t I
>>>>> can compile Python, but it seems that the libraries, etc are strewn a=
ll
>>>>> over the place.  Any other recommendations?
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>>>>> -Neil
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