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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Getting Started
From: Paul Breneman <>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 23:47:05 -0500
I just added a new arm linux zip on this page that works for me on my 7390:
   http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm

I normally develop on i386 (Windows or Linux) and then occasionally 
compile (via NFS) and test on the 7390.


Paul Breneman wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> If you want to see how easy it is to compile a console program directly 
> on your 7390 look at the ARM Linux file on this page:
>    http://www.turbocontrol.com/helloworld.htm
> 
> There is also some simple serial port code on this page:
>    http://www.turbocontrol.com/simpleserial.htm
> 
> For simple GUI programs see this page:
>    http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm
> There is no ARM Linux release there but I've used fpGUI to compile GUI 
> programs directly on the 7390.  Contact me off-list and I might be able 
> to email you a zip to get you started.
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> N9XCR wrote:
>> Thanks for the info!
>>
>> I'm not interested (at this point) in getting the data to the screen 
>> particularly fast. I'd like to at least figure out how to create a screen 
>> with a simple button and textbox and work from there.
>>
>> Are there other tools (besides Eclipse) that I could look at for 
>> development? I don't have anything against Eclipse. I'm just interested in 
>> checking out what's available and comparing. I thought I read somewhere that 
>> some people are doing all their development on the TPC itself, rather than 
>> using any tools on their PC.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> --- In  "PeterElliot" <> wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> It all depends on what you want to display on the display, and how quickly.
>>>
>>> For a number of reasons, I decided to write directly to the screen buffers 
>>> on the 7390, and created functions for fonts, lines, etc and called on the 
>>> internal blit/block functions when appropriate to speed things up. I use 
>>> two screen buffers - the current display and the background screen which is 
>>> being written to, and swap them as needed. I use the unused screens to hold 
>>> a number of pages of icons which I can use the blit functions to quickly 
>>> copy onto the working screen buffer.
>>>
>>> In my application the 7390 is communicating with a servo drive controller 
>>> via UDP and processing data that the drive sends it in a timely manor... A 
>>> previous system (using the 7300) sampled up to four quadrature encoder 
>>> input, and performed analysis of the data with the results being displayed 
>>> on the LCD.
>>>
>>> I was hoping to pull my functions together and post them on the group, but 
>>> workload (which has kept me from the group other than moderating) has not 
>>> allowed me to do so.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> PJE
>>>
>>>
>>> --- In  "N9XCR" <list@> wrote:
>>>> Greetings all!
>>>>
>>>> I would consider myself an intermediate level programmer (Visual Basic, 
>>>> PHP, a little C), and I'm having a tough time getting started with the 
>>>> TS-TPC-7390. We were contracted to create a product in which the TPC-7390 
>>>> will communicate with a number of PIC32s.
>>>>
>>>> Basically, a machine operator will enter parameters that will be stored in 
>>>> a file on the 7390. The PICs will retrieve the parameters from the display 
>>>> over Ethernet and execute their routines.
>>>>
>>>> What would be the best way to get started in creating a basic GUI-based 
>>>> program for the 7390? This group seems to be the best resource I can find.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Chris


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