Electrical Engineering & Electronics Design

Since Microsoft has gone open source and free for Visual Studio Community, there is no better time to get it. I have used others off and on, but I keep returning to VS. There are many free add ins for specific methods and applications. There is a wealth of tutorials on Youtube U. to get you going.

When it comes to programming language instruction on Youtube I like the channel "Kudvenkat."

Thanks for the input Rollin. I will give that a look after I get a proper grip with solid works PCB. People keep raving about GTK3 have you tried that, as far as I know this is cross platform.

With QT it is not very difficult to establish a serial connection. If you want I can create an example project for you if that helps you.

QT In my opinion, a good choice, there is a lot and good documentation about it.

Over the years I've used some basic serial to gui apps done well in microsoft visual *. Those were very useful, purely utilitarian designs. I've also packaged apps with both qt and gtk3. I would say for cross platform qt has advantages over gtk3. For example, it was easy to obtain macOS-like widgets by including qt's libqmacstyle.dylib.

Hello Alex,

Thank for the offer on that !

I have actually used QT to design serial com GUI interface.

If I remember it was basic read serial communication program I made to read the sensor value to an on screen LCD display widget.

I found it pretty time consuming breaking all the example code down figuring out what parts of the code did what. I found that when I tried to use other widgets like a slider to write to serial to an MCU I coulnt get them to work. maybe it's me, beyond my programming capability.

Then when I went to make a standalone exe program it wouldn't let me.

I was seriously frustrated about that and I left it at that point. I understand QT has a heavy price tag attached if you want the ability to make a standalone exe. If I am I correct on that ?

I need something where I don't have to sell organs to pay for it where I can gradually learn and create exe programs while I go along in a hobbyist kind of capacity. I was considering GTK have you ever tried this.???

Also heard Matlab is pretty good.

Hello Richard, Thanks for the comment,

I just wrote a comment explaining my situation to Alex I will copy and past some of that in to this comment.

I have actually used QT to design serial com GUI interface.

If I remember it was basic read serial communication program I made to read the sensor value to an on screen LCD display widget.

I found it pretty time consuming breaking all the example code down figuring out what parts of the code did what. I found that when I tried to use other widgets like a slider to write to serial to an MCU I just couldn't get them to work, maybe it's me, beyond my programming capability.

Then when I went to make a standalone exe program it wouldn't let me.

I was seriously frustrated about that and I left it at that point. I understand QT has a heavy price tag attached if you want the ability to make a standalone exe. If I am I correct on that ?

I need something where I don't have to sell organs to pay for it where I can gradually learn and create exe programs while I go along in a hobbyist kind of capacity. I was considering GTK3 ???

Also heard Matlab is pretty good.

I created a simple Project.

Check it out here: https://github.com/KROIA/QT-Serial-Communication-example

If you have any Questions about my code, feel free to ask.

I hope you can understand the code.

If you want to send a lot of data in a short time, than you have to optimise the programm to avoid mistakes with reciving.

If you want, I can do that.

Many thanks Alex much appreciated.

If you are free/open source qt user, standalone exec in widows should be possible.

https://wiki.qt.io/Build_Standalone_Qt_Application_for_Windows

I have only made dynamicly linked library qt bundles with macdeployqt but the process was very simple. I don’t know if a standalone is possible or even needed for Mac due to the ability to package bundles of libraries in the app itself.

Thanks Richard I will check that out.

Time for me is an absolute killer, everything these days just seems to be so time consuming because I concentrate on multiple areas of engineering.

It feels like I am doing the study time for 5 people to the point my brain is going to short out.

Anyways many thanks Richard.