[hpsdr] HPSDR - New Project - Cyclops - Spectrum Analyzer

[ik2wqi]

Phil Harman wrote:

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> 
> If there are any budding programmers in the group that would like to 
> assist with the code then there is one area I'd appreciate some 
> assistance with. I'd like to use DirectX (Direct3D) to display the 
> spectrum rather than GDI that Phil used (even though there appears to 
> be a substantial graphics speed improvement  using .NET2 compared with 
> .NET1). This will take a substantial load off the PC CPU and transfer 
> it to the Graphics Processor.
> 
> Ideas, comments and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> 73's Phil...VK6APH


Nice project, of interest for a large public so far the software will be created by the use of modern programming.

Phil, in the meanwhile programming environments have migrated to multiplatform tool suites. This to offer software on the basis of 1-time-write and run on different computer platforms.

Single platform programming is definitively out and so the use of customized objects and languagaes having application on a single operating system.

In other words, due to questionable marketing strategies, security and privacy issues, non equilibrated product price/quality ratio of the company wich products you are sustaining of, many people has, is and will migrate to other operating systems.

This means that a significantly growing large part of the people interested on the HPSDR and Cyclops projects are willing to run the related software on different operating systems as that you are planning to build the software for.

I suggest to leave the construction of such software to that programmers being sufficiently up to date and able to use the actual multiplatform programming environments.

It really makes non more sense to limit HPSDR to a continuously decrementing bunch of people using M$ products (sorry!).

What I'm stating is not to abandon programming for the Windows operating system but to heavly enlarge the final target including millions of people wordking with different computers.

Please take this in mind for the other projects related to HPSDR or you (we) will more and more restrict HPSDR's group and projects to an elite group on a niche product instead of spreading research and development passion.

vy 73s de Andreas - ik2wqi


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