Place to share user examples??

Hi,

I spend now two weeks of hard work to get a the toolchain and a small sample application up and running. This included having the toolchain compiled on Linux and Windows, both with corba (TAO/ACE) for debug and release. My sample application connects a TaskContext directly to QT to show how signal/slot connections could be done. The build gets done by using cmake for Linux and Windows and handles also the moc/uic from QT in one go. IDE is Eclipse for linix and MSVC for Windows.

For me this was an evaluation step, to see if I can use Orocos as core of my next project, for which qt integration and Linux/Windows run-ability is necessary.

To get all this together I had to search a lot through the wiki and the forum, and at some points it was pretty frustrating to get stuck at simple things.

I would like to share my experiences to give other people, in a similar situation, an easier start. However I saw the thread about user contribution, which seems to open a ground discussion about the future of Orocos and I don't want to open this again. Nevertheless I think it would be of benefit for Orocos if there would be a place where users, in terms of the once which just want to use Orocos for a start, could place some samples about how things could be done. It would have helped me a lot to focus on the real problems if I had found such a sample, just showing how to put it all together.

Please let me know how you think about this. I would be happy to share my sample and also to contribute documentation e.g. in the Wiki.

Joerg

Place to share user examples??

2011/4/26 <joerg [..] ...>

> Hi,
>
> I spend now two weeks of hard work to get a the toolchain and a small
> sample application up and running.
> This included having the toolchain compiled on Linux and Windows, both with
> corba (TAO/ACE) for debug and release. My sample application connects a
> TaskContext directly to QT to show how signal/slot connections could be
> done. The build gets done by using cmake for Linux and Windows and handles
> also the moc/uic from QT in one go. IDE is Eclipse for linix and MSVC for
> Windows.
>
> For me this was an evaluation step, to see if I can use Orocos as core of
> my next project, for which qt integration and Linux/Windows run-ability is
> necessary.
>
> To get all this together I had to search a lot through the wiki and the
> forum, and at some points it was pretty frustrating to get stuck at simple
> things.
>
> I would like to share my experiences to give other people, in a similar
> situation, an easier start.
> However I saw the thread about user contribution, which seems to open a
> ground discussion about the future of Orocos and I don't want to open this
> again. Nevertheless I think it would be of benefit for Orocos if there would
> be a place where users, in terms of the once which just want to use Orocos
> for a start, could place some samples about how things could be done. It
> would have helped me a lot to focus on the real problems if I had found such
> a sample, just showing how to put it all together.
>

As you read, there is a wish from several people to have a place for user
code. But unfurtunately it doesn't exists yet.

>
> Please let me know how you think about this.
> I would be happy to share my sample and also to contribute documentation
> e.g. in the Wiki.
>
>
> Joerg
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