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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : MMB4W Embedded
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| PhenixRising Guru  Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 864 |
There's no way to hide the MMB4W source, correct? |
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panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1101 |
If you mean the initial window that appears, that is able to be shrunk down to the bottom of your screen but must be left open. It is very useful to use as the console window as it is 'scrollable'. See the manual for details. Doug. ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
@ PhenixRising The only platform where the MMBasic can be properly hidden is the Micromite, where setting the Microchip security bit locks the hardware. You can redefine the Break key and make ^C do something different (or nothing). You can also make a program auto-run. Exactly what can be done on MMB4W I don't know as I don't use it, but I would assume that the program won't be secure. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 864 |
Thinking of using a tiny Windows PC as the user-interface to a Mite(I want large screen stuff). I guess I'm not too worried about the MMB4W code because it will just be sending out commands to the Mite. Just want it to boot straight into the app but I guess that's something I do in Windows startup. Cheers! |
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| Mixtel90 Guru Joined: 05/10/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 6798 |
It depends on what you want the end result to look like. You could send ANSI control codes from a MMBasic platform to a PC and display in a terminal emulator like Tera Term. That way the user never sees the MMBasic - it's not available to them. Your display options are limited but you have access to the GPx pins. Mick Zilog Inside! nascom.info for Nascom & Gemini Preliminary MMBasic docs & my PCB designs |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 864 |
@Mixtel90 I'm thinking of a really modern-looking GUI where I create my own buttons as some form of bitmap. I need to start playing with this stuff to figure the possibilities. Cheers! |
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| DaveJacko Regular Member  Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: United KingdomPosts: 76 |
I am interested in doing something similar, a gui front-end on a PC for a pico-resident program, pico sends/receives simple serial commands to PC eg draw a line, display a number, print some text, do some I/O (have a look at Backshed Rob Rozee's excellent GFXTerm this would do the job, but it's a DOS box.) Currently I am looking at PureBasic, which should in theory be excellent for building this kind of simple application...However.. It's such a long-winded language that I'm losing the will to live  have they made it difficult on purpose?  |
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| PhenixRising Guru Joined: 07/11/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 864 |
You would think so  I like edit/run/edit/run (interpreters) and I recently discovered SmallBasic Liking it a lot but the IDE initially struck me as horrible. However, I persevered and now actually like it. I still do most editing in NP++ but am now just as comfortable with the supplied IDE. The workflow is amazing to me and, apparently, there is a way to "package" the program to become a standalone app but I haven't tried that yet. |
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