OOPIC Forum

This Forum is Dedicated For all The Object Oriented PIC Lovers .......... The concept behind OOPic is straight forward. Use preprogrammed multitasking Objects from a library of highly optimized Objects to do all the work of interacting with the hardware. Then write small scripts in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles to control the Objects. During operation, the Objects run continuously and simultaneously in the background while the scripts run in the foreground telling the objects what to do.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Re: [oopic] Re: supported compiler platforms

>> In the mean time, I am forced to run a virtualization package in
>> order
>> to run Windows on our Macs purely in order to run the OOPic IDE and
>> the various Parallax IDEs. I was thinking aloud as to how it would be
>> easier if their IDE could be ported to different platforms.
>> Frankly, I
>> don't care how it gets done but I bet there are those who would
>> prefer
>> to run on something other than Windows.
>>
>>
> Many, but we don't hold our breath. Windows is still the 800 pound
> gorilla. When choosing which OS to support, the logical one is
> Windows. Today.

Oh, I agree. I wouldn't even think of suggesting abandoning Windows.
OTOH, it would be a one-time effort to support multiple platforms and
then a lot of what you need to do to port to another platform is
already done for you by the Java development team at Sun. It still
lets you provide a product that runs on Windows. (Windows ships with
Java installed as I recall so you dodge that bullet.)

This is not a beauty contest. I think that most experimenters and
engineers want to get the job done. Most have picked the OOPic for its
functionality and the appearance of the IDE is probably not an issue
so long as it gets the job done.

FWIW, one of my 6th-grade students commented that programming the
OOPic seems a lot more like using the GUI programming tool that came
with our Parallax Scribblers than transitioning to BASIC and the Basic
Stamp 2, "just with more words." :-)

Brian Lloyd
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