Bill,
What AVR programmer do you recommend?
john
--- William Chops Westfield <spam_OUTwestfwTakeThisOuT
mac.com> wrote:
{Quote hidden}> Someone asked on another list recently about a
> more-GUI-like
> assembler for AVR on Macs, and I thought "ah hah!
> An excuse
> to learn how to do more with Mac programming than
> unix CLI
> utilities! The "DropAVRA" download here:
>
> homepage.mac.com/westfw/FileSharing22.html
> is a somewhat unfinished but usable example. It's a
> bit of
> Applescript wrapped around the "avra" (open source)
> assembler
> and the Atmel processor include files, all bundled
> together
> into a "droplet" application bundle. You drag your
> .asm file
> over and drop it on the DropAVR icon, and it invokes
> the assembler,
> saves the log and results and opens them in TextEdit
> for perusal.
> (you'll need to have /tmp, and not need
> "/tmp/foowew")
>
> (actually RUN the application, and you get a version
> display
> and the option to control whether you generate and
> display the
> listing.)
>
> It could use some more work in the way of options
> setting...
>
> I'm not sure such things are genuinely useful, but
> in addition
> to its main behavior, this is an interesting and
> perhaps useful
> example of getting the Mac GUI to interface with
> unix cli apps.
> People even vaguely familiar with AppleScript and
> MacOS should
> have no problem converting this to a PIC assembler
> droplet, for
> instance.
>
> (The eventual goal is to have it be "smart" and
> recognize the
> type of file and the unix app that it should use to
> process it,
> perhaps including "drop a .tar.gz file and get a
> finished unix
> app." It's pretty far from that and may stay that
> way; the more
> complex the behavior, the more configuration
> necessary, and the
> less GUI-ish it becomes...)
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> BillW
>
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