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How It Works
GUIterm is a simple Windows application that communicates with external devices over a COM serial port, much like a normal text-based terminal program. However, instead of exposing users to a terse text interface, GUIterm presents a rich graphical user interface (GUI) to the user, completely controlled by the external device! |
| 1. | Download the GUIterm client and install on your computer. |
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| 2. | Plug a GUIterm-enabled device into your computer's serial port. |
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| | | — | GUIterm automatically connects to the device. |
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| | | — | The device sends simple graphical commands to GUIterm over the serial cable, using the lightweight GUIterm Language. |
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| | | — | GUIterm converts these instruction into a rich graphical user interface. |
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| 3. | Interact with the application just like you would with other Windows application, using windows, buttons, list-boxes, graphics, and more! |
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| | | — | GUIterm sends your responses back to the external device over the serial cable |
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| | | — | The external device processes your input, and sends back more GUI commands. |
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Just like you currently communicate with external devices using a text-based terminal over a serial cable, now you can communicate with rich graphical user interfaces! |
GUIterm Features
GUIterm supports the following features, and more! |
| — | Graphical User Interface: Expose a simple, appealing interface to your users composed and get all the benefits of a custom Windows application, without the Windows programming! GUI controls include: |
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| | | • | Pushbuttons, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons |
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| | | • | Bitmap drawing functions |
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| | | • | Password-Entry Boxes, Edit Boxes, Text-Entry Boxes |
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| — | Web Integration: Open the user's Web browser to your personal website |
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| — | Disk I/O: Create, read, and write to files on the user's computer |
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| — | System Tray Icon: Run GUIterm in the background while it manages your external devices |
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| — | GUIterm Monitor: View realtime status of all serial ports being managed by GUIterm |
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| — | GUIterm Console: Watch GUIterm commands and responses to the external device, in realtime |
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