graphical-programming

The tool for visual programming

I need the tool for graphical representing of work flow in a program (like electronic circuits are described with graphical representation). The representation has to be like the following: functions are boxes and arrows between boxes are "messages". Like this: This picture shows the following: (c (a) (b)) Where parameters of c() are ...

Write C++ in a graphical scratch-like way ?

I am considering the possibility of designing an application that would allow people to develop C++ code graphically. I was amazed when i discovered scratch (see site and tutorial videos). I believe much of C++ can be represented graphically, with the exceptions of preprocessor instructions and possibly function pointers. What C++ fea...

GUI for Standard ML?

I started learning Standard ML recently out of curiosity. So what I know is that is has an efficient compiler (MLton) which allows us to freely use abstractions without worrying about performance. It would be perfect if I could do some GUI programming with Standard ML, too. Is there anything like Gtk, Qt, or WxWidgets binding for Standa...

Create from scratch, or build up on Scratch?

I'm considering building a visual programming language, akin to Scratch, for use by children (a.k.a. poor typists) in programming micro-controllers or robots. There is, for example, a project to build a graphical programming environment for the Arduino. I really like Scratch, and would like the graphical coding to be similar. Scratc...

Algorithm to distribute objects in a box (like InDesign, Illustrator, Draw!)

I have a set of rectangles with their corresponding positions and a big rectangle which serves as the 'bounding box' for these rectangles. I would like to know of an algorithm that would 'distribute the free space' evenly among the rectangles. Some of you may be familiar with the Distribute Spacing option in Adobe InDesign and similar l...

Numeric data collection from an mp3 in python

Anyone know how I can plot numeric data from an mp3 in real time? For example the script plays a mp3 and as its playing prints 3 sets of numeric data. ...

Yahoo Pipes: filter items in a feed based on words in a text file

I have a pipe that filters an RSS feed and removes any item that contains "stopwords" that I've chosen. Currently I've manually created a filter for each stopword in the pipe editor, but the more logical way is to read these from a file. I've figured out how to read the stopwords out of the text file, but how do I apply the filter operat...

UI Controls layer on top of operating system.

I'm kind of curious about what layer writing a UI platform to the level of Win32 or the X Windowing System would fall in the grand scheme of an operating system. What layers below do they primarily make use of, is it heavily based on direct communication with the graphics card driver (I can't imagine going though a rendering pipeline lik...

Java graphic class proposition

I'm working a java+swing+miglayout project we settled on a class design for graphical classes that inherits from JPanel & JFrame, here is the skelletons : class GammaFrame extends JFrame { private JPanel __pane__ = null; public static GammaFrame open(...) { _instance = GammaFrame() __pane__ = _instance.getContentPane(); _...