Incidentally, does this application have to MS specific? I'm making the assumption that this is the case?
I hope not. We really need Linux support for data logging and control
Absolutely! I was hoping for a very wide family of software solutions... but if the code is written carefully they can share components. I would really like to see the simplest software tool being one that most pupils could have a chance of undestanding some of the source code. This might be a simple program that read the values from the inputs and just echoed them on the console. At the other end of the spectrum I envision an all-singing-all-dancing solution with intial sample rate and maximum file size which recursively halves the sample rate and stores its file in some XML specified format while plotting the output on the screen. As for different hardware / software platforms I'm no expert but I guess that there would need to be different modules written for the low level sound-card / parallel port / games port interface for different platforms but the front end would just need re-compiling. Have a look and add some ideas on: http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?DataLogging I'll try to summarise this discussion on there... ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU and Wine are rirds. Rird is recursively defined. __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer