FLTK and obdgpslogger

archangele · 06-14-2009, 02:58 AM

Hi,
I am trying to compile following your instructions, but i'm coming up with an error like this:

-- Could NOT find FLTK (missing: FLTK_LIBRARIES FLTK_INCLUDE_DIR FLTK_FLUID_EXECUTABLE)

Do you know how I should link FLTK?

Thanks for the effort.

chunkyks · 06-14-2009, 12:09 PM

What distribution are you using? Or are you using OSX?

In Linux, you'll need to add the fltk devel packages and fluid. On ubuntu:

Code:

sudo apt-get install libfltk1.1-dev libfltk-1.1 fltk1.1-doc fluid

On OSX, fltk available through fink works [since I've been using it], or you can compile it yourself by downloading fltk-1.1.9.tar.gz, and installing it with:

Code:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/fltk/ --disable-shared

then set your PATH before running cmake:

Code:

PATH=$HOME/fltk/bin:$PATH; export PATH
cmake .. # Follow other build instructions as before

Lemme know if that works, or if you need more specific stuff. It's worth noting that obdgpslogger works great wihout the GUI, but you need the GUI if you want real-time visuals on your dials.

Gary (-;

archangele · 06-14-2009, 01:01 PM

Thanks Gary.

I managed to figure it out late last night what the problems were. I am trying to tinker with the GUI and modify it. I am not familiar with Fluid and I couldn't find much documentation on it. Do you have any other documentation besides the one on the FLTK site?

Thanks again.

chunkyks · 06-14-2009, 09:47 PM

Sorry, fluid's one of those things that's just kinda opaque - I've found very little decent documentation past the basic tutorial. Mainly I used fltk because it's super fast for prototyping, it's truly ripe for a wx re-write. I really don't like the basic tutorial much because it ends up on a huge spiral of opengl weird stuff and not an awful lot of fluid.

I came across this: http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk-v...uid-intro.html. It's pretty simplistic.

Personally, I find it easier to learn things by having a target to aim for ; what are you trying to change, and I'll give you some pointers on how to get it done?

Gary (-;

archangele · 06-15-2009, 12:23 AM

I am just trying to make a sleeker GUI that displays all the things that my car is capable of displaying. Seeing that FLTK is really too simplistic, I might just ditch it and use another language for it. Thanks for all the help. I will write to you if I have anything worthy of contributing.

Cheers. =)

chunkyks · 06-15-2009, 12:30 AM

Yeah, fltk's a bit simplistic.

I was partially using obdgui to teach myself fltk out of curiousity, and partially I wanted something thrown together really quickly. I'm actually leaning towards writing a new wx flavor myself - it just doesn't have graph or dial primitives, and I'm too lazy to write my own [so far]

Gary (-;

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