odt
Italy
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Hello.
I have bought a Windows Tablet pc because i want to install it into my robot. I am totally new about ez control software, but i am able to program in Visual basic very well.
Is it possible to have a custom graphic user interface?
I would like to turn on the robot and having a custom menu on the tablet pc fixed to the robot, a menu friendly to my little son. Can i do this? Can someone explain 'how to'?
Thank you very much an scuse me for my bad english and for my newbie.
Ema from Italy
The SDK is available for custom interfaces but you don't get the simplicity of ARC.
You could use HTTP Server and build a custom web GUI, there is in the project showcase a web UI project that may suit you perfectly, take a look.
Edit: Take a look at This Project
As usual, many thanks for the reply Rich.
Today, i have installed the ezb .dll on my pc and i was very happy because Visual Basic for me is easy. The thruth is ARC is most simple, but i prefer programming in Visual basic because i have written many programs in this language from many many years......
The only very difficult thing, is camera tracking. I have studied the examples and i have tryed to understand, but it seems really too difficult for me....... Do someone know if is it possible to run ez-b software and a visual basic project connected at the same time to Ez-board in order to control the robot and having a simple and basical user-interface and the tracking-camera functions?
@odt
I believe you can only have one connection to an EZ-B at the same time (although you can have multiple EZB's controlled from separate instances on the same computer).
I have been trying to find the post or release note with the details, but I believe you can use VB-Script and/or C#Script within the ARC script window, so you can create your own controls within ARC if that helps.
There are a few people using the SDK, although I think most are using C# rather than VB.net. Hopefully though someone can pop in with some camera tracking samples for you.
Alan
@Alan, I read a post where DJ said the C# aor VB script was removed from ARC, and I haven't seen the control for it in there either.
As far as I know you can only have one connection to the EZ-B. You can share that connection over TCP though, perhaps that can be used? I.E. Allow the SDK to have ARC connect to it in a similar way. The SDK is beyond me at the moment so I can't help there unfortunately, I don't even know if it's possible it was just a thought that hopefully someone else can expand on.