Hi!
I'm developing this opensource menu library for arduino... how can i add this contribution to the site?
library info here:
http://www.r-site.net?lang=en&at=//op[@id='3090']
thanks
Make the library into a zip file, and just attach it.
opensource on github.. i, do not intend to replace github, just seeking the right channel and process to introduce this to the group.
Is this the right channel?
This is really not an advertising website, but you do have the Arduino Playground, which does have a user libraries section and this thread. Plus you do already have 200 views so far, so there is a good change more than 100 people clicked on your LINK(yours is broken).
neu-rah:
opensource on github.. i, do not intend to replace github, just seeking the right channel and process to introduce this to the group.
Is this the right channel?
Hi. I think you have been through this procedure before on the Developer group site (Google). Redirecting to Google Groups
That time you wanted to add a new virtual pin to the Arduino core. Both your menu system and virtual pins I think are interesting ideas.
Now there are very many levels of "introducing" this to the group. The hardest is getting new functionality into the Arduino Core library. This is a process that might take over a year even for simplest of things. And you need to work hard to convince the "core team" of the added value. It is the nature of the process of an open source community. The easiest is just, as posted as an answer, zip your files and post here.
Now the difficult part; What is your intention? Maintain a library for the Arduino community? Post and forget? Become one of the Arduino maintainers? Start an on-line business and sell some special hardware that uses the library?
Last but not least; I think it is very important to remember that this is a commercial based forum site even though it looks like an open source community. The forum is a way of reducing the cost of customer service for the Arduino products. It is a marketing strategy - and a very good one. With that said it become obvious that marketing of other "products" is not allowed.
I leave the rest as homework.
Cheers!
Thanks for all enlightening answers, I do not have much experience coding for the arduino... so I do not have great pretensions of being one of the maintainers, i might maintain the library if it proves to be of interest, anyway the code is open and is on a public site.
Guess that convincing other people of the usefulness of this things will pass by writing good documentation... getting into that!
And yes my link was broken, thanks for fixing it, hope i can do better next time.
Just to say that I've released version 2.0 of the library and as suggested I've posted it into the user library page.
No i do not intend to sell hardware using this library, its been made generic and its public.
I've done a lot of efforts to make it hardware independent just because I do need a menu here and there in my projects and I think the community can benefit from it.
2.0 news are a non-blocking menu cycle and the menu fields concept, fields are just menu prompt that show an associated value. The library has the code to change the values as well.
This is supposed to work with a variety of output devices such as, Serial, LCD's and Graphic screens (made extendable)
and the same with the input ranging from Serial to encoders, others can extend that to other hardware too.
Great improvements done into the <pcint.h> originally grabbed from this site and now its compatible also with my atmega2560. As I've used the Arduino environment macros I hope it will be compatible with a lot of other boards if not all.
thank you