Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to use GUI with gr.top_block

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +0100, Martin Braun wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:21:35AM -0700, kaleem ahmad wrote:
> > I am extending my main class from gr.top_block and I have noticed that all
> > application examples which implement GUI are using stdgui.gui_flow_graph. I
> > have tried stdgui.....but in my application that cant be used because I have
> > to run parallel/multiple flowgraphs but I want to implement GUI as well. Can
> > some one guide me how can integerate GUI with such an application using
> > gr.top_block, it would be better if one could refer me to some example code
> > (which contain top_block and gui). 
> 
> If you can use one top_block, you can use one gui_flow_graph. See
> http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/Tutorials/WritePythonApplications
> to get started.
> 
> Otherwise, remember Python's a super-powerful language. Just write your GUI 
> app
> using whatever widgets you like (wx, GTK, QT) and add control for your
> top_block(s) otherwise. The stdgui is only a shortcut, albeit a pretty
> useful one.
> 
> Martin

All true.  In any event, one top block shouldn't really be much of a
limitation.  It can contain multiple disjoint graphs.  See tunnel.py
for an example (w/o GUI) of this.

Eric