yet another Serial Terminal

A simple program that can be used for serial communication. The main goals of this project is to replace other serial terminal programs that I'm not quite happy with and to learn GUI programming with QML and Qt. As a consequence, this is a work-in-progress and may be pretty rough.

• Separate input and output windows
• Input history (use 'up' and 'down' keys with input window focused)
• Simple command-line interface (type "/help" into input window)
• Settable auto-scrolling of output window
• Visual cues to help distinguish input from output, commands from command response, errors, etc.
• Set custom start-of-message and end-of-message text

This is dependent on the OS.

TBD. The best starting point right now is to build from source.

Currently, the only way is to build from source. I'm hoping to create packages for popular distros soon.

TBD. The best starting point right now is to build from source.

Nothing too special about development; follows the standard Qt development process. I personally like to use Qt Creator for an IDE (also available as part of the Qt SDK).

• Qt 5.11+ (Standard Qt + Qt Quick Controls + QtSerialPort)
• Appropriate compiler such as GCC 4.8+

The easiest way to get all the prerequisites is to download the Qt SDK.

• Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/wgraba/yaTerm.git

The rest of the building process is dependent on the architecture.

This follows a pretty standard Qt build; more information can be found in the Qt Docs.

• Run qmake (debug; lose the CONFIG+= stuff for release). This is shown running in the root project path, but this can be run from any desired path as long the path to yaTerm.pro is given (useful for separating build and source files)

qmake yaTerm.pro -r -spec linux-g++ CONFIG+=debug CONFIG+=declarative_debug CONFIG+=qml_debug

• Run make

make

TBD.

I have done some preliminary testing and it looks good so far. Refer to the Qt Docs for more information; it should build like a regular Qt project on Windows; just have to change the -spec option.

TBD.