Hi all,
I am Aneela, working on GSoC project “Improving the GNU Radio Companion” mentored by Sebastian Koslowski.
Since, we are already half way through summer, I want to share my progress in project and seek some feedback from community.
Just to remind, my project is divided in different sub-projects. As of today, I have completed sub-projects 1 and 2 and working on sub project 3.
1) Documentation access of GNU Radio blocks from within GRC:
Documentation of GNU Radio blocks (standard + custom) can be accessed now from within GRC. If user has Internet connection then he can access the documentation from Internet. Feature of accessing local copy of documentation is also available in case of
unavailability of network connection. In summary, an entry has been added in main, context and toolbar menu to access the documentation. Moreover, while opening the document, GRC console displays the document URI/path address. Finally, an error message appears
if documentation of selected block is not available.
2) Source code access of GNU Radio blocks from within GRC:
We can now open the source code (.py and .cc files) of GNU Radio blocks from within GRC. For this, an entry has been added in toolbar menu to fetch the source code. However, only those users can access the source code who have installed the GNU Radio from
source. As before, an error message appears if source code of selected block is not available in the local system.
Below is the ongoing sub project which I plan to finish by the mid term evaluation.
3) Creating new custom blocks from within GRC and edit them
We will build upon gr-modtool to create new custom DSP blocks from GRC. Specifically, we will add an entry in toolbar menu that will cause a Dialog box to pop up. Then, that Dialog box will ask the user the necessary questions (e.g. module name, block name
etc.) regarding the creation of new block.
Last but not the least, below is the link to my code repo:
https://github.com/aneelayasmeen/gnuradio/tree/GRCimprovements
I will appreciate any kind of helpful suggestions.
Thanks,
Aneela Yasmeen