Re: [Help-glpk] Gusek : a GLPK IDE for Windows

[Andrew Makhorin]

Hi Luiz,

> I've published the Gusek project on SourceForge:
>     http://gusek.sourceforge.net

> Gusek provide an open source LP/MILP IDE for Win32, 
> packing a custom version of the SciTE editor linked to the GLPK 
> standalone solver (glpsol.exe).

> Some screenshots can be found in: 
>     http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=247228

Gusek looks very nice.

It seems to me that the following improvements would be reasonable.

1. There are too many editor's widgets, which are rarely used.
   Probably they should be hidden.

2. The solver output is written to a file and only then is displayed.
   If the solution time is long, this causes a "dead screen" effect.
   Why not to use a pipe? Another, better way is to call glp_main (it
   is the api routine that implements glpsol) and redirect the terminal
   output to the output window with glp_term_hook.

3. I think that gusek should also support files in mps and, especially,
   in cplex lp formats, not only mathprog files.

Best regards,

Andrew Makhorin