[Qgis-developer] Re: GPS feature

[John C. Tull]

Hi Tim,

Well, the gebabbel program does not offer any insights. It does not poll for gps devices. Perhaps looking into the updated qextserialport project code? 

http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/

It looks like things have changed considerably from the 1.0.0 code in qgis.

John

On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:48 PM, John C. Tull wrote:

> The gui is working now. Thanks for your work on that today. Unfortunately, no ports are being picked up on OS X. This has always been a problem with the gps plugin, so there is a mutual issue for your new feature and that plugin.
> 
> There must be some qt code that works on all platforms because other qt-based projects reportedly work on multiple platforms, including OS X. Perhaps a solution can be found from this one:
> http://gebabbel.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Here is an older bug report on the gps plugin I filed:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1170
> 
> Cheers,
> John