Comments on: pattern visualization

By: Jinx

Jinx — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:19:38 +0000

I’ve got to recomend python. Not only is it a great language, it seems well suited for this project. You can extend it with c or asm for the tricky parts, and python itself could serve as the built in language used for simple tasks.
@ Jay V. XML … I never would have thought of that.

By: verbalshadow

verbalshadow — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:46:59 +0000

A very brilliant idea as rejon said. i would suggest it accept multiple files (at least two) of the same format to allow deeper pattern analysis.

By: MenTaLguY

MenTaLguY — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:31:49 +0000

I’ve wanted something like that as well in the past, I’ve just been too busy/lazy to produce it.

Another way of looking at it is that it basically amounts to a protocol analyzer whose definitions could be updated on-the-fly.

By: rejon.org = jon phillips portal

rejon.org = jon phillips portal — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:11:10 +0000

[...] Kees idea is brilliant! It would’ve worked well for Alan Turing and others when working on Enigma back during WW2. Posted by jon @ 11:49:53 2005.07.14 [...]

By: jay vaughan

jay vaughan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:59:11 +0000

i’ve also been in the same boat, reverse engineering file-formats, and i’ve found that instead of using a GUI to do something like this, just use XML. yes, XML …

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:03:44 +0000

if you look in the documentation that ships with most distributions you shoud be able to find a bunch of pygtk examples.
included with them is an example which allows you to take a glade file and preview it running using Python. I’ve found this quite useful although I haven’t taken the next step of actually writing a python backend for any of my mockups but it might interest you to check it out.