I’m working with a hardware simulator for a project. It outputs statistics at the end in a very structured but ugly way. It can be tiresome to read so I would like to write a GUI to help me display it better. Would anybody have an idea of what framework and widgets I could use to quickly and painlessly construct something clean? I would like to be able to navigate the subnodes of the tree and hide (collapse) nodes I’m not interested in.
The statistics output take a form like this
root {
foo = "bar";
foo_num = 1;
machine {
core0 {
fetch {
renamed {
none = 13559;
flags = 3013;
reg_and_flags = 10735;
reg = 8430;
}
width[5] = {
Minimum: 381
Maximum: 17450
Average: 1.248
Total Sum: 28627
Weighted Sum: 35737
Threshold: 3
[ 61.0% ] [ 61.0% ] 0 0 17450 ******************************
[ 1.3% ] [ 62.3% ] 1 1 381
[ 12.1% ] [ 74.4% ] 2 2 3476 ******
[ 3.1% ] [ 77.5% ] 3 3 876 *
[ 22.5% ] [ 100% ] 4 4 6444 ***********
};
status (total 57920) {
[ 0.0% ] rob_full = 0; { (zero) }
[ 35.9% ] ldq_full = 20789;
[ 2.4% ] fetchq_empty = 1394;
[ 0.0% ] physregs_full = 0; { (zero) }
[ 61.7% ] complete = 35737;
[ 0.0% ] stq_full = 0; { (zero) }
}
}
}
}
There is already a parser that creates a kind of tree from a binary file, it is written in C++ so perhaps it is better if a choose a framework for this language. An alternative would be to generate XML output and then use another language to process the information.
I’m not very experienced with visual programming and I don’t really know what kind of widgets are available. Any suggestions and pointers would be appreciated.
When I’m just trying to display some information, and I don’t really need interaction, I sometimes make the program output a simple html page. It’s fast and trivial to do things like tables and images (in virtually any format). If you need graphs, there are web-APIs like Google’s chart API.