All frontends will have to include <libsigrok/libsigrok.h> from now on.
This header includes proto.h and version.h, both installed from the
distribution into $INCLUDE/libsigrok/ as well.
The only dynamically changed header is now version.h, which has both
libsigrok and libtool compile-time versions in it.
Samples received before the trigger point are stored. From the
trigger point on, every chunk received from the device is sent
up the session bus. After the device has finished sending, the
stored samples are transmitted.
MQ is the measured quantity, e.g. voltage, current, temperature.
UNIT is the unit in which these quantities are measured, e.g. volt,
ampere, celsius, kelvin, etc. etc.
The same MQ can be specified in different UNITs by the driver, depending
on what the hardware reports. Conversion is left to the frontends.
Not yet used, but it's the key to knowing where in the frame to
start displaying; the frame is used as a circular buffer, and what
is sent is effectively a snapshot.
The ntohs() from <arpa/inet.h> is not available on MinGW/Windows. There
are ways to work around this, but as we use glib already, using g_ntohs()
is the best option anyway.
Bert Vermeulen
Uwe Hermann