Help with generators

[ZegCricket]

Hi @glopesdev,

I'm starting the development of a new device, so my idea would be to try the new generators, which as far as I know now generate both the Bonsai interface and the firmware (in my case, for the ATxmega).

I used the old reflex-generator in the past, but I'm having some difficulty using the new version. I already read the documentation, but it's not clear to me what are the steps to follow. Could you help me with this?

I'm curious about why you chose to make the generators into a package instead of a CLI tool that takes the device.yml and the ios.yml. I thought the end goal was to abstract the developer of the device from the interface code, but it seems that I have to interact with dotnet/C# for some reason, which is something I'm not familiar with.

I also had some difficulty finding the ios.yml file mentioned in the documentation. I eventually found this one. Is it possible to make this more visible or explicit?

Thanks in advance!

[glopesdev]

@ZegCricket the code generators are indeed distributed as a CLI tool: harp.toolkit. This link points to the specific code generation documentation section which is probably more helpful from a usage point of view. The package you are targeting is infrastructure to be reused in other projects and not meant to be consumed directly in most cases.

[ZegCricket]

Thank you very much! It really helps a lot!

Was there an intuitive way for me to get there that I missed?