QNX Beginners' Pages

I no longer use QNX so I'm out of touch with recent developments and these pages may become dated.

This is a collection of examples, tutorials, and notes on administrating and programming QNX Neutrino and Photon. The tutorials are deliberately kept very simple, and focus on the topic being explained.

The Photon API seems much like Linux GTK, so the GTK website contains some useful documentation.

My suggested solutions are designed to teach basics as simply as possible. Thus, they are probably not the best way of doing things. However, they are all tested and work on my system. But you use them at your own risk.

For information about button pads suitable for detecting button presses with high accuracy and precision, visit the pages of my colleague, Gary Freegard.

General Documents

• Beginner's Guide to Using QNX
• General Notes on Using and Configuring QNX Neutrino
• General Notes on Using and Configuring QNX Photon
• Tips on Programming in QNX and PhAB
• Installing QNX from CD to Hard Disk
• Obtaining and Installing Java on QNX
• Real-time Links

Neutrino Tutorials

• Simple Example of Multi-threaded Program
• Handling Interrupts from the Parallel Port
• Polling Inputs on the Parallel Port
• Sending Output via the Parallel Port
• Sample Timing Test Results of Neutrino's Parallel Port Interrupt Handling
• Sending Messages (IPC) between Processes

Photon Tutorials

• Showing an Image in a Label using a Button Callback
• Adjusting a Label's Position within a Window
• Changing a Resource of the Parent Widget
• Adjusting colours in Pterm using ANSI and the Palette
• Sending a Pulse to a Neutrino Process
• Utilising Radio Buttons in PhAB

Content last updated: 2012-07-31