GNU Gluco Control
About software
GNU Gluco Control (in further help GGC) is open source software, which means that is free and it's
created by people (in their free time), so it also means that it comes with no guarantee that it will
work 100%. We are trying to do our best, but since our team is very small, we can only do so much.
Project GGC was created by developer Dieter Schultschik in year 2002 and was later abandoned (due to lack
of time). Project was taken over by developer Andy (Aleksander) Rozman in year 2005. After that a lot of
thing were changed (internationlization, database support, food database support, etc.), and also most
of visual part were changed, but main look stayed the same (except we now support several more Look &
Feels). Later we were joined by Reinhold Rumberger, who took over testing and also support for German
language.
We are now at 0.4.20 version, we are still "running low on developers", so any help is
appreciated. If you feel like it, you can help us too, either with development, translation
or just testing of new features.
Plugins
In 2008 we started think about support for different hardware (glucose meters, pumps and other) and we
came to conclusion, that it would be better to make support for different hardware through so called
plugins. Plugins were planned to have possibility to be run by themselves, but most of functionality
can be achived only by working together with GGC. First plugin Meter Tool was created so that it could
be used as seperate application, but all other plugins, lack this functionality (for now). Main idea of
plugin is that it can be developed separately from main GGC application, and with this making less
problem for new developers. To first plugin we now added Pump Tool and CGMS Tool.
Program mode
We can now run GGC on two modes. First is Pen/Injection mode and second mode is Pump mode. Software
will run the same in both modes, only change is in Toolbar and in Statistics (on main page).
About help
This help is still work in progress, meaning that a lot of help is still missing. We plan to have
full help by next major release (0.5). For translation of help you will have to wait though. It could take
translators some time to translate help (and software). We created Translation Tool (in 2010) so that
translation progress can now be much faster
Support
As we told before, this is open source software, so support is offered through several channels. You can
get support by writing on list (on sourceforge.net, find link on out homepage), forum or by emailing us.
Email supported is handled through our external address: ggc@atech-software.com. Support is available in
English, German or Slovene.
Quick "How To"
As help is not there yet, here are quick pointers on How To get GGC up and running:
1. Visit Tools\Preferences to set your name, and all other settings (go through all settings there)
2. If you wish to use Bolus Helper, also set Ratio
3. You are ready to go...
Quick "What can you do"
File - this menu has all stuff needed for stopping application and at later time for handling for multiple personalities.
Pen/Injection - this menu has all stuff needed for pen/injection theraphy.
- Daily Overview - Adding daily entries. You can just type entries for BGs (in either format) or
insulin, or you can let Bolus Helper help you determine your insulin dose (for this you need valid
target entries and set ratios). You can set CH manually, or you can set Foods (from Food databases)
and CH will be automatically calculated.
- Graphs - There are several graphs available (this will be extended and changed in future)
- HbA1c - Shows calculated HbA1c
- Ratio - Here you can set either Base or Extended (comming in 0.5) ratios.
Food - this menu has everything for food databases.
- USDA - static (read-only) database from ministry of Agriculture
- User - this is user database, where user can add it's own data
- Meals - this database contains data, which can be derived from itself or other databases.
- Hint: All tree entries have context menus (available by right click)
Doctor - this will contain Doctor data, Appointments and Stock data. Not available yet.
Printing - here you can find data for printing. We do printing with help of PDF, which needs PDF
viewer, any that can start files over commandline will work.
- Data - This are reports for Pen/Injection therapy. Simple report creates one entry per day, while Extended shows each entry as it own.
- Food menu - This is for printing food menus, it's tied to foods used in Pen/Injection therapy.
Meters - this is Meter plugin context. It is used for communication with Meters.
- Meter Read - read data from configured Meter.
- Meters List - list of all Meters (supported and unsuported).
- Meters Configuration - configuration of this plugin.
- Meters About - about this plugin.
Pumps - this is Pump plugin context. It has communication for Pumps and also some other Pump stuff.
- Profiles - setting profiles (N/A).
- Manual Entry - Manual entry of all Pump data.
- Pump Read - Read from Pump (N/A).
- Additional Data - additional data for pumps (not transfered from pumps).
- Pumps List - list of all Pumps (supported and unsuported).
- Pump Configuration - configuration of this plugin.
- Pump About - about this plugin.
CGMS - this is CGMS plugin context. It is used for communication with CGMS.
Tools -contains Settings and Database maintainance.
- Preferences - configuration of whole application.
- Database maintainance - Backup and Restore of data (also partitial).
Help - this Help and also Update functionality (Not available yet)