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. Food - this menu has everything for food databases. 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. Meters - this is Meter plugin context. It is used for communication with Meters. Pumps - this is Pump plugin context. It has communication for Pumps and also some other Pump stuff. CGMS - this is CGMS plugin context. It is used for communication with CGMS.

Tools -contains Settings and Database maintainance. Help - this Help and also Update functionality (Not available yet)