pyngcgui

Okay, so for someone that has just built the PC and installed LCNC ( with some amazingly wonderful assistance from cncbasher ), how would one add this to their setup?

adding pyngcgui to your emc2-dev git repro is simple enough
however running it in gui's such as gmoccapy , requires adding and editing code at the moment it does not seem to want to work in gmoccapy , although iv'e not had much time to look at this , I feel some editing of the gui may be required further .

it does work in other gui's available .
so should not be difficult to merge into the newer glade gui's , so it's work in progress

cncbasher wrote:

adding pyngcgui to your emc2-dev git repro is simple enough
however running it in gui's such as gmoccapy , requires adding and editing code at the moment it does not seem to want to work in gmoccapy , although iv'e not had much time to look at this , I feel some editing of the gui may be required further . it does work in other gui's available . so should not be difficult to merge into the newer glade gui's , so it's work in progress

Ah. Okay. I'll wait till it's been worked out then. Thanks.

BigJohnT wrote:

This is a touch screen GUI just so you know. If you don't have a touch screen the Axis GUI is the best one to use. In a nutshell you have to install git, pull master, add the patch, then run master as a RIP (Run In Place). I can get the specifics after breakfast if you like...
JT

Thanks John. By way of heads-up, yes, I did put a touch screen on the box I built for the Emco turning center. I did it specifically because I want to give gmoccapy a try. Frankly, I was pretty excited when cncbasher showed it to me. Very nice. So being able to have this with it would be quite nice. Still if I have to exit out and use ngcgui for now, that is fine too. Thanks.

Patch updated:
www.panix.com/~dgarrett/pyngcgui/v046.patch
Instructions (git master reqd):
www.panix.com/~dgarrett/pyngcgui/pyngcgui.txt

Example ini files are:

configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_touchy.ini
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_touchy_lathe.ini

configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_gscreen.ini
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_gscreen_popupkeyboard.ini

configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_axis.ini

configs/sim/gmoccapy/pyngcgui_gmoccapy.ini
configs/sim/gmoccapy/pyngcgui_gmoccapy_popupkeyboard.ini

The pyngcgui_gmoccapy demo is kind of a kludge but shows embedded usage
of both pyngcgui and gremlin_view.


> requires adding and editing code at the moment
? the examples included, at least in this patch, don't require any editing of code -- please explain what needs editing if you try this patch

thanks for the update , i'll load it up once i get back home later today ..

Pyngcgui has been added to linuxcnc git master and is now available with recent buildbot debs. (buildbot.linuxcnc.org/)

The ini demo files illustrate how to add Pyngcgui and Gremlinview tab pages to several guis:

Touchy (with popupkeyboard for touch screen usage)
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_touchy.ini
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_touchy_lathe.ini

Gscreen
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_gscreen.ini
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_gscreen_popupkeyboard.ini

Gmoccapy
configs/sim/gmoccapy/pyngcgui_gmoccapy.ini
configs/sim/gmoccapy/pyngcgui_gmoccapy_with_popupkeyboard.ini
(for feasibilty demonstration only)
( requires an existing ngcgui config for links)
( not all of gmoccapy files are copied by the config picker)

Axis
configs/sim/ngcgui/pyngcgui_axis.ini
(included for completeness)
(the original ngcgui (tcl version) integrates more completely with axis)

Also provided are standalone apps named gremlin_view and pyngcgui.
For options, use:
$ gremlin_view --help
$ pyngcgui --help