Simulator

Is it possible to take my working lathe INI + HAL and make this work in Simulator?

Would like to test out GUI's in my laptop

Cheers
Bengt

Axis in lathe mode with Lathe macros is what I want to play around with for starters.

Here is what I would try to do, first load one of the sim lathe example configs, the one that is closest to what you might like to do. Such as sim/axis/ngcgui/ngcgui_lathe.

Then copy your ini file to the config directory for that sim, and edit your ini file so that it calls the same hal file(s) as the ini for the sim. You will also need to add any additional display lines, such as the ones that call up VCPs, simply copy those lines from the sim ini to your new ini. You might still find you need to make further edits to your ini or the hal files but the above should get you close.

Did setup a new profile with simulated hardware but gett error message like this.



rsvp was missing now installed but *play* button is not there, what to do?

Ah, NativeCAM, I have not played with that. It may have more ini requirements than an ordinary config.
Could you post the ini file you are trying to use, and the one for the original sim config you are trying to graft onto.

I made a new setup via stepconfig so it is only this INI

@Techno,

You error has to do with a picture of a button. Can you add a picture to the button in glade? Or maybe in glade delete the button image related traceback?
Do you have a .glade file of your actual screen loaded?
For the rest your error is located in the usr ... bin... glade file, when this is happening, you can not solve this there.
So it's a quite simple problem, but has to solve in the top of the program... somewhere in glade or somewhere in your current used files.
I think you don't have to search in the python files first. I preferr to solve it in the glade file's if possible.

I was hoping for a straight forward install of Lathe Macros just following instructions of what to copy where.
Do not know anything glade etc...

Hi Techno,

Okey thanks, the error report is for me too difficult too solve with macro instructionś or command line instructionś, sorry for that.

Maybe Todd can do something with teamviewer with you to solve the problem... Idea?

In your ini file i see a suspected item :
EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -u lathehandler.py -x {XID} lathemacro.ui

Why a double "gladevcp gladevcp"?

My logic tab line idea would be :

EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp -c gladevcp -u lathehandler.py -x {XID} lathemacro.ui

This is logic without looking ad the meaning of the code that is written... Double loading makeś most of time no sense.

This comes from README file in LatheMacro-3.zip

This config demonstrates the Lathe macros described here:
www.linuxcnc.org/index.php/english/forum...s/26550-lathe-macros
To add the macros to your own config you need to add this line to the INI file [DISPLAY] section:
[DISPLAY]
EMBED_TAB_NAME=Cycles
EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -u lathehandler.py -x {XID} lathemacro.ui

Then put these files in the same directory as the INI file.
Bore.png
boring.ngc
chamfer.png
chamfer.ngc
facing.ngc
Facing.png
radius.ngc
radius.png
Threading.png
threading.ngc
turning.ngc
Turn.png
lathehandler.py
lathemacro.ui

If I edit and erase that gladevcp LCNC will not start! So there must be something else that is wrong here.