GUI Discussion

cmorley wrote:

... the labels you are referring to are part of a gladeVCP widget so I cannot change them unless I commit code to EMC (which I might later)

Chris,

I'm not entirely sure this is the case.

I would think that it is possible to import the widgets and customize them by defining a subclass and redefining as needed them before they are displayed. I havent tried this though.

Where's Pavel when we need him

- Michael

That would be good news.
I guess some experiments then some added docs are in order.
There are a couple other things I have come across for instance LEDs

In Gscreen I'd like to use LEDs as indicators but without HAL pins - I want to set and unset them in the program.
Thinking further I could see a want of LEDs that one can change in the program but wish that they export a HAL pin that follows the LED state.

adding HAL pins as an option: in / out / or none should not be that hard...

gladeVCP is so powerful now - it has grown farther then I imagined when I started it - I'm so glad You guys took it and ran !!

I was speaking of g33 specifically

<rant on>
but you prove my point not many machinists think of threading as 'spindle sync motion' it's threading!
On the Okuma I used it could thread longitudinally, scroll or taper wit G33 ( or was it G32?)
It had a few other threading g codes such as variable pitch etc.
I will look it up in the manual when I get time...

ridged tapping is of course different hence the different g code. I've never used a 5 axis machine.

What would have made more sense is have g33 work as standard and have the current behavior as a different g code such as g33.2
Wouldn't it make sense to have the 99% common behavior standard and the 1 % an option?
I can think of little reason one would need the pitch to be parallel to an angle. Parallel to X or Z you bet.

your argument that EMC is correct because we call it 'spindle sync motion" not threading is a programmer or engineers view.
Your not wrong but why would we do that ?

<Rant off>

I hope i have not offended any programmers or engineers.
Tradesmen and engineers seldom see exactly eye to eye! Which is probably not all bad..

Chris m