GUI Discussion

Hi John

Thanks for trying it.

Yes the DRO uses a lot of space. but for me, I like the look.
I am not sure how much you played with it - some things are hidden at the moment:
If you double click the back plot it will hide/show the status screen giving more room for the backplot.
Also of course if you have a second screen the backplot can be full screen on the second monitor.

The check buttons are just to show status of the coolant - you turn them on and off with the bottom 'soft' keys
You might not have been in the right mode. (mode 1 -again double click the mode button)
In fact i will change them to LEDs when I have the HAL part finished.

current coordinate system is shown in the top right.
Offsets for G92 and current tool are to be added - just not done yet.
But when is that needed at manual and MDI mode or do you like to check in auto mode too?

The link to AXIS is required because Gscreen is not complete enough - it help with testing.

I have since remember that Pavel gave me a link to a GUI he was working on that completely used gladeVCP.
So now I can see why some objects ( like MDI ) don't work outside of gladeVCP without some added code to Gscreen.

Doing a screen outside of gladeVCP allows more flexibility.

I need to buy a touch screen. Any recommendations from Ebay?
How big would most people use?

Rick

It seems EMC 2.5 is required.

i'm using a 23" acer T230H from Ebay
uses usb for the touch input
installed multitouch driver with a change in the support screen types listing , to get it to work , but no big deal to do
and works fine

Hell Chris,

Yep did not want to work on 2.4.

On my office computer now on 2.6 with dual monitors it seems to work fine, I put Axis on one screen and moved the other GUI to the other, the idea of an easy to customize screen is pretty cool.
It looks like the coolant and mist buttons are reversed with their indicators, no big deal.

Perhaps a small screen such as seen on Ebay...
2012 Lilliput EBY701-NP/C/T Touch Screen Monitor w/ Auto Switch Car PC Carputer
could be used as a custom pendant for large machines where you are not close to the main monitor. I believe some of these are usb powered and have only one cord.


Rick G

Here is a version with much more functionality.
Still just for testing concepts.

Here is a pic of Gscreen in Redmond theme a little more mainnstream.

Hello Chris,

I will try that later today, what do you think of the idea of a small hand held touch screen monitor?

Rick G