GUI Discussion

hmm handheld must be pretty damn small - I bet you would need a screen specifically designed for it.

So the feedback I have says every one hates check buttons for the coolant status.
So do I ! I added them cause they were quick while I worked on underlaying code to control them.
i think I would rather LEDs but could make the label toggle different colors..

BigJohnT wrote:

..Don't know if many people use both mist and flood on a machine... for me it is one or the other so coolant on/off works.

John

On my bigger machines I'd use both depending on the tool - mist (air) for a lot of my Sandvik coated carbide, flood for everything else. If you flood the high end carbide you get cracks in the cutting edge.


cmorley wrote:

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

Damn! ..Very clean!!
My thoughts..
- Tighten up the buttons on the side, you'll need that real-estate for even more buttons!
- every time I see that MV I think Muzzle Velocity (as I do rifle building)
- you may want to toggle coolant to "Off / Mist / Flood / Aux" as only one state would be valid at any one time. This is a problem I see in Axis, you could have both mist and flood on at the same time. You may want an AUX coolant toggle as well - It's useful when you setup external high pressure coolant - useful when chambering gun barrels in a lathe. You would setup the Aux to take some M-code.
- have a look at the Centroid Control. They use a very thin line gauge as a load meter on each axis - pretty slick.
- A thought.. you may want to have your function buttons along the bottom, and your page buttons along the side. You may end up with two rows of buttons along the bottom. I see this as emulating the touchpad buttons on commercial controllers.
- Need a tool page! Something of a very simple tool offset setting page. Setting offsets is one area that every new user has trouble with. I take my queue for this from Centroid as well.
- Am I right in assuming your G-Code scroll/edit would be on a separate page?
- Lastly, I think you shouldn't hesitate to use some of the icons from Axis. It will give it the "a member of the family" feel.


Overall a very nice look!

Jay

yea definatley a Off / Mist /Flood / and Aux option would be real good as i have a few machines i can use that one

BigJohnT wrote:

Yea, I have air and flood on the VMC but mist was confusing me into thinking of those little misting units they sell for knee mills.

John

Right.. Now I've got it. Hmm.. Seems to me I only see flood and mist out there as the usual choices.

Jay

I haven't done much on Gscreen lately.

I had to add some code to gladevcp to be able to save g code edits.
So a fairly recent pull is required.

But now you can edit gcode directly. It's still a little clumsy - you must remember to save the changes
or else the gcode on the screen will be different from whats run.

A few other experimental changes to try different controls of the layout...

just tried this

mah@ubuntu-10:~/emc2-mw/configs/sim/gscreen$ python gscreen.py
**** Gscreen GLADE ERROR: With xml file: /home/mah/emc2-mw/configs/sim/gscreen/gscreen_test.glade

gscreen_test.glade missing?

-mah

Yes I screwup while switching from testing file.

on line 39 of gscreen.py change to:

xmlname = os.path.join(BASE,"gscreen/gscreen.glade")

or here its fixed with ability to toggle different views too:

Chris ,
i'm getting gscreen.py line 62 , no module named linuxcnc
am i missing something ?

i'm using latest master , so just wondering if a paths missing etc
due to name changes

Dave