Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen
21 Jan 2013 03:43 - 21 Jan 2013 03:43 #28890
by cmorley
1) Interesting! That was they way it was designed. so that while button or joystick jogging. bumping the MPG wouldn't change anything.
let me think on that though probably an INI setting for continues mpg rate or something...
2) Yes I can see how that's a bit annoying. But here starts the problem with GUIs - everyone has different needs!
Gscreen is a fairly generic machine control screen made so someone with the minimum hardware can still run something.
By adding more hardware make it much easier to do things IMHO.
For me I would add a rotary switch for increment selection. something like 8 or ten positions. I like the tactile feel and the know-position-without-looking utility. Others might like push buttons or MPG adjustments.
The other way is to build a custom screen with buttons for direct jog increment selection. You have to find a spot that make sense and has room.
depending on your screen resolution you may have room vertically - but every one should have room horizontally.
I would add direct selection but for two reasons;
1) Where do I put but them that makes sense - remembering that the screen can have 9 axis showing, so some obvious spots are used up.
2) a minor reason but if someone has a physical selection switch/dial then the opposite is true - he won't want the selection buttons! by doing it the way I did the selection is somewhat hidden if you don't need it but is there if you do. A compromise.
I'm interested in ideas though. It is a complaint I bet I'm going to hear quite a bit :0
Chris M
Replied by cmorley on topic Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen
Yes that would have been fine.Well I'll defer to consensus about whether it should be allowed.
but if it popped a dialog (with 'override' title) it probably would have been more obvious yes?
A couple more questions about jog increments.
1. When set to continuous, gscreen.jog-increment.out is zero. This essentially disables the panel-mount jogwheel, because it uses the increment from gscreen. In our setup the MPG uses its own set of increments so it still works. How about if gscreen.jog-increment.out used the largest jog increment if continuous is set. I wonder if others would use a similar setup, and have any comments about this.
2. When touching off the work or a tool, we normally start with the largest jog increment and then go to lower increments as we get closer, winding up with a 0.0001" increment. It's a bit cumbersome to go into Set Override mode to change the increment and back out to change the axis.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
Karl
1) Interesting! That was they way it was designed. so that while button or joystick jogging. bumping the MPG wouldn't change anything.
let me think on that though probably an INI setting for continues mpg rate or something...
2) Yes I can see how that's a bit annoying. But here starts the problem with GUIs - everyone has different needs!
Gscreen is a fairly generic machine control screen made so someone with the minimum hardware can still run something.
By adding more hardware make it much easier to do things IMHO.
For me I would add a rotary switch for increment selection. something like 8 or ten positions. I like the tactile feel and the know-position-without-looking utility. Others might like push buttons or MPG adjustments.
The other way is to build a custom screen with buttons for direct jog increment selection. You have to find a spot that make sense and has room.
depending on your screen resolution you may have room vertically - but every one should have room horizontally.
I would add direct selection but for two reasons;
1) Where do I put but them that makes sense - remembering that the screen can have 9 axis showing, so some obvious spots are used up.
2) a minor reason but if someone has a physical selection switch/dial then the opposite is true - he won't want the selection buttons! by doing it the way I did the selection is somewhat hidden if you don't need it but is there if you do. A compromise.
I'm interested in ideas though. It is a complaint I bet I'm going to hear quite a bit :0
Chris M
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