Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen

yea I think having try'd this John has somewhere the right approach for the spindle
need to cut down the sequence or multi use the buttons

more along the lines of select fwd or rev , (start at is preselected anyhow in preferences and probably wont be touched ) then spindle button becomes the start / stop ( label spindle as spindle start & spindle stop with dual colour blue /red etc
once running fwd /rev becomes + - speed control increase / decrease , only pressing spindle stop , stops the spindle ,and allows you to change direction

this gets us down to 2 button presses to start with i.e fwd /rev and spindle start in most cases , after the first initial start the direction would be already set , so only spindle start would be needed .

the preset button could be as John says pulls up a start up spindle speed which overrides the minimum , which has to be only entered before spindle start , once spindle start is pressed you can only increase / decrease speed or stop


i'd also have on gscreen start up if the machine is not homed , then everything is greyed out until it is , and only homing is allowed , perhaps a message ticker to say ' homing required , movement disabled ' perhaps

or have I missed something !

only means John whilst your waiting to figure out why the axis will not run and your getting covered in Coolant , after a few mins you remember to home the machine first .

perhaps the ! alarm could remind you to home first , but yes some form of machine not homed indication is needed , if homing is required and of course set in the ini

yes I agree the sequence of what is shown is perhaps becoming out of sync , and the complexity increases .. either way it's commendable that Chris has brought it to this level , it's becoming usable now

great work Chris .

Hey for the people interested in rolling there own screens - Gscreen can now load really custom screens:
This is gaxis.
It's a screen that Pavel sent me once.
It's now a sample screen in sim/gscreen_custom/gscreen_axis.ini

I will work on the spindle buttons some more.
Every thing your saying is making sense so stay tuned... I think i'll get it

Chris M

K I pushed spindle control change and default to homing buttons

Chris M

I changed the metric button to beside the entry widget (top right) on the sample config sim/gscreen/gscreen_custom
I kinda like it - It you guys do too, I will move it there for the regular screen too (and remove it from the preference screen)

John weren't you building a plasma screen?

could you not leave the metric button and the preferences link .. then it would show the preferences by default
that's fine my me

I'm not following that?

you want the preference screen button left there ( so this would be the default on start up ) and have the on screen button just change the DRO without changing the default start-up mode preferennce?

Is that what you mean ?
Totally doable