Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen

cmorley wrote: How does every one feel about losing the entry widget and just having the numerical keyboard pop up every time you need to set something?

I'm good with this.
Often the same value is entered several times. What do people think of having it default to the value last entered? Pressing one button (clr) gets you back to nothing.

Karl

Rather than having to type something to clear the last entry,
how about using the up/down cursor keys to select from the entry history
so to get to the previous entry, you hit the up arrow. hitting the up arrow again
goes back through the history list and hitting down goes forward (just like the shell)

That's an interesting idea.

But I wonder how often it's needed.
even with my limited cnc experience, I bet just remembering the last number would be enough.

Also I'd have to add up / down keys to the pop up keyboard.

cmorley wrote: AXIS uses touch-off and you pre-select whether its for origin setting or tool setting.

And I forget to pre-select so often that I am probably going to edit Axis on my lathe to have two separate buttons.
(Because if you get it wrong, the whole tool table ends up wrong)

cmorley wrote: How does every one feel about losing the entry widget and just having the numerical keyboard pop up every time you need to set something?

Sounds good

karlkec wrote:

cmorley wrote: at the moment I know that tool setting to a common point is missing, I'm just not sure how best to do it.
AXIS uses touch-off and you pre-select whether its for origin setting or tool setting.
I would like something more obvious.
I could have the tool setting buttons show up when the tool table is showing ....
Chris M

I think having it on the tool table page would work well. Include the ability to change tools from there too (tool index button). Could even highlight the row in the tool table matrix for the currently-loaded tool. When a tool is touched off the values in the tool table matrix should update. My thinking is that the tool table page would have everything necessary to set up all the tools in the changer.

Karl

Yes and Yes