Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen

sorry missed that - pushed fix

The DTG indrustrial is shown all the time. The prefferences option to change it doesnt work.

fixed.
And I have pushed Norbert's new screen : Gmoccapy
I'll start a separate thread for it.

Chris M

cmorley wrote:

LAIR82 wrote:
Hello Chris,

We have been following this thread from inception and are very anxious to get our machine finished to get the gscreen interface operational. I probably have another week or two and we will be applying power to this one so I can start test and tune. Couple of questions for you,

1. We have applied the fanuc style tool patch on the machine we just finished, and now that we have some hours put on the new control, realized it is almost identical to the Fagor and Cincinnati controls in regards to the wear offset option that it incorporates. Does this have this available yet or do I still need to apply that patch while compiling?

2. For the hal file what is the best to find out the I/O pins related to gscreen so I can start writing my hal file?

1) You still need the patch - I have not heard anything about this patch for a while - there was a couple things that needed to be fixed.
and the limiting of the amount of tools possible was not liked much by the devs. personally I think we should live with the limit and fix it in master.
I think the patch is worthwhile - just a few things to fix on it IIRC.

2) You can look here: wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Gscreen#Installation -It may be slightly out of date.
Also if you start a sample config of gscreen from the sim directory, then look on the debug page the terminal will display all the available gscreen pins

Chris M

Hello Chris,

We are finally near completion on our next retrofit, and now I'm trying to get GSCREEN up and running, I copied your standard INI file and configured it with the values that I used for the AXIS screen I used to get the machine running and tuned. I am not sure though if I need to do something with the gscreen_handler.py and gscreen.glade files, reason I ask is, as soon as I try to start hooking up the pins, it tells me that gscreen.whateverpin doesn't exist. The gscreen wiki talked about the files, but I dont want to make any changes to gscreen, and I didnt know if that is where my problem is or not.

Thanks
Rick

could you give the error.
could you post your HAL files. (or all config files)
Is this the default Gscreen or Industrial?

Thanks

Hi Chris,

I'm using the default Gscreen, here is a copy of what it says in my terminal when I try to start with gscreen, if you look in my Hal file I have all pins relating to gscreen #'ed out except for line 279, where the error occurs. If # that one out, gscreen starts, I can home my machine, and that's about it, because everything else goes thru my ladder. Also is my directory folder containing my configuration I'm trying to run.

cinci15cc@cinci15cc-desktop:~$ linuxcnc
LINUXCNC - 2.6.0~pre
Machine configuration directory is '/home/cinci15cc/linuxcnc/configs/15cc'
Machine configuration file is 'mygscreen.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
io started
halcmd loadusr io started
15ccgscreen.hal:279: Pin 'gscreen.change-tool' does not exist
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...
Running HAL shutdown script
Cleanup done
LinuxCNC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log:
/home/cinci15cc/linuxcnc_debug.txt
and
/home/cinci15cc/linuxcnc_print.txt
as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the terminal
cinci15cc@cinci15cc-desktop:~$

Thanks Again Chris,

Rick