New GUI for Emc available for testing...

Hi Thomas
i was trying out your GUI, very nice work

i noticed mocca looks for CONFIG in ini, and does not read config, seems case sensitive, took awhile to work out why it was not seeing reading the config line.

problem i do have is,
when i go to MDI i get the following pop up

Mocca
Access Violation
Press ok to ignore and risk data corruption
press cancel to kill the program

any ideas what will cause this?

thanks ,robert

PS: i got this running on Ubuntu 10.04 with EMC 2.4.1
was a missing package, just install it with
"sudo apt-get install libgtkglext1"

There was something wrong in the english versions of mocca, this was fixed in the latest binary.
We have now the english config and layout files available. So please take a look at the project homepage at googlecode. mocca.pdf is the documentation in english, still missing a lot but at least some documentation

The gtk2 OpenGl problems are gone... mocca now works on any linux with a installed Gtk2.
Pleas do NOT use mocca for lathes, it was not tested on real lathes, just on milling machines.

regards, Thomas

hi thom
for for updating moca, and also a English translation, i see there are still some areas to be translated, like on tool edit window etc.

also when i go to MDI window, i still get the error as above,

running from command line gives me this print out
hope this helps, robert

$ emc
EMC2 - 2.4.1
Machine configuration directory is '/home/superslant2/emc2/configs/sim'
Machine configuration file is 'axis_mm.ini'
Starting EMC2...
Mocca starts with correct version EMC2-2.4.1
Library loaded from: /usr/lib/
mocca reads from :/home/superslant2/emc2/configs/sim/
Default NML- File: /usr/share/emc/emc.nml
Setup is metric
Config directory = "/home/superslant2/skins/default_en/"
"index" in tool config is out of range
Added Script: test ,File: test.nc
Hal component "mocca" loaded.
[WARNING] Out of OEM specific VK codes, changing to unassigned
[WARNING] Out of unassigned VK codes, assigning $FF
Reading layout from /home/superslant2/skins/default_en/mocca.xml
Reading layout from /home/superslant2/skins/default_en/jog.xml
No Jog-Increments set in config-file
Using default configuration
Reading layout from /home/superslant2/skins/default_en/mdi.xml
Reading layout from /home/superslant2/skins/default_en/run.xml
Canon Offsets: 0.00 0.00 0.00
TApplication.HandleException Access violation
Stack trace:
$0114906E
$081C543C
$08115B5B
$08114DCA
$080EE34C
$080EDF45
$080EEF1A
$080EE415
$0805D011
$08062292
$08063369
$080EDF45
$080E925A
$0806288D
$080EC9FD
$080EFDBB
$081D9EDA
Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2...
Cleanup done
superslant2@superslant2-2:~$

The Exception was caused by an error in the Gtk2 Widgetset, This was fixed in the latest source.
Wrote yesterday the 3D Preview for mocca, so a Full 3D preview of the milled part is available now.
Source and binary will be updated end of this week,

regards, Thomas

I have been hoping for this sort of thing for years. I have designed a few screens for Mach3 with ease, but didnt now how to do them in EMC.
I have another friend who makes a living designing mach3 sreens. He wouls also be very interested in this too.
Lets see how it goes with installing Mocca.
Can the buttons be made transparent so as to show the BMP underneath?

Here is a screen I did years ago. More than likely not many peoples taste, but it demonstrates having a single BMP/JPG and having transparent buttons and DROs over it. I have found this to be the easiest method for screen design.
I wouldlove to start making screen for EMC using Mocca.

I did install Mocca but now EMC just creashes each time.

WOW

I installed today the latest files and

I'm impressed

Tried to modify f.x to downsize to a 3-Axis machine.. Will there be a easy to do description?

In my opinion mocca is woth to get his own categorie in this forum... to collect diffent "machine-gui's" etc.

Mike

I installed latest files.
Very cool.
I wish it were in a more common programming language.
It needs to be able to load halmeter and halconfig.
The wiki is probably the best place for third party skins.
Keep up the good work!
Chris