Creating a GUI

I was kinda wandering off track on the Gscreen topic so I thought I'd start a new topic on this. I see Chris used Touchy as a template for Gscreen so that got me to looking at what the other Chris had done to create Touchy.

If you download the source from the git repo go to src/emc/usr_interface/touchy and you can see the files that Chris used to create touchy. There is a glade file and some python files and a submake file. I assume if you copied the modules emc_interface.py, filechooser.py, hal_interface.py, listing.py, mdi.py, preferences.py to a new directory and used touchy.glade and touchy.py and submakefile as templates you could create a new gui.

We will see how far I can get with that... I have some basic Gtk Glade Python tutorials on my web site that have helped me to get the basics of that combo understood.

I'd like to see what the bare minimum of code was needed to just run the gui with linuxcnc and not even do much...

John

Chris,

If you want to move the plasma discussion over here it is fine with me.

Here is a screen shot of what I was generally thinking of.



The file I used to run the glade which does nothing but exit nicely.



John

I get an internal server error on the py file...

John

Ok zipping the file seems to work...



John

That works for me...

John

Ok, I have a gui piggy backed onto Axis... what is the minimum needed to run it stand alone?

The tool bar was a bugger to figure out... add a tool bar, add some hal actions, click on the button bar int the tree cause it disappears from the screen... then click on the edit button on the button bar then add your toggle buttons. Add a stock icon to each action and add the related action to the toggle button and select use action appearance... whew tough to sort out the first time.

The back plot will display a file that is opened and show tool movement but the dro seems too big I might move it somewhere else later. Also the screen doesn't pan like Axis does but rotates about the center... yuck.





John