Creating a GUI

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This is great work John! I think a lot of people will find this useful and will break down another guru barrier.
Thanks for sharing.

Chris M

Hi John,

Looking good, let me know when gui 6 is ready!

Rick G

Did not know you were uploading as you go, will have to take a look.

Rick G

Hi John

Generally libraries do these sort of things.

They can provide a wrapper around various low-level functions to make the process higher level, more productive and more usable.
All API's do this sort of thing.

They also allow re-usable code without repeating it, reducing code size and increasing convenience.
A function or class can do this in one project, but a library can be re-used in all your projects.

The criteria will probably be, are you using the same code to do something in several places in your program?
If so abstract it into a function or class and then call that each time you do the task.

Do you foresee this same task arising in other programs?
If so put it into a library and then you save yourself cutting and pasting, not to mention re-reading the code to try and figure out what it does 2 yrs later, for life

regards

Yeah precisely that.

For instance, instead of lots of different calls to set the feedrate, toggle incremental / constant etc. for each axis, you could use
jogAxis(int axis, double speed, bool positive = true, bool constant_feed = true)

(The last 2 args default to true, so you only need 2 args a lot of the time)

You then write a function jogAxis() which takes those arguments and does the jog required for the required axis.

Before you know it you will be building up a library of useful routines that save you having to go back to the docs every time you want to do something.

(obviously the example is C specific, anaconda will be slightly different but same basis)

regards