Touch Screen GUI

I fooled around this morning a bit with the manual screen for a touch screen GUI. The button bar on the top has the estop and power buttons and can select the manual notebook page, the auto page or the programming page. The status bar is on the right but it is empty. It probably needs a few more things... The touch off buttons would pop up the number entry widget to enter in any offset for the axis selected. The jog increment would be a drop down box to select continuous or and increment from the ini file. The function buttons would change text and function based on the current mode. I created the icons but I think I prefer the text icon over symbols or just the big single letter.





John

It's just a generic design I came up with after the discussions of late. I'm not sure what the function keys would do at this point, but my thought was that they change with each screen. Mainly just trying to think of what is needed on each screen.

John

I got a chance to work on it this morning for a bit.

The manual page


The auto page


Still working on placement of things and trying to keep it inside of 800 x 600. Do you think that is too small?

John

Sounds like a pain to do it with dual monitors... might want to do a little research on that. So far this is just the screens ie not much underlying code yet.

What do you think of the over all look and feel?

Edit: I just tested it on the BP and it would work well on a 12" or larger monitor at 800 x 600 minimum size. Buttons are easy to touch, everything seems natural to me... but I'm a bit off from time to time.

I just looked up a smaller ELO touch screen and the 1515L seems like a good one and no power brick is needed. The native resolution on it is 1024 x 768 so I think I'll upgrade to that size and see how it lays out.

John

With a 1024 x 768 screen the buttons are at least 3/4" in any direction so plenty easy to hit once you get the screen calibrated. I was even using Axis on the touch screen... but not easy to hit the tabs.

John