Screen shots of gui designs

In this sample screen I use dialogs a lot.
I could probably hide the graphics and dro and intergrate the dialogs screen there.
If I did that the darkening overlay would not be very useful - though I may be able to get it to darken every thing but the window.
The chips image in the overlay may be a bit cheesy - just trying different things.

Chris M

Video shows process of building a custom screen.
Obviously not pretty or very useful but shows the process.

uses pyqt5 with python2 and the graphics widget uses native pyqt.

Now I need someone to build a really good and pretty screen...

Chris M

Chris, great work! I can't wait to get back from vacation so I can check it out and see about making a full UI.

-Kurt

Sorry to be a PITA. I managed to download (clone) qtvcp_py2 and build and install it, but now when I run it like so:

$ linuxcnc qtdefault.ini
LINUXCNC - 2.8.0~pre1
Machine configuration directory is '/home/jim/linuxcnc/configs/sim.qtscreen'
Machine configuration file is 'qtdefault.ini'
Starting LinuxCNC...
emc/iotask/ioControl.cc 768: can't load tool table.
Found file(lib): /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/core_sim.hal
Note: Using POSIX realtime
Found file(lib): /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/sim_spindle_encoder.hal
Found file(lib): /usr/share/linuxcnc/hallib/simulated_home.hal
Found file(REL): ./check_constraints.hal
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qtscreen", line 8, in <module>
from qtvcp.core import Status
ImportError: No module named qtvcp.core
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...

At github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/770a0f...339/lib/python/qtvcp there is no clone or download button, so how do I get the qtvcp module and where does it go when I get it?

OK I got that resolved, but now it's:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qtscreen", line 23, in <module>
from qtvcp import qt_makepins, qt_makegui
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/qtvcp/qt_makepins.py", line 24, in <module>
from qtvcp.qt_glib import QComponent
ImportError: No module named qt_glib
Shutting down and cleaning up LinuxCNC...

I resolved the first issue by creating a symlink to the linuxcnc-qt5vcp_py2 directory, but this time, there really is no module named qt_glib.

You probably should be building LCNC from source to use the development branches. It sounds like you might not be doing that. I can walk you thru that if needed. I am going to checkout the qt5vcp_py2 branch in a bit here myself.

EDIT:

At github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/tree/770a0f...339/lib/python/qtvcp there is no clone or download button, so how do I get the qtvcp module and where does it go when I get it?

You need to have git installed and configured. Then

That will give you a directory with the qt5vcp_py2 branch, than build that as a RIP. Follow the directions here: www.wiki.eusurplus.com/index.php?title=LinuxCNC_Run_In_Place

Don't hesitate to ask if you still are having trouble.