Lathe Macros

Doesn't Gscreen use a widget that pops up a numeric keypad when you tap the box?

Andy, it does but I dont know if it is available or easy to include in a custom TAB. I will investigate that.
The reason I am looking at a spinbox is that some of the parameters will be adjusted while the machine is running. Things like THC volts one might want to tweak as it runs. That is easy with a spinbox and I have used that with Axis. Now with the touch screen stuff it is not so easy. If I was better versed in python it might have been easy

mariusl wrote:

Doesn't Gscreen use a widget that pops up a numeric keypad when you tap the box?

Andy, it does but I dont know if it is available or easy to include in a custom TAB. I will investigate that.

Did you get anywhere with this? I ended up writing my own for the milling machine GUI i am playing with.

The setup is in the attached files. There isn't a lot there at the moment, but the pop-up number entry works. Also a set of thread/screw data comboboxes that might be useful.

Andy
I did look at it but for some reason that I ca't remember now, I did not go there. The code for the popup is available in master but my lack of python script knowledge has again stopped me from going further. I am going to get stuck into python very soon as it seems to be an important part of getting things done in LCNC.

I think using the pyncggui popup keyboard would be simple to use for someone that knows python. Maybe you can have a look at that for yourself. I have a screen setup and ready for testing but I am busy with the plasma stuff at the moment.

trying to add this ui to my lathe but can't seem to get it to work (noob warning).

I am currently using Andy's old UI which works fine.

I tried copying all the files in my lathe's config folder and then added the following two lines in the [display] section of my ini:

EMBED_TAB_NAME=Cycles
EMBED_TAB_COMMAND=halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -u lathehandler.py -x {XID} lathemacro.ui

I obviously removed the other ui from that section. when I try to run it says:

**** GLADE VCP INFO: Not a libglade project, trying to load as a GTK builder project
**** GLADE VCP ERROR: With xml file: lathemacro.ui
Invalid tab configuration
Embeded tab command "halcmd loadusr -Wn gladevcp gladevcp -c gladevcp -x 62914716 -u lathehandler.py lathemacro.ui" exited with error: 1

debug file information:
(gladevcp:4797): libglade-WARNING **: Expected <glade-interface>. Got <interface>.

(gladevcp:4797): libglade-WARNING **: did not finish in PARSER_FINISH state
<commandline>:0: gladevcp exited without becoming ready


i'm not sure if I should be installing something before trying to run this? been quite a while since I tried adding something like this to Linuxcnc

This sounds like it might be a glade version problem.
What version of LinuxCNC are you using, and what version of Glade?

linuxcnc is 2.5.3

glade version? how do I check? do I have to manually install that? I recently reinstalled everything and just copied my old setup I didn't install glade

*edit*

oh im an idiot. im looking into the linuxcnc help files and there it is
3.1. Prerequisite: Glade installation


To view or modify Glade UI files, you need glade installed - it is not needed just to run a GladeVCP panel. If the glade command is missing, install it with the command:


$ sudo apt-get install glade

ill try it and get back. hopefully by today