Lathe Macros

Andy,

I installed it (version 3.6.7) but I still got the same error.

I think I missed something obvious and basic, no idea what tho

Strykerg

What Screen are you using ?
If it's Gscreen or Gmoccapy the INI entry:
EMBED_TAB_NAME=Cycles
is wrong.

I can give more info when I know what screen your using.

The warning about Libglade is normal.

Chris M

I am using Axis.

is there anymore info I can provide? error log:

I am not sure what the problem is that you are seeing.

I think there is a problem queueing up to confound you later, that the G-code relies on reading HAL pins directly and, that is a feature only available in Master. (which reports itself as 2.6, but isn't)

It is possible to install Master from the buildbot, it might even solve the current problem. (I have been using it for many months with no issues)

sounds complicated for my Linux knowledge.

I just wanted to give it a try it looks really neat. Your old lathe macros work fine for me, the only annoying thing is keying in the values in the spinboxes.

Switching to using the development version is just a case of following the instructions at buildbot.linuxcnc.org

You can make the spinbox a bit friendlier by swapping pyvcp_widgets.py on your system with this file here:
www.bodgesoc.org/lathe/pyvcp_widgets.py
That allows you to press "enter" to confirm a value, rather than toggling up-down on the arrows.
(I am not entirely sure where the file lives, and I am not on a LinuxCNC system at the moment. Probably /usr/bin )