Generic Probing tab

I have had a bit of a play with this, and I think I have the basics.
There are two files, an svg of button logos and a python file to display the buttons and run G-code.
There are arguments for making each button a separate GladeVCP widget. There are other ways to do this, and there are _much_ better Python programmers.

What I do like is that the button graphics are scalable. I quite like that there are only two files. (and I can't help feeling that with clever XML it could be one file).

So, put gtktest.py and probe.svg in the same folder, then start LinuxCNC and then (in a terminal) ./gtktest.py

That should pop-up a window with 4 buttons that do different things. They don't do any actual probing yet.
There are more options for the button-graphics in the svg fille.

To Do:
Put in the actual probing code.
Add the numeric inputs, checkboxes etc.
Make the graphics actually pretty.

This is so-far a proof of concept rather than a usable thing.

ssalrin wrote:

I might be able to help with graphic, if Adobe CS4 will suffice.

Well, it depends..

Photoshop won't work, as the graphics are Vector. Illustrator would be the tool, but there would almost certainly have to be some hand-editing of the SVG afterwards to force it in to the format that the python script assumes.

If you compare the probe.svg and what the same file looks like after passing through Illustrator (in a text editor) then you might see what I mean. Inkscape created a separate gradient for every arrow-fill, for example, so I deleted all but one and did a search-replace.

This may be a perspective thing. I had a sideline in computer graphics when I was at school, but all the graphics were created by BASIC plot commands. I am amazed I had the patience.
It was probably 30 lines of code to sign the picture (and rather embarassingly the interweb now thinks I wrote the game) s.uvlist.net/l/y2006/05/18345.jpg
So, hand-crafting SVG feels sensible to me, but might not to others.

ssalrin wrote:

Is there nothing simple in this brave new world I've stepped into.... I see a lot of the screen components I've looked at this week open in fireworks.

It looks like Fireworks only saves to SVG with an extension. I would expect Illustrator to be the editor of choice. I used Inkscape (then saved as plain SVG, then tweaked with a text editor). But learning to use Inkscape if you are used to Adobe might be a waste.

What is the rsvg module? I get an error trying to run it from Axis about the module missing.

JT

BigJohnT wrote:

What is the rsvg module?

Hmm, try apt-get install librsvg ?