Want to make a GUI similar to Mach3

Hi Chris, Yes and I did that screen design. It had no licence as far as I was concerned and was free to use.
Anyhow I'd like to make a Linuxcnc specific one but would like some guidance, in what the screen should or shouldnt include. (I only want to see separate jog buttons without having to tick a radio box.
I'd love for you (or anyone tell me what a good generic 4 axis machine controller should include a,d what I should concentrate the design on.

My thought was that since most buttons are momentarily pressed, that to show their state was not really necessary.
I guess for single throw buttons that could be shown with a 'LED'.
So you are saying that its possible to place an event box over the buttons and that would be transparent over the background picture?

I'm not really that good at the coding side Where do I even find the Gscreen file in order to edit it?

I'm guessing with some guidance and team contribution we can get something good out hey?

Benny

Ok here is the code I used to make that sample.
It would need to be placed in configs/sim/gscreen/gscreen_custom

I added an event box to show how that is done.

Unfortunately the background pic will not be shown in the GLADE editor
In the future I may be able to fix that..but not for awhile.

What version of linuxcnc are you using?

Chris M

How about looking at what Tormach are doing? I recently discovered the NYCCNC channel on youtube, where the guy uses Tormach machines a lot - I'd always mentally written them off as Mach3 driven until I saw the screen and realised that the path plot screen was straight out of LinuxCNC.

It turns out that somehow I'd missed the fact that Tormach are now using LinuxCNC with their own interface overlays and have named the software Pathpilot. The conversational interfaces look great and I now secretly want a Tormach 1100, but if I could add those interfaces to what I have now, then it'd save me a lot of money!

Ben

John Prentice sent this information on the EMC-Users List email list. You can get path pilot.

The PathPilot GPL source is available on DVD.

"Mail a $10 check to:

GPL Compliance Division
Tormach Inc.
1071 Uniek Drive
Waunakee, WI 53597999

Please write "Source Code for Machine Controller Software" in the memo line of your payment.""

I think the handling charge above is still correct but you might like to confirm this with info@tormach.com

John Prentice

Now that is a good tip!

Needless to say I've now (finally) applied to join the mailing list.....

Looks like you can buy the "upgrade" too, $35.00 for the manual & DVD from Tormach