Another GUI project underway

Hello all,

I was fortunate enough to meet and befriend a few very talented and patient fellow board and IRC members who were kind enough to help me start to learn a little bit about GUI's and coding.. (a very little bit to date admittedly). They are Hazzy and TurBoss. We have been tinkering on a screen design and some probing routines, and figured we would throw then out into the world and get some feedback. The start was to use a similar approach as pathpilot as that seemed like a popular interface often referred to by many people. But as we got into it we made a few minor changes in the layout. Below is a rough example, nothing final, still a working rough draft done in QTDesigner and built on top of one of cmorleys earlier designs. Currently all buttons and sliders are in stock form but we hope to dress some things up a little nicer to bring out some more personality. We are aiming for a clean streamlined interface. So please let us know your constructive criticism. Look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas, things you like, things you don't. Everyone's tastes are different, so we understand it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, just please keep it cordial and polite.

Thanks!

Chris (and thanks to the hard work of Hazzy, TurBoss and Cmorley for making this possible so far!)

My 0.02c...
This looks very similar to the Blender style GUI BrendaEM is doing...
forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/34572-a-wides...yle-interface#110805

When did the trend to dark grey CNC controller screens catch on? I don't like the arcade game garish colours of many Mach 3 screen, and think Gmoccapy could be tuned done a little on some of the clip art and colours, but never got the trend to dark grey visuals either.

I think Gmoccapy is nearly perfect with the soft keys and the way Norbert implemented shuttling through ABS/REL/DTG rather than triplicating this information on screen.

I really like the green/white background for the program/MDI overview they are proposing for the Blender GUI, as that makes it more readable. And the tool library graphics are real eye candy. Hope that gets ported to GmoccaPy.
forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/34572-a-wides...ace?start=310#115103

With the move to bigger screens, there is a trend to information overkill on some GUI proposals.
Mark

Chris:
It's a very nice take on tormach's screen.
Are you using Kurt's pyqtvcp branch or my qtvcp branch?
Keep up the good work!

Mark:
The color of the screens are pretty easy to change anyways.

I like it, nice & clean, seems less cluttered.

Nice job.

Thank you for posting this Lcvette!

cmorley, yes, that is done in my QtPyVCP branch, meaning it does not have any functionality, lol

Cheers,
Kurt (aka hazzy)

Nice!.

Though I always find the scrollbar handles very small on a touch screen. Can there be a sweeping action to scroll?

Hakan, Qt does support gestures, so it should be possible to do things like make text views scroll by sweeping, backplot zoom by pinching etc. Also, the OR sliders will get bigger handles, eventually ...

Cheers,
Kurt

tommylight wrote:

If i remember correctly, i read somewhere that Tormach will not let Linuxcnc users use their graphics and wizards.

None of Tormachs graphics or wizards will be used. The font is the same but this is an open font and I think it should be ok to use as I can't imagine it being under tormach control. I have made all new graphics for the probing screens as well as worked with Hazzy and TurBoss to develop probing routines different from Tormachs (which seem a bit slow) by comparison. Conversational is possible I suppose, I'm happy to do graphics for it, but some help on the code for that would be helpful!