Introduction: ArtSoft / Mach3 forum drove me here

cmorley wrote:

Yes, absolute and relative mean referenced from machine origin, relative is referenced from current user origin.

It's common labels on DROs that machinists might use.
It's also slightly more informative the obscure G code labels - at least untill you are used to the gcode labels.

cmorley wrote:

i would think you should switch to a toolkit that linuxcnc actually supports before spending a lot of time tweaking your code. Linuxcnc's toolkits use special widgets for many functions that makes coding much easier.
If you build a screen completely with plain widgets you will have a lot of cranky python code to add to make it work.

cmorley wrote:

Css is not supported in gtk2 - the version of GTK linuxcnc currently supports
If you wish to target the released 2.8 version GTK2 is what's used.

It's an unfortunate time to pick GTK for a new screen.
We use a very old version in linuxcnc and there are people apparently working on a GTK3 update but no idea on when that would be incorporated into linuxcnc.
At that point though GTK2 will not be supported in the development version anymore.

  def onTellitePress(self, button, *args):
    self.get_twin(button).set_inconsistent(True)

  def onTelliteRelease(self, button, *args):
    self.get_twin(button).set_inconsistent(False)
  
  def onTelliteToggle(self, button, *args):
    self.get_twin(button).set_active(not button.get_active())

  def get_twin(self, button):
    siblings = set(button.get_parent().get_children())
    return siblings.difference({button}).pop()

button.toggle:active, button.toggle:indeterminate {
background-image: url("images/toggle_overlay_down.png");
}
  button.toggle:active label, button.toggle:indeterminate label {
  margin: 2px -2px -2px 2px;
  }

grid.tellite button {
padding: 0;
}
  grid.tellite button:first-child {
  border-bottom: none;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 0;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 0;
  }
  grid.tellite button:last-child {
  border-top: none;
  border-top-right-radius: 0;
  border-top-left-radius: 0;
  }

Etaoin wrote:

robertspark wrote:

help...{linux noob}

rob@RobsCNC:~/Downloads$ python3 main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

Hmm. Looks like you don't have PyGObject installed (the language bindings between Python3 and GTK3). Try running "sudo apt install python3-gi python3-gi-cairo gir1.2-gtk-3.0" to get the dependencies. What Linux distribution are you using?

robertspark wrote:

I installed via the linuxcnc iso (Debian buster, linuxcnc 2.8), upgraded linuxcnc to master, installed mate-desktop-envionment, installed glade-gtk2 from linuxcnc repository

robertspark wrote:

I am really playing with QT as glade does not seem to be the current recommended route for newer guis I think (I dabble and I'm a noob)