Flexible GUI

Thanks JT. Maybe it is because I'm doing it right now in a virtual machine. i've been shopping for a touchscreen to buy and will accelerate my choice so that we can put this to bed. I'll let you know what I find.

Thanks again for all the work you have put into this, and also for the youtube video instruction on how to do things. It is fantastic!!!

John

Thanks John! I'll try!

John hi! After I transferred everything to *.qss. Everything worked! The only inconvenience is that the styles are not visible in QT Designer. Until you launch .ui via LCNC

Hi. 1) How did you started your Flexible GUI? Just modifying the AXIS.GUI (don't know where it is), or creating a new one? And 2) how do you compile it then with linuxcnc? Thanks a lot.

I got my touchscreen monitor delivered yesterday and just wanted to confirm that the issue I was having with touchscreen button not working right was a consequence of using Flex GUI in a virtual machine on windows. The Flex GUI that I made works perfectly on a real machine with touchscreen. For the real machine I am using a RPi 4b and a generic 10" touchscreen monitor.

For anyone else designing their GUI this way, I am using VirtualBox on a Windows 10 machine. The virtual Machine has LinuxCNC 2.9.4 installed from the live iso download. Here are the couple quirks I have found running it in the virtual machine. I want to stress that these issues don't exist once the .ui file is put on my RPi machine.

1. touchscreen buttons don't respond as expected in virtual machine
2. The machine will unexpectedly go to "Power Off" as soon as a motion command (Jog, MDI, or in a program) completes. Doesn't do it every time, but pretty often. Again, only in the virtual machine.
   
   I also want to again give thanks for this wonderful tool and to give a peek at what I am working on. I have a 3 axis benchtop mill (RF-45 size) that I converted to CNC a few years ago. I did this as a hobby and use the machine for my hobbies. It has been run with many things including LinuxCNC on an old tower PC with ancient monitor, keyboard and mouse, with GRBL on an Arduino hooked to a Netbook with my own Visual Basic interface, and I tried one of those standalone controllers, but sent it back because it was junk. I finally decided to just do it better and got a RPi 4b, installed LinuxCNC and have been working on an interface that for most of the way I use the mill can be done without ever touching a keyboard. I'll still have a small wireless keyboard with trackpad available if needed though. This is the interface I'm working on and I think it will suit me. I have the UI sized to perfectly fit the display that I bought to use as much space as possible. Thanks again for the very useful tool.
   
   John B
   
    
   

noqui wrote:

Hi. 1) How did you started your Flexible GUI? Just modifying the AXIS.GUI (don't know where it is), or creating a new one? And 2) how do you compile it then with linuxcnc? Thanks a lot.
 

You can start with a blank slate or start with one of the examples. You don't have to compile anything.
The documents are at gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flexgui/index.html
The videos are at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzYeNVt90...AsRGVDCtpW9_7ZXiSTak

JT