Flexible GUI

 

JT

I really like the philosophy and progress of this project!
I've never used PyQt6 so forgive my ignorance, would it be possible to map these controls on top of an image? Ive always wanted to render up an interesting backdrop in cad and add controls on top.

Didn't get a chance to update and try the label yet as I'm working on the hal file at the moment. Couple of things I'm noticing now that I'm running some sims......

Since I added a qss, INPUT = TOUCH seems to not have an effect anymore. Pretty sure I had the touch style file browser before the qss but now it is back to the normal one.

The file browser is a little hard to navigate because it doesn't show the current directory, easy to get lost. Any chance you can add current directory at the top or something?

The flood and mist push buttons disable when a program is running. I'm used to Gmoccapy where you can still operate the mist and flood while running a program. Sometimes I forget to add coolant to the program and need to turn it on when it's running. Not quite sure why yet but as soon as the GUI disables coolant even if I stop the program I can't control it again with the hal buttons until I first turn it on with the GUI buttons.

blazini36 wrote:

Didn't get a chance to update and try the label yet as I'm working on the hal file at the moment. Couple of things I'm noticing now that I'm running some sims......

Since I added a qss, INPUT = TOUCH seems to not have an effect anymore. Pretty sure I had the touch style file browser before the qss but now it is back to the normal one.

The file browser is a little hard to navigate because it doesn't show the current directory, easy to get lost. Any chance you can add current directory at the top or something?

The flood and mist push buttons disable when a program is running. I'm used to Gmoccapy where you can still operate the mist and flood while running a program. Sometimes I forget to add coolant to the program and need to turn it on when it's running. Not quite sure why yet but as soon as the GUI disables coolant even if I stop the program I can't control it again with the hal buttons until I first turn it on with the GUI buttons.
 

The ini entry INPUT is now THEME gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flexgui/ini.html#themes

Which file browser, the keyboard or the touch screen?

Good point on the flood and mist and I see no reason to disable them at any time and that has been fixed.

JT

blazini36 wrote:

The file browser is a little hard to navigate because it doesn't show the current directory, easy to get lost. Any chance you can add current directory at the top or something?
 

Do you have an example of what you mean? I'm having a hard time visualizing that...

JT

JT wrote:

The ini entry INPUT is now THEME gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flexgui/ini.html#themes

Which file browser, the keyboard or the touch screen?

Good point on the flood and mist and I see no reason to disable them at any time and that has been fixed.

JT
 

THEME = touch overrides my qss. I get the touch file browser back be it's using whatever qss the theme uses instead of the one I specified with QSS =. Can I add the touch style file browser to my qss?

As for the file browser showing the current directory, just some bar at the top of the browser or maybe even a label that can display it above the file browser. Right now you see files in the directory that you are in....but you have no idea what directory you are in. I keep most of my NC files on a NAS so sometimes I move around a bit to get to the file. It's alot easier to navigate if you can see what directory you are currently browsing.

BTW, thanks for answering these questions. I can probably figure some of this out myself but that probably wouldn't help anyone else looking to work with Flex.