Gmoccapy - A new screen for linuxcnc

I did lately thing very useful for me, I think you may also like.
This is a button switching two independent sliders of the manual feedrate.



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Polish for gmoccapy.
The translation is far from perfect, but better than none.

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You can edit gmoccapy.po by poedit in /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES folder, or copy gmoccapy.po as pl.po to linuxcnc-dev/src/po/gmoccapy folder and compile linuxcnc.

Hallo Adam,

I do like the icon, are they open source?
Who has the copyright?

I will include polish traanslation in the official repo.
I will have to think about the doble slider

All you out there using gmoccapy, what do you think?

Norbert

All you out there using gmoccapy, what do you think?

Yes please!

With 18000mm/min maximum and a touchscreen it is pretty hard to select a moderate feed for 'manual milling'. A low/high speed toggle button and separate set of sliders would be nice.

newbynobi wrote:

I do like the icon, are they open source?
Who has the copyright?

Icons are mine, but I used a fragment of someone else's work (not icon).
Will a good idea, to somebody redraw them a little.
Besides, the quality is not the best.

As for the gmoccapy, specifically I had no choice.
For milling machines, I was using axis and satisfy my needs.
But to the lathe, axis is useless, because I can not be operated with a mouse on my knee.
I needed another interface and gmoccapy seemed what I need.
I bought a touch screen, unfortunately I have a few problems, but overall it was a good decision.
Look at the images in my post above.
Button on the slider is so small that it is difficult to target it by finger.
My lathe has a maximum feed rate of 4500 mm/min, and sometimes need to go manually few mm/min, for example, when I need cut off a tube with thin wall.
It has no sense to write program for this operation, manually will faster and safely.
That's why two sliders came into my head.
Now I have a manual equivalent of G0 and G1.
I think it is worth to enter it into gmoccapy.

When I touch preview area, the image runs away, but I dont know is it bug or my monitor is bad supported.
But of course touchscreen has no middle and right buttons, and in my opinion it is need to add some buttons for move and zoom, and prevent actions of touch in preview.

CSS in Gmoccapy does not function correctly from MDI

What I found is, if you try to invoke G96D800S450M3, from MDI, it starts at 800 and stays there, at the cap speed, regardless of where the X axis is at, if and when you go back to MDI, and enter g92x.....z....., ( whatever the DRO says for its current position) then it will automatically kick the spindle down to whatever RPM it should be at for the given diameter is, it is sitting at, then speed up and slow down accordingly.

Apparently it is not looking at, or taking into account its position, to set it at the correct speed. So you cannot start in CSS from MDI to make a manual cut, or run from line with the spindle started correctly for the cut.

I verified this using the Axis GUI, and in Axis the machine will start off at the correct rpm for the given size in MDI, and go up and down accordingly.

I submitted a bug report for this.

Let me know if I can be of any help in troubleshooting Norbert.

Thanks

Rick

tuxcnc wrote:

newbynobi wrote:

I do like the icon, are they open source?
Who has the copyright?

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I bought a touch screen, unfortunately I have a few problems, but overall it was a good decision.
Look at the images in my post above.
Button on the slider is so small that it is difficult to target it by finger.
My lathe has a maximum feed rate of 4500 mm/min, and sometimes need to go manually few mm/min, for example, when I need cut off a tube with thin wall.

The slider size/style can be changed with different GTK themes.
I'm not sure if Gmoccapy still has a theme changer exposed though... otherwise one has to change the whole desktop...ewww
I have a couple modified themes for gscreen that have a bigger slider.
It would probably pay to have someone build a specific one for Gmoccapy

Chris M

If you interested here is a sample:
it must be uncompressed and copied to /usr/share/themes

it was bigger sliders (probably too big) and spinboxes
and IMHO a nicer color scheme.

If anyone wants to know how to adjust the slider size I will post instruction

Chris M

I drew new icons, publish it as GPL.
gmoccapy_tuxcnc_01.tar.bz2

@tuxcnc,

let me see how to find time to check and may be implement that.

@Rick,

strange, as I only submit the commands to linuxcnc, I will check on that ASAP

@Chris,
yes, gmoccapy does support Themes, so it should be possible to include your theme.
I was thinking quiete often about an "gmoccapy-slider", but at the moment I am very short on time


So to all, let the show go on, but at the moment we are moving slow.

Norbert