Gmoccapy - A new screen for linuxcnc

Hi Norbert,
Hopefully this is the last change.
I added a toggle button to turn the THC function on / off as well as the limit indicators.




This should do for most application I think.

Hallo Marius,

please pull! The new design is available, but....

- The screen must be real large so your plasma.glade file can fit in. We should think about rearranging some stuff, because I would like that it could run on a screen with 1024 x 768.

- At start time you will get some errors on the terminal, that some labels are not available, I do not know why, as they are there and after the start the do work.

- Please see the new and changed hal pin, as I renamed them to fit better to hal standard

- I need you to write some small documentation, please add a plasma part to the wiki, as you need to explain, what are all the widgets for, as I do not understand any more, how a plasma work! I thought at the beginning it is just needed a flame on and off and a kind of height control, but it seems a lot more complicated. So without further understanding, meaning your documentation, I will not go on with this development. IMHO the codder must understand what he is doing, and I certainly do not. Please make me wise!

Norbert

Hi Norbert

Thanks a lot fore all your hard work man, it is really appreciated.
I had a look at the screen and we do have a problem with the 1024 x 768 size. I agree it must fit into that size. Let me have look and see how we can re-arrange some stuff.

I have to learn about wiki usage but I will put something up soon.

As I said before, there are two approaches for plasma THC.

1: Using Gcode to do the work and hardware and component to signal and control up and down (simple controller interface)
2: Using a more complex component but full control is with the machine and not with Gcode.

I have worked on many plasma machines and I think the best way is to control everything with the machine controller. It is a lot more work but worth it in the end.

P.S. You will have to PM me a delivery address so that I can send you a controller early in the new year.

Norbert
It I test with the screen open in window mode and the size set to 1024x768, will I see the correct result?

If so, I think we can make the Feed and Velocity windows a bit smaller as they do not feature that much with plasma. It is preferable to not adjust the feed rate of the job but to rather set it correctly in the gcode. It also messes with the corner lock as the setting is derived from the requested feed rate and not the override feed rate.

Yes, you see the right size.

Let me take a look, at feed override.
Is there a problem if we do hide the complete velocity frame?

Wiki is realy simple, as it is only writing text in an editor. I can help with formating, but you will be able to do that tol, just looking what i have done till now. Just beginn a section like the one lathe specific.

You will get an PM soon.

Norbert

Norbert
I changed some of the labels in the signals frame and it all fits.
The strange thing is that I also changed the label of the velocity frame by removing the [%] from the feed rate but when I load the screen the change does not show. Is it loaded or inherited from somewhere else?