Gmoccapy - A new screen for linuxcnc

Correct. This is a Triview 15" touchscreen at 1024x768. The Wheezy install is stock except but I bumped down the default font from 11 to 10 point and it looks better. The clipped lines are fixed.

I pushed the test button to create those messages for the screenshot but they appear the same way on other errors. At this point, I can live with it. I'll try the other keyboard alternatives though.

Thanks everyone.

In regards to the error messages, how do you configure your own messages? When running Gscreen, I was able to configure 20 or so error messages in the INI file, that would pop up in a dialog box center screen and depending on the type of message I could stop motion, estop the machine, etc but when I switched to gmoccapy I don't see any way to configure these. It is very handy to have these, and operators got used to them,

Thanks

Rick

sliptonic wrote: At this point, I can live with it.

Maybe I can't. I'm testing more thoroughly now and getting strange behavior related to tool change. When I switch to the tool table, select a tool and click the button to change to the selected tool (not the M61 button) it returns to manual mode with all the jog and mode buttons greyed out. Clicking the machine off and on returns control. I never get the dialog box to change the tool.

If I run a program, it just hangs at a line like T3 M06 G43. Again, no dialog.

Thoughts?

sliptonic wrote: If I run a program, it just hangs at a line like T3 M06 G43. Again, no dialog.

Thoughts?

Aren't you missing something on that line?

Zahnrad Kopf wrote:

sliptonic wrote: If I run a program, it just hangs at a line like T3 M06 G43. Again, no dialog.

Thoughts?

Aren't you missing something on that line?

No, that's fine. G43 defaults to the current tool.

My guess is that the system is waiting for the tool change. How is your tool-changer set up? It may be that you have none at all (not even the manual toolchange routine configured)

Sorry. I should have been more clear on that point. This is manual tool change.

Per the gmoccapy wiki I have these three lines in the gmoccapy_postgui.hal file

net tool-change gmoccapy.toolchange-change <= iocontrol.0.tool-change
net tool-changed gmoccapy.toolchange-changed <= iocontrol.0.tool-changed
net tool-prep-number gmoccapy.toolchange-number <= iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number