Gmoccapy - A new screen for linuxcnc

As the strange number matter did occure several times and is not caused by gmoccapy,
I made a new part in the WIKI page, named "Known problems"

See gmoccapy known problems

I would appreciate much, if you guys just add other probelms you noticed.

Norbert

Norbert, I just run gmoccapy for the first time and I'm delighted! Thank you

I'm going to use for a lathe I'm retrofitting, with the touchscreen LCD.
Just a couple of hardware buttons and MPG, jog selector and feed/spindle knobs... probably all that on the remote pendant with 7i73. Makes the panel very simple.

But I found that the onscreen keyboard won't appear (hybrid iso, LCNC 2.6.3). What could be wrong?

install this keyboard
by typing from a terminal sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard
and make sure your install is up to date

@PKM

unfortunately DEBIAN WHEESY does not have a pakage for the virtual keyboard onboard.

So I changed the code to work also with matchbox-keyboard wich can be installed using

sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard

If non of both is found, I disable the on screen keyboard and all related buttons.
By the way, I am using a hardware keyboard most of the time.

I do know matchbox-keyboard is ugly and has less options than onboard, but till we find someoen to build the onboard pakage for Wheesy, we will have to live with the solution.

If you want to change the layout of the matchbox-keyboard, you will have to make a hidden directory

.matchbox-keyboard

in your home directory and kopy one of the xml layout examples from usr/share/matchbox-keyboard and rename that one to keyboard.xml. Than you can edit it. This file will be loaded by default.

Here are the latest changes to gmoccapy, please take care you are using 1.2.2

ver. 1.2.2
- changed the way the window size and position is
handled, as before the default values did appear
several times in the code
- If no virtual keyboard could be initialized, we
disable now the corresponding part on the settings
page and the related button. Check will be done
for <onboard> and <matchbox-keyboard>
- starting gmoccapy did throw an error to the terminal
that a widget could not get default. Finally I found
the reason, the glade file did contain a property
"has_default" and that is not allowed by builder.

ver. 1.2.1
- due to the behavior of XFCE of the new hybrid.iso I
had to change the width settings of several button
to stretch them to fit some text and images
- The same reason forced to set new default startposition
of the main window and the notification messages.

ver. 1.2.0
- changed GetIniInfo to return also user message setups
- notification now supports pango markup in the messages
- added hal user messages similar to gsreeen to gmoccapy
see gmoccapy_messages.ini for usage information
- updated the translation files for German and Spanish

The WIKI is up to date, except matchbox-keyboard.

Norbert

Thank you

I installed the matchbox-keyboard

I updated LCNC to 2.6.3 a few days back. How do I update gmoccapy to the latest version? Wiki only covers updating run-in-place version.

so long as you keep linuxcnc up to date gmoccapy will follow , abiet probably 24hrs or so later