GUI Modification Plasma

Hello

Well it's off to 3 days of selling at a holiday craft fair on another island for the next 4 days so Ill have some time away from this.

Things were doing going well until I tried to add a feed override control to one of the tabs will the plasma.glade file and plasma.py file. Now I get a funny screen, it looks like the plasma.glade file doesn't load at all, see screen shot. Other things I noticed;
1. The other tab expands to take the space of the plasma.glade tab.
2. The plasma.py file doesn't run correctly, no plasma.pyc file or plasma.var file created.

John

Ultimately I want control and display of persistent variables in more than one tab from any tab they are visible in, I am sure this is not a trivial matter.

That is trivial, just handle only one and connect that hal pin to the slave displays!

I still can't find the SpeedControl widget when using the Glade editor, is it possible to add it editing the Glade file with a text editor? The best solution is if someone can point me to instructions for adding it. I am using Glade 3.8.5 and think that I have most of the other HAL widgets.

It is not included in the normal releases, but only in master branch.
You need the files:
speedcontrol.py
widget_gladevcp_speedcontrol.png
hal_python.xml
hal_pythonplugin.py
from master.

Just copy them to your catalog, usually in
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gladevcp
and
/usr/share/pyshared/gladevcp

Just copy them to both directories.

gladevcp -c switch

the switch needs an argument, have you added it?

Norbert

Please start your config from a terminal. You will be able to see the output / error that prevent the tab to load.

Norbert

Norbert

Thank you, I didn't know about starting from the terminal. This will save me a lot of head scratching when things don't work.

John

Norbert

Well I thought I was on my way down a directed path.. Please find attached a screen capture from the terminal when I start Linuxcnc. There appear to be a number of errors but the messages don't make much sense to me.

John

Hallo John,

Very clear:-)

Just correct that!

It is a typical python error, please use only spaces, mot tabs to ident!

Norbert

Norbert

Thank you.

"
That is trivial, just handle only one and connect that hal pin to the slave displays!

net sync_hal hal_slave_pin1 <= hal_slave_pin2 <= hal_slave_pin3 <= source_hal_pin
"
Ok this very similar to what I did to get the arc voltage to display in both tabs. I assume that to do this for other values I will need to change the GTK label widgets to HAL label widgets? Or is there some way to access the GTK widgets from the HAL?

John

Hallo John,

the best solution would be to replace the normal labels with hal labels.
If you do not want to do that, you would need to use python code and include a hal pin change event to react to changes and update the labels.

Does include a gtk adjustment and emits a signal if the value change. Your code must have a function
Same can be done with hal pin

Do you know this doku / tutorial?
Cutom GUI Tutorial
extending linuxcnc

Norbert

Hello

I am figuring out more about using Glade and Python to work on button in my custom tabs. I am still missing a vital part in my understanding of how everything connects together. What I want to do is have controls in two tabs that modify the same HAL pin and display the correct value as a label in each tab. I looked at trying to use HAL pins but quickly got tangled up in the whole direction issue with them. I am sure now that Python is the correct way to go for this. So what I want to do is:

1. Have two separate tabs, one as a tab over the preview and one as a replacement for the spindle speed-coolant part of the main screen. I presently have this implemented by hacking the Norbert's plasma edition of Gmoccapy. Each section is stand alone and works.
2. I want to have some of the controls common to both tabs.
3. I want to have the variables for both tabs, both common and unique saved at shutdown and restored on starting. I now have this working with the hacked plasma screen files as unique variables for each tab only.

What I have tried to do. Leaving the Glade files for each tab alone I have tried modify the Python code so that a button push in one tab modifies the value in both tabs. In the case I experimented with I did this:
1. I added this statement at the top of the Python file so I could get to the variables and widgets contained in the other file.While some things seemed to work the statements that actually modified the variables always caused errors.The error works back to a problem with "builder" as reported when LCNC is started from the terminal.
I have this line with the rest of the connections and it causes the same problem:
I am sure that this is a problem with variable visibility between Python files but I don't know how to do equal of including a header file in the Python code.

Any tips or tuts on doing this will be helpful. I have Googled both Python and Glade references and have quickly descended in to version hell with no examples of the exact thing I want to do.

John