Re-designing the Gmoccapy DRO

Currently there is much (unused) space between the axis letter and the value:

 

I thought the space could be used more effectively, so I moved one of the tiny sized values to the right and display the labels only at the top. 

 

And I would display the current coordinate system (G5x) fixed at this position and only toggle the display of the right part.

For more than 4 axes I would only display the main value:
 


What do you think about that new design?

 

I think the A 0.000 should align right with the numbers above Z-10,000, where the last two zeros are on top of each other, maybe the dtgs could get a slightly less bright red to distinguish them more visibly.

Not sure why A and B needs the smaller text size, but looks ok.

You are removing information though, the Abs might deserve a switch, maybe on click/tap? maybe with some kind of hint, clicking on dtg changes it to abs?

Food for thoughts, not implementation requests

 

grandixximo wrote:

Not sure why A and B needs the smaller text size, but looks ok.

Just keeping the current arrangement:
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/image/gui/i.../gmoccapy_5_axis.png

grandixximo wrote:

You are removing information though, the Abs might deserve a switch, maybe on click/tap? maybe with some kind of hint, clicking on dtg changes it to abs?

Yeah that's what I meant with "toggle the display of the right part." So don't rotate the displayed values, only switch between Abs and DTG in the right part.

tuxcnc wrote:

 

 

Yeah that's also a possibility, but the duplicated "G54" consumes too much space IMHO.

HansU wrote:

Yeah that's also a possibility, but the duplicated "G54" consumes too much space IMHO.
 

There is no way to avoid this.
If we assume that G54 needs to be displayed somewhere, then we might as well display it several times and we need to have room for G59.3 (two more characters).
What I pasted above was painted in Inkscape, in Gmoccapy there will be a different font, so it will look a little different.
I adopted the rule that everything that may be needed must be displayed, but the position in the current coordinate system should be displayed as large as possible and cannot be confused with anything else (hence the different colors).
Of course, someone may have a better idea, but this issue should not be considered in terms of what is beautiful and what is not for whom, it should only be useful and safe.

tuxcnc wrote:

HansU wrote:

Yeah that's also a possibility, but the duplicated "G54" consumes too much space IMHO.
 
There is no way to avoid this.
If we assume that G54 needs to be displayed somewhere, then we might as well display it several times and we need to have room for G59.3 (two more characters).

Why do we need it several times?
There cannot be different coordinate systems for different axes.

HansU wrote:

Because the window is wide and low.
Removing G54 from all but one line will not give us any more space to display anything.
However, moving G54 to another line requires adding a new line, which means there will be less height for the position and more width, which we already have in excess of...
I'll say it again.
A CNC machine is not a toy, it may damage something or injure the operator, so the most important information and buttons must be large, legible and easy to find and use.
Whether it will be pretty or ugly is secondary.

I deleted all the G54s. Where will you put the G54 now (important information) and why will it be better?
 

tuxcnc wrote:

I deleted all the G54s. Where will you put the G54 now (important information) and why will it be better?

On top like in my example image.
This also has the advantage that on touch off the task bar doesn't hide the X value like it currently does (in fullscreen mode).



I also talked with Norbert that we might don't display the coordinate system at all in the DRO, because it is already displayed in the G-Codes section.