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.