Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen

Halo Chris,

if you do a rework on that, could you please check also for translation strings, which are not needed?
In some glade files (i.e. tooledit) you just have marked every label as translatable, but why translate "1" or "G54"
Such things make the translatable files unnecessarily large.

IMHO: Also the GSCREEN MESSAGE and GSCREEN ERROR items needn't to be translated, as the are specific errors.

Norbert

Hello Chris,

Been a while,

Trying to finish up my third turning center, and was wondering in which file I would go to, to get the left side of the display to fill the window. You have probably told me, and I tried searching with no luck.

Here is what I am talking about,



Thanks

Rick

You must modify the industrial.glade file, with the GLADE editor ( or use a terminal editor is possible)

The widgets:

alignment1
active_gcode_frame
frame6

under the properties heading 'packing' look for 'expand'
change to yes (one or all of them)

now when you hide the keyboard they will expand vertically.

The file can be found either in your config file folder or (if you have pulled in the last month or so) in share/gscreen/skin/industrial
if you change the one in your config file it will never be upgraded, the one in share/ will be over written on updates.
You can copy the one in share/ to your config then when loading that config it will always use the copied one (name it the same).

Hope that helps.

Chris M

cmorley wrote:

tjamscad wrote:

cmorley wrote: Can you post the INI file.
I bet you didn't add the jog increment entry to the INI (TOUCY doesn't use it)

As for jogging - did you remember to click the on screen button 'jog' to enable jogging?

Chris M

You are correct once again. No "INCREMENTS" in the ini file.

This should be why on screen jogging didn't work too.

Hello Guys,

What is the proper format for the jog increment line in the INI file, here is mine,

INCREMENTS = 1.000, .1, .01, .001, .0001,

and I have tried numerous flavours of this and still get a fault when trying to change it.

Thanks

Rick

try:

INCREMENTS = 1.000mm 0.1mm 0.01mm 0.001mm 0.0001mm

or:

INCREMENTS = 1.000in 0.1in 0.01in 0.001in 0.0001in

But normally your one should work also.


Norbert

Chris,

I was able to get my screen redone to my liking. Now I might try and dabble with putting a picture in that same column to take a little bit of the space that was there.

Norbert,

I realized that the increments are working, the machine will jog at whatever is selected, the actual problem is, the selected increment is not displayed on the left side status area in the screen.

Thanks

Rick

Glad your figuring it out.
let me know of anything I can help with and don't forget to post a pic once in a while

Chris M

I see why the jog increments are not updating - I pushed a fix.
If you are using a custom glade file you will need to update it manually.
the labels for jogs are:

jog_increments
angular_jog_increments
jog_rate
angular_jog_rate

Chris M

I pulled that fix, now the increments work great. Thanks

But now I am back to trying to get the screen filled out again. I went into the glade file and clicked expand on all three boxes you mentioned and I keep getting a fault when trying to start up. I must have clicked/selected something else the other day when I actually got it to work. I will press on tomorrow and see if I can remember what I did.

Guess I need to start actually taking notes down on how I manage to stumble across making things work properly.

Thanks

Rick

I honestly cannot figure out what I did to get my screen filled out the other day. Here is a screen shot of the fault I get.





Any pointers/hits?

Thanks

Rick

And Happy New Year!!!!!!!!