How hard is it to build a completely new standalone GUI?

added <show pin> at the last line,
it behaved same as before, not launching any new windowor terminal
so I guess it is not calling ./postgui.hal. great discovery... damn it..
I am gonna try to change the name to my_postgui.hal and will put in together where original postgui.hal is located

it is very apparent that it doesn't call my_postgui.hal
(neither my_postgui.hal or ./my_postgui.hal)
Tried to change it to HALFILE = but then lots of error not finding hal pins.
So this should be in POSTGUI_HALFILE but it refused to load this file. hmm..
world of mystery..

Oh wait I forgot!!

postgui is only called from the GUI not from linuxcnc.

I have a solution for you. - lets run your glade file under Gscreen to fix this problem...

renameit as tester.glade and save it in sim/gscreen/gscreen_custom/ folder. Now launch LinuxCNC and click to sim/gscreen/gscreen_custom/tester and start it.

confirm that the screen loads and i will check what to do next. by the way are you using linuxcnc master or 2.7?

Chris M

master!!! latest patch to yesterday!
almost everyday there is a new patch, idk what that means, just trying!!
Im following your order right now sir !

okay, launched lcnc picker, made a copy of gscreen-tester, copied all my files in that folder too, now picker shows my_gui together with gscreen in selection window, it launched with no error, led won't work though yet

ok great.
now in the tester.ini file look for:

POSTGUI_HALFILE = gaxis_postgui.hal

change it to:
POSTGUI_HALFILE = tester_postgui.hal

then add a text file to the folder called tester.hal
in that file add the commands to connect the pins

Chris m

sorry don't name the new file tester,hal

tester_postgui.hal

I am curious what to see from this procedure.

- .INI was modified to tester_postgui.hal
- renamed my glade file as tester.glade

and lots of error, mostly handler not found + hal_led_power pin does not exist.

It loads with original hal file, but not with modified postgui hal file.

I have very little clue what is going on here...

can you post the actual error message?

Are you saying the tester_postgui.hal file is being called but errors?

What should happen is you should see your gui and the LED should work

ah... I think I just found something..
So this command is available only with either TOUCHY or AXISGUI???
This explains a lot... but then ... how come gmoccapy could include this without using axisgui? I am crying T.T

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linuxcnc.org/docs/2.6/html/config/ini_co...ml#sub:HALUI-section

2.7. [HAL] section
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POSTGUI_HALFILE = example2.hal - (Only with the TOUCHY and AXIS GUI) Execute example2.hal after the GUI has created its HAL pins. See section pyVCP with Axis Section for more information.