Flexible GUI

That's pretty cool!

JT

That's awesome!

How did you do the plotter?

JT

It is still just Gremlin but I enabled multisampling and added the arrows to make it look a bit fancier.
The file I've attached is qt5_graphics.py with just enough updated to make it work.
Put it where python can find it, create a QWidget or whatever in designer and promote it

I've made a lot of improvements to Flex GUI in the last few weeks and with some help you can create a button, checkbutton, checkbox or radio button that controls a hal out pin. I've got almost all status labels that return a float have the precision set to 3 for metric and 4 for inch and if you specify the precision in a Dynamic Property then Flex uses that instead of the default.



JT

Flex GUI is up to version 0.8.0 and includes MDI buttons now.

Flex GUI is for folks that want just what they want in a GUI, no more no less.



JT

@JT,

In a few post earlyer you mentioned:
Qt Creator is for C++ and Qt Designer is for python.

The qt designer creates .ui files that can be used with qt creator.

The link is broken:
gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flex/index.html
Made a new link for you:
gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/flexgui/index.html
github link

I want to say, i really like your work. A few years ago when i started linuxcnc,
i followed your gtk course gnipsel.com/glade/index.html .

I think you can also do widget overlay in the gremlin screen these days to show dro's.






 

I updated the links in the first posts.

Now if I can figure out how to code a plotter Flex GUI will be complete.

JT

@JT,

Do you want to code a new plotter or what are your ingredients?

Grotius wrote:

@JT,

Do you want to code a new plotter or what are your ingredients?
 

I need to get a plotter to work with PyQt6. I would like to use OpenGL with the QOpenGLWidget. If possible use LinuxCNC libraries to parse the G code. How Flex GUI works is if a widget is found then the code is attached to it so in the case of a plotter if a container with an object name of plot_widget is found then the plotter is inserted into the plot_widget container. Any help is much appreciated.

JT