qtvcp issues

auto-mation-assist wrote: Chris,

I have been working on getting some things copied to the computer that actually controls my machine.
I commented out all the hal pins that are not available yet so that it would load. Now working on eliminating some minor errors.
A file is attached with the errors I need to resolve. It is finding the macros now.

In my original post I had listed the qtvcp_plugin.py file as not compiling by error. I later removed it from my post.
I have attached it just in case and the versa_probe_plugin.py which does not compile. I can also try to figure why that is.

I don't see the file qtvcp_plugin.py here?

In PyQt the pressed, clicked, and released only fire one time. pressed fires when down and clicked and released fire when the button is released. Not sure what is passing the pressed to your method.

JT

I think I got it fixed - pushed.

If the button is checkable, it connects a 'toggled' signal.
If it's a momentary button, it connects to 'pressed' and 'released' signals.

The code was not doing this properly
Chris M

I'm not familiar with versa probe.
I see it uses HAL pins for setting data in the probe routines.
I'm not sure why that way was chosen.
I eliminated that on my port, but then thought I should ask about that.

Chris M

Can I make a suggestion for the probe screen?

I big red LED which shows the current probe-state. I like to manually test my probe prior to running an automatic probe routine, in case something has gone wrong such that the probe will drive all the way through the part...

I was thinking that too Andy

Chris

It is always nice to be able to verify that a probe is working properly before using it. So a test led is a good idea. All the probes that I have built for my self have such an led built in which has proved to be very useful.

Chris,

I have verified that you last fix cured the problem I was seeing with the state of the hal pins.

In relation to hal pins there will be time when a user like myself will want to add custom functions that are not needed by everyone and thus may need to be able to generate hal pins in a handler. Can you provide some input on the best way to do that and give a sample of the required code?

I have also been trying to resolve to problem with your work on the versa-probe widget not showing up for me. There are three files that are never called and not compiling.

/qtvcp/plugins/qtvcp_plugin.py
/qtvcp/plugins/versa_probe_plugin.py
/qtvcp/widgets/versa_probe.py

I have manually compiled all three and each is able to be compiled without errors. It seems to me that the last item in the list within qtvcp_plugin.py that worked correctly was for the macro widget. Thus in order for that to add macro widget it would have been able to run the /qtvcp/plugins/qtvcp_plugin.py file in order for that to happen. I recall that one of the files may have had /usr/bin/env python3 on its top entry.

I'm not sure yet what is supposed to wake up the /qtvcp/plugins/qtvcp_plugin.py file and execute it but will try to find some text in some file that relates to that. I will need to copy the qt5vcp_py2 folder to one of my windows based computers to use a search routine that may work for such a search.

Qtvcp_plugin is actually the first file to be called.
There should be a link to it from...
Usr/....../designer/....plugin/python plug in.

Sorry I'm at work so can,t be specific.

There is a README in
Lib/qtvcp/designer I think that explains things better.

Chris