LinuxCNC Features - a kind of NGCGUI

Hi fixer,

fixer wrote: ok, thanks for the updates,
regarding slots, i am not sure but i belive that the problem was that, as you say, the length is between centers, and i was wrongly expecting value between arcs...

I added a combo where users specify if length entered is "overall" or "effective"

fixer wrote: I would also like to propose a small change in GUI: Can you make the Add feature window to not be additional window, but would show the menu in the "value" part of the main window? After you would choose feature to add it would disapear and normaly show values as before. I am using touchscreen and it is not convenient to have additional windows on top of main.

Not very difficult. I added the option to my TODO list, but not sure it will be in the next update.

fixer wrote: And with touchscreen, taping on a feature or folder doesnt open it, it only selects and i have to press enter to open/add it. Can you do an option for adding a feature with single/double click? User with mouse will propably want double click.

It needs only a single click now.

fixer wrote: A small popup numerical keyboard wich would show when selecting a value is propably too much to ask, a?

Also added in my TODO list.

fixer wrote: I am learning python, but curently i am not good enought to make that kind of changes in your program...

I am using Eclipse with PyDev plug-in. I think it is used for gmoccapy development. I never saw a line of Python code before a year ago. I think it is pretty easy to program though I always search for references and examples which are quite abundant. I could not find anything to help for drag and drop yet.

fixer wrote: and you can hide the shortcuts for features, as i personaly never use them, and make upper icons bigger, again because of touchscreen being inacurrate...

You can edit features.py at line 66 and change to ICON_SIZE = 40. A quick fix less than perfect.

Regards
Fern

FernV wrote:

fixer wrote: A small popup numerical keyboard wich would show when selecting a value is propably too much to ask, a?

Also added in my TODO list.

There is a pre-existing pop up keyboard, I use it on my screens.
git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a...67dd368594e90eb94ff2

Thanks Andy,

I will check how I can use it

Regards
Fern

There is a usage example in hobbing.py in the zip file here: wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Hobbing

Hi fixer,

Well done, I will include this D-Sub in new version

Fern

a screenshot preview of a work in progress - should be done in a week. Some small changes in features.py, and modified engrave-lines from here :http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple_LinuxCNC_G-Code_Generators#Text_Engraving_Software