GUI for PlasmaC - QtPlasmac

rodw wrote: 2. calculator entry. What if say you could type {20 * 50} and the formula between the brackets was parsed and pasted into the field? .

You can do that in Axis in the touch-off dialog. It's very handy.

Also in-mm and mm-in buttons.

rodw wrote: Its great to see Linuxcnc FINALLY has a decent softkey board for touch screens.

Two Issues:
1. The lower line of the bottom row of keys is cut off on my screen.

[strike]2.The greyed out background is very disconcerting.. the sudden change of contrast is not good on the eyes and I don't believe that technique should be used on a HMI as it would get very tiring all day. What do others think?[/strike]


Some crazy Ideas, maybe not just for QTPlasmac.
1. numeric keyboard that pops up when a button is pressed

2. calculator entry. What if say you could type {20 * 50} and the formula between the brackets was parsed and pasted into the field? Or {x/2}? There are any number of calulators for Python.

So I tried again in daylight and found the greyed out screen quite OK so it must just have been the ambient light.
Stretching the keyboard fixed the obscured button outlines and it saves the size and position. Very good!

So now onto the crazy ideas section! I see Andy has been giving it a push along too. We don't need the inch to mm conversions here. The archaic units have long since been eliminated from my workshop!

If anyone out there is good at creating small images and are looking for something to do it would be nice if we could get some decent images for the conversational side of things rather than the ugly ones I managed to cobble together.

The images we need are located here and are the images beginning with conv_

The smaller images display at around 54x54 and the large ones at 196x196 and I believe the supported formats are: BMP GIF JPG JPEG PNG PBM PGM PPM XBM XPM X11

Thanks, Phill.

Hi I have been following the PlasmaC GUI evolution and I really want to congratulate phillc54 and all the team for the great work,

I have installed the GUI using a 22 Inch touch screen monitor and have used it (only simulator not real machine yet) it work great.
I have some ideas that I want to share.
1) Z Axis Jog to control voltage during cut, basically use the Z axis jog buttons to override the actual voltage, while arc ok is present. I really don't know if this is too complicated to implement but it will be nice to have.
2) I was thinking in a more process oriented distribution of the controls, for instance, we remove e-stop then activate PowerOn then make a Home All after that we load a file and finally run it maybe we can have a distribution of controls that we can follow these sequence, once again it is a nice to have.
3) the buttons can be a little larger for 20-24 touch monitors.


I will continue using it and share the comments
thanks to all for the great work, finally a decent System (no only GUI) for plasma user

grijalvap wrote: 1) Z Axis Jog to control voltage during cut, basically use the Z axis jog buttons to override the actual voltage, while arc ok is present. I really don't know if this is too complicated to implement but it will be nice to have.

So you suggest getting rid of the + and - overrides and using the Z+ and Z- buttons instead.

2) I was thinking in a more process oriented distribution of the controls, for instance, we remove e-stop then activate PowerOn then make a Home All after that we load a file and finally run it maybe we can have a distribution of controls that we can follow these sequence, once again it is a nice to have.

The latest update allows some estop options by using a variable in the ini file. The default if this variable is omitted is indicator only.

3) the buttons can be a little larger for 20-24 touch monitors.

I do intend to do some work on this when it is fully functional and the documentation is complete.
Tom has also been doing a bit of customizing:
forum.linuxcnc.org/show-your-stuff/38547...ild?start=300#195962

phillc54 Wrote:So you suggest getting rid of the + and - overrides and using the Z+ and Z- buttons instead.
Correct

phillc54 wrote: The latest update allows some estop options by using a variable in the ini file.
Well I was thinkin on grouping the controls by sequence of using I mean the ones used at start up then the ones using during operation
let me think more in this idea.

phill54 wrote: I do intend to do some work on this when it is fully functional and the documentation is complete.
Tom has also been doing a bit of customizing

very nice!!!