MonoKrom - QtPyVCP GUI for PlasmaC and Mill

Looking great, now if i could only find one of my very old orange/black monitors!

pinder wrote: How about this?
@rodw. I have made the tile bar with material info.

Looks great, could there be a button beside the cut options that when pressed changed the line to display the name of the materials entry? Some of us without the ability to set the plasma cutter up via RS485 might have something like "2mm mild steel, 5.2 bar, 40 amps" for the name. I thought cycling through the data would save screen space.

Also when G54 offsets are displayed, could there be a button that zeroes X & Y and sets the G54 offset? I saw a home button there but maybe thats not the right icon.

Also, that zero button might need a configuration option so that it also zeros to a laser pointer position before setting the offset. I find that pretty important

rodw wrote: Looks great, could there be a button beside the cut options that when pressed changed the line to display the name of the materials entry? Some of us without the ability to set the plasma cutter up via RS485 might have something like "2mm mild steel, 5.2 bar, 40 amps" for the name. I thought cycling through the data would save screen space.

I was not able to get this . can you clarify this?

rodw wrote: Also when G54 offsets are displayed, could there be a button that zeroes X & Y and sets the G54 offset? I saw a home button there but maybe thats not the right icon.

Yeah, I got you. What I can do is in G53, It should show Homing icon, But in work offsets, this should be limited to zeroing x and y only.
I will post asap.

rodw wrote: Also, that zero button might need a configuration option so that it also zeros to a laser pointer position before setting the offset. I find that pretty important

I dont have laser at offset. But still I can see what i can do.

Can you please post the names and sizes of the fonts you are using? I was not able to extract that info from the SVG.

pinder wrote: How about this?
@rodw. I have made the tile bar with material info.

ANOTHER OPTION

@phillc54 I have added the Reverse run( when paused) as you asked, i can surely rename to cut-recovery.

I would suggest an option for just using material name only on the main display and keeping the other settings on a separate tab. The issue I see with these options in my own case is I have quite long and descriptive material names and there isn't room to see the full name there. For example here is one of mine: "Stainless Steel - EDGE START - 45 A - 5/8 IN". I've made mine descriptive so I can quickly identify the correct material, what those mystery settings actually are are from my manual and don't compute between my ears anyway! Being able to just quickly see that the correct material is selected when a program is loaded is all I'd personally be concerned about at that moment. If I needed to deviate from the manual's recommended settings I would be poking around a settings tab anyway. Just my 2 cents.

How about a combination of your two options? A title bar that has the material name, then the individual settings on separate lines in the corner?

@rodw. I have replaced home icon with zero in work offset.