qtvcp issues

What does position,angular and linear modes change?

They really do not change anything but instead provide a way to access arrays of buttons that can be set up to handle common movement tasks and each having its own jog rate speed controls. To allow for these three small panels were designed into the 1xMill gui to handle these features.

The three panels are the upper sub panels of the main jogging panel and called up by the Position, Linear and Angular buttons:

Position:
Buttons and slow/fast rate control for common multi axis positioning. Provides a way to move to 8 common positions which a user will be able to define. More can be added at the expense of requiring a reduction in button size and thus a reduction in its available label space.

Linear:
Buttons for linear axis jog step size selection and associated jog rate controls. Currently 16 step sizes can be set up.

Angular:
Buttons - Similar to the position selector buttons but meant to be used for movements that in degrees like for a rotary axis.

The usefulness of these features depends on how a user operates a milling machine but the features are there and I suspect that they will come in handy based on my own experience. Since they are in close proximity to the main jogging buttons hand and arm movement is minimized to use them.

I forgot to mention that the OnBoard keyboard does not shut down when the gui is closed. With all my testing of trying to get the dialogs in the right places I had 15 OnBoard icons on the bottom of my screen.

So far no luck with getting the dialogs to show up in the desired places. I attached the preferences file. The time stamp indicates it does not get written to. I renamed the file.

Position mode - now I understand!

Did you try Onboard to see if it actually works on an entry?
You can try matchbox-keyboard too.

I looked at the preference file and even if it was using it they would go where they should. What distribution and window manager are you using? probably Debian I'd guess. The window manager has alot of control over where things go - it may be screwing things up...I use Mint - but i'll see if I have a Debian version to test on.

Did I mention I really like your screen - you have packed a lot in there!

Chris M

I tried it with Debian - wheezy I think and xfce desktop - Dialogs worked fine.
To help further I think you are going to need to create a branch with a sample config that I can download and test.

Chris M

I still need to figure out how to link the keyboard to the MDI text input area. I'm using Mint 18.3 but I know that I could position the the gui screen before but now its always in the center and wont move to 0x0 any more.

I’m having difficulty with git hub. I think that perhaps it tries to but the files into linuxcnc proper and not the qtvcp branch. It gives a denied and 403 error. I used this command to get the branch:
git clone -b qt5vcp_py2 github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc.git qt5vcp_py2

I have gitk and git gui installed and working on resolving the git problem.

Ok I don't use my github much (I use linuxcnc's) but I did some test work to see if I could (I am no git/github master)

add my repo to my computer:
in my current git project issue:

git remote add MY_REMOTE_NICKNAME GIT_HUB_URL_OF_PROJECT

if that worked, this should show the new remote in the list:
git remote

ok checkout a branch now:
git checkout -b MY_REMOTE_NICKNAME/BRANCH

The pull the changes
git pull MY_REMOTE_NICKNAME

Now see if we have what we think. This should show the remote and branch:
gitk

All good? yes -ok free to edit and commit now.

ready to push the work - lets check where it's going:
git push MY_REMOTE_NICKNAME --dry-run

ALL Good? then lets push for real:
git push MY_REMOTE_NICKNAME


so some real commands I used:

git remote add morleyhub git@github.com:c-morley/Linuxcnc.git
git remote
git checkout -b morleyhub/stepconf-help
git pull morleyhub
gitk
[commit/commit/commit]
git push morleyhub --dry-run


hope that helps.
If there are better ways maybe someone else will chime in:

Chris M

I have been trying all day with no luck. Its almost like the routing is not correct.
I will try to use the format in you listed.

I have received at least a hundred of these:

Username for 'github.com': auto-mation-assist
Password for 'auto-mation-assist@github.com':
remote: Permission to LinuxCNC/linuxcnc.git denied to auto-mation-assist.
fatal: unable to access 'github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403

I have success in posting the 1xMill gui on get hub, perhaps not in its final place but it is there for everyone to have a look at and can be cloned and complied as usual and run as a rip configuration.

The present development location is:
$ git clone github.com/auto-mation-assist/x1Mill_branch.git

During cloning After cloning it a folder named It will make a folder in your home directory called: x1Mill_branch

All the commands below are started in sequence from the folders root directory after the clone process has completed.
The x1Mill gui will run as a simulation. It is still in the process of being developed.

$ cd src
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-realtime=uspace --enable-non-distributable=yes
$ make
$ sudo make setuid
$ cd ..
$ . ./scripts/rip-environment
$ linuxcnc

The below is a picture of the simulation tree to show were it can be selected and run from, along with a picture of what you should see. Anyone who wishes to aid in getting the gui fully functional is welcome to join the development group.

looks like you are trying to push to linuxcnc's remote rather then yours.

linuxcnc/linuxcnc.git is linuxcnc project remote.

I get an error like this pushing to your remote:
fatal: Authentication failed for 'github.com/auto-mation-assist/1xMillGui.git/'

what are the names of your remotes?
what command are you using to push ?

Chris M

a couple minutes too late... ok I'll see if I can down load it...