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?

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

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