Spacebar as a pause button not working

I have a local copy of handler that my config uses. I grabbed latest from 2.9 install when I first installed master a few days ago then modded it for a coup of small things. I can make changes and see them (mostly python syntax errors...doh). Space key never works. Funny thing is sometimes pause button doesn't work either, sometime it does....

can you set the ini to:

DISPLAY = qtvcp -d qtdragon

Then run linuxcnc from a terminal.
after qtdragon loads, press estop to get the focus on wtdragon then press the space bar.
You should see some debug output in the terminal.
please post what its says about the 'key_any'

also just after loading you should see something like this in the terminal:

[QTvcp.QTVCP.QT_PSTAT][DEBUG] Checking for handler file in: /home/chris/emc/configs/sim/qtdragon/qtdragon/qtdragon_handler.py (qt_pstat.py:96)
[QTvcp.QTVCP.QT_PSTAT][DEBUG] Checking for default handler file in: /home/chris/emc/share/qtvcp/screens/qtdragon/qtdragon_handler.py (qt_pstat.py:102)
[QTvcp.QTVCP.QT_PSTAT][INFO] Using DEFAULT handler file path: /home/chris/emc/share/qtvcp/screens/qtdragon/qtdragon_handler.py (qt_pstat.py:105)

please post that too.

   

The unkown key is the pause button....

In qtdragon_hd, the function name uses capitals:

KEYBIND.add_call('Key_Any', 'on_keycall_PAUSE')

I bet thats the problem.

Again I fixed these problems in 2.9, thanks for the report/questions

Not sure i follow. the name in the keybind is "on_keycall_PAUSE" but so is the function name..... I do see that non-HD is a lower case "pause" for both bind and func name.... Why would this matter?

on_key_pause and
on_key_PAUSE

are different function calls. The code must match what is in the handler file.
qtdragon uses the lower case one, qtdragon_hd uses the upper case one.

Since I can't see your handler file to confirm, I am guessing this is the problem.
Can you confirm they are the same case and/or post the handlerfile you are using.