Gscreen - a GTK / Glade / Python based screen

tjamscad wrote: A few picky things.

1. It would really be nice and improve useability if the setup mode was a tab, and MDI was a tab and Run mode was a tab. The multiselect button for changing them is difficult to use.

2. For indications that have color it really needs to be black when off.

3. spindle forward and revesrse have little circles with a line through them for me.

4. mist and flow indtcate backwards from what is selected

5. Setup mode has tool editor button, there is a tool editor tab already.

6. in setup mode when selecting grapihcs there is a button that just shows the red circle with the line

7. MDI mode has the toggle keyboard in 2 spots.

8. run mode has "page3" on it sugest renaming to the loaded program.

9. tool editor has style on it can that be in prefferences.

10. all the graphics windows say view-p

11. can the debug tab be hidden unless for normal operators duing normal use. Like turned off with permissions or something.

That is all. Chris you have done some amaxing work on this.

1) let me work on that.
2) ok, I don't like it but can understand -changed
3) yes these circles with a line through them are 'missing image indicators' this is a technical problem that can only be fixed on the users local
copy of the GLADE file. While it is easy to fix - what I did was remove the images and just used text. You seemed to prefer text anyways.
For anyone who wants the images ask me and I will detail how to get them back.
4) fixed
5) removed the button
6) changed to text its the 'clear plot' button
7) fixed
ya that was a regression fixed again
9) the tool editor is a separate program I will change this later.
10) view-P is the perspective view there is x , y ,y2 z and z2 available (not all available on a mill) You can change it under the graphics select button
11) I struggle for an idea of how to toggle this to show or not show, aside from adding a button to toggle the tab showing, which just seems wrong.
the only other way I can think of is to force you to change something in the INI file to tell Gscreen to show the tab - I don't really like that much either....

I will push these changes now...

Chris M

I added buttons in the main tab to select the mode directly. probably needs some polish on that but see if you like it better.

Chris M

Love the tabs, it would be nice if they were the same size for a cleaner look but you said polish. I can navigate directly to the screen i want at the touch of a button. I will review in more detail next week and provide feedback if nessary. Great job Chris!

wow!

I want this!!!! how do I do it? will do a bit more reading... well done!!!! :woohoo:

Gscreen is available oly in the development branch 'master'.
You can get that either from buildbot or by compiling yourself.

I'm so happy people find this exciting and useable!

Chris M

I made the tool table adjust it's columns to how many axis are available
also there is an 'index tool' button in the set up mode that is available after homing.
It pops a calculator dialog for tool number entry - I should probably make this just a number entry widget.
I sets the tool offset to the tool number ( eg T2 G43 H2 ) which may not be the best thing especially if using a lathe...

Chris M