Preview Screen update after Touch off?

I use this Macro in my .ini
HALUI
MDI_COMMAND G10 L20 P0 X0 Y0 Y0

The Macro is attached to a jog pendant button and works fine.  On the Preview screen you can see the X-Y axis display resets to the new zero at the tool position, but the path preview does not move to reflect the new start position.  If I manually select the touch off tab, then press, for example Z=0 and hit okay, the screen refreshes and the path displays properly.

What can I use to cause the preview to refresh like the GUI tab does?  Having the screen update automatically is kind of important as the machine (CNC Longarm for quilting) is used by my wife and the preview is very helpful to determine if the pattern is laid out properly.  Pressing more buttons on the screen defeats the point of using the pendant to touch off.  The pendant also has a program start button for simplicity.


 

I do not believe there currently is a built in way to do this in Gmoccapy, but I think version 2.9.x allows user customization, so could be added in such a way.

It's a common short coming of linuxcnc actually (automatic reloading the display on G10 etc)

So that brings up my next question. Is it fairly simple to strip out the GUI functions that I don’t need? Spindle control, for example? Coolant etc.

I'm not a Gmoccapy expert by any means but it looks like this is the easiest way to modify the screen,
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gui/gmocca...tabs-and-side-panels

If that is enough for you then yes pretty easy.

U2fletch wrote:

I use this Macro in my .ini
HALUI
MDI_COMMAND G10 L20 P0 X0 Y0 Y0

The Macro is attached to a jog pendant button and works fine.  On the Preview screen you can see the X-Y axis display resets to the new zero at the tool position, but the path preview does not move to reflect the new start position.  If I manually select the touch off tab, then press, for example Z=0 and hit okay, the screen refreshes and the path displays properly.

What can I use to cause the preview to refresh like the GUI tab does?  Having the screen update automatically is kind of important as the machine (CNC Longarm for quilting) is used by my wife and the preview is very helpful to determine if the pattern is laid out properly.  Pressing more buttons on the screen defeats the point of using the pendant to touch off.  The pendant also has a program start button for simplicity.



 

You can try if using a gmoccapy macro button makes a difference:

linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gui/gmoccapy.html#gmoccapy:macros

cmorley wrote:

I'm not a Gmoccapy expert by any means but it looks like this is the easiest way to modify the screen,
linuxcnc.org/docs/stable/html/gui/gmocca...tabs-and-side-panels

If that is enough for you then yes pretty easy.

Yes, with "EMBED_TAB_COMMAND = hide" you can simply hide the mentioned frames.

Great tips, thanks guys will check it out.