Another GUI project underway

Hello all,

I was fortunate enough to meet and befriend a few very talented and patient fellow board and IRC members who were kind enough to help me start to learn a little bit about GUI's and coding.. (a very little bit to date admittedly). They are Hazzy and TurBoss. We have been tinkering on a screen design and some probing routines, and figured we would throw then out into the world and get some feedback. The start was to use a similar approach as pathpilot as that seemed like a popular interface often referred to by many people. But as we got into it we made a few minor changes in the layout. Below is a rough example, nothing final, still a working rough draft done in QTDesigner and built on top of one of cmorleys earlier designs. Currently all buttons and sliders are in stock form but we hope to dress some things up a little nicer to bring out some more personality. We are aiming for a clean streamlined interface. So please let us know your constructive criticism. Look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas, things you like, things you don't. Everyone's tastes are different, so we understand it's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, just please keep it cordial and polite.

Thanks!

Chris (and thanks to the hard work of Hazzy, TurBoss and Cmorley for making this possible so far!)

My 0.02c...
This looks very similar to the Blender style GUI BrendaEM is doing...
forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/34572-a-wides...yle-interface#110805

When did the trend to dark grey CNC controller screens catch on? I don't like the arcade game garish colours of many Mach 3 screen, and think Gmoccapy could be tuned done a little on some of the clip art and colours, but never got the trend to dark grey visuals either.

I think Gmoccapy is nearly perfect with the soft keys and the way Norbert implemented shuttling through ABS/REL/DTG rather than triplicating this information on screen.

I really like the green/white background for the program/MDI overview they are proposing for the Blender GUI, as that makes it more readable. And the tool library graphics are real eye candy. Hope that gets ported to GmoccaPy.
forum.linuxcnc.org/41-guis/34572-a-wides...ace?start=310#115103

With the move to bigger screens, there is a trend to information overkill on some GUI proposals.
Mark

If i remember correctly, i read somewhere that Tormach will not let Linuxcnc users use their graphics and wizards.
I like the design as it is much easier to understand what is going on for new users, and i do agree that having 3 types of DRO there is to much. I also do like darker themes as having to look at a bright screens all day is not easy on the eyes.
As for me personally, i like to have everything on screen, even what is going on with the electronics as you can see from the image below.


Again i do like it a lot !

Chris:
It's a very nice take on tormach's screen.
Are you using Kurt's pyqtvcp branch or my qtvcp branch?
Keep up the good work!

Mark:
The color of the screens are pretty easy to change anyways.

I like it, nice & clean, seems less cluttered.

Nice job.

I like having all the different bits of info there all the time (Touchy does the same thing)
I don't want to have to poke the screen to check that DTG makes sense.