the usertabs give you the entire upper canvas pretty much to do anything you want and you can nest other tabs in them if you want more realestate for customization. just a thought!
As i said it is no option because of the change to debian 12.. I would need to update my hardware and everything. Thats the reason why i hate this online stuff..
i tried to install QtPyVCP v0.3.10 because this is what my machine runs on. But it seems the dependencies are not defined as the versions which were used back than.. Alternativley the latest version which runs with python2.7 and LinuxCNC2.8
Om not sure what hardware you are referring too requiring updating? Vtk requirements have been in place since probe basics beginning. Aside from that i dont think there is any hardware upgrade required, at least not from memory. You can check your current version to make sure they match the requirement and if so, upgrade away.
Probe Basic requires graphics hardware that supports OpenGL 3.2 and OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) 1.50 or later
I'm trying to switch to the newer version but with my own screen i built back than..
I installed the dev version of ProbeBasic and exchanged the probe_basic.ui with my own. If i use the launcher probe_basic_mill_designer.sh it opens my screen and luckily it looks quite promising so far. Its only missng two attributes "referenceType" and "axis".
But if i want to test the sceen and open the desktop starter probe basic mill it shows the standard UI. Regarding to the documentation this should run LinuxCNC with the UI changes i made shouldn't it? Where is the GUI of probe basic located?
And is paramsaver not available anymore with linuxCNC 2.9? It seems that it cannot load it.
Ok just found out that the shortcut for probe basic mill just uses the ui which is in python3/dist-packages/probe_basic
i thought the dev edition runs a virtual enviroment ?
the latest version of probe basic has shifted to using the var file to store parameters in conjunction with the pickle file. this was done so the stored parameters would be available from M6 remap subroutine is needed. it was a big update needed for those using atc but also beneficial for all, you might consider trying to use the user tabs which can be modified without needing the dev version and will never be overwritten and always be compatible with updates. it really is the smarter direction to go so you never need to worry with the corner you painted yourself into.
