Re: [Emc-developers] Proposal: Stop supporting Py2 and GTK2 in Master.

2021-05-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> Python3 is available on all supported OS versions. Is it safe to say just Python3, or do we need to specify a version - the python download page offers 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9 with all different End of Support dates. I used some software the other day that would only work with 3.8; not 3.7 and

Re: [Emc-developers] chart of arrays

2021-04-29 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Doxygen can do most of this. It can generate interactive html from source code. If you format your comments the way doxygen likes, they appear as part of the documentation. It's also free. -Original Message- From: Stuart Stevenson [mailto:stus...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 29 April

Re: [Emc-developers] Home_use_index issue revisited

2021-04-04 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
What I'm seeing (and I'm not a linuxcnc expert) looks correct. After the homing sequence it jumps to HOME. This is documented here (0.1.3.7) http://linuxcnc.org/docs/2.4/html/config_ini_homing.html -Original Message- From: Feral Engineer [mailto:theferalengin...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [Emc-developers] Axis and Joint limits

2020-10-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> Under what sort of circumstances would you have different axis and joint > limits? A robot arm will have joints and axis that completely different. ___ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Emc-developers] framebuffer xmotion

2020-03-02 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> My question: > > Will using the framebuffer (instead of X) make a better environment for > LinuxCNC? For low spec. computers, not having the overhead of X, is a bonus. You'll also boot faster into linuxcnc. But, you won't be able to run other applications or utilities. And you'll need to

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
John Thornton [mailto:j...@gnipsel.com] Sent: Thursday, 27 February 2020 10:35 AM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak? That is a good idea! Did you get a touch screen sized buttons on your popup? JT On 2/26/2020 3:16 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: &g

Re: [Emc-developers] Touchy Tweak?

2020-02-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I did that on my version of touchy. The shutdown button pops up a dialog and gives 3 options - shutdown, restart, or close (and cancel the dialog). They just exit touchy and return 0,1 or 2 to the calling script (to do a clean linuxcnc exit). The script then executes the shutdown or

[Emc-developers] How to retreive the source for an old version of linuxcnc

2019-12-19 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm trying to get the source for version 2.6.0~pre I tried. git checkout tags/v2.6-pre0 but the VERSION file shows 2.5.0~pre output. > git checkout tags/v2.6.0-pre0 Note: checking out 'tags/v2.6.0-pre0'. You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make

[Emc-developers] Motors left enabled after inversekinematics failure.

2019-10-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm using the latest master. If I get an InverseKinematics failure (I'm playing with this at the moment), the power to the machine is cut (the power button on axis pops), but the motors are left enabled state, ie joint.0.amp-enable-out remains TRUE. It is a bit worse than that, because

[Emc-developers] Homing API

2019-08-14 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
In the “Updating LinuxCNC” documentation, section 12.2.2 Homing says… Ø A homing api is provided by src/emc/motion/homing.ini to support users' custom homing code in out-of-tree homing.c source files. What is this? Where is this? ___

Re: [Emc-developers] Homing robot arm differential joint [ was robot arm, free to a good home]

2019-03-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
: Re: [Emc-developers] Homing robot arm differential joint [ was robot arm, free to a good home] On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 21:10, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > I'm not sure how to home these joints. To find the 2 home positions (bend > and rotate) requires moving both motors at the sam

Re: [Emc-developers] got math problem I can't check in backplot

2019-02-28 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I have a cheap ebay $100 probe. I had doubts about the accuracy, so I perfomed a test probing a precision disc from all orientations. (The disc came from a 1"-2" micrometer - it is used to "zero" the micrometer). The results were pretty poor, with the error ranging from 0.3mm to 0.75mm.

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] [EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml

2018-12-04 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
so my program works. Can you confirm these? regards bkt Il giorno lun 3 dic 2018 alle ore 20:20 Frank Tkalcevic < fr...@franksworkshop.com.au> ha scritto: > Just confirming, which line do you still get the error? What is the error? > > > Here are some things you can check... >

Re: [Emc-developers] [Emc-users] [EMC] NML_FILE = emc.nml

2018-11-30 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
This is what I use on mine... https://github.com/ftkalcevic/CNCConfig/blob/master/9x20lathe/emc.nml I've added entries for my own process, hidcomp. The linuxcnc I'm running is a bit old, so I don't know if the buffer sizes are correct. -Original Message- From: theman

Re: [Emc-developers] Something odd in halui.cc ?

2018-09-15 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
The arrays are num_joints+1 in size, but the loops only initialise num_joints members. The extra code initialises some of the last element. That's what the code does, but doesn't explain why it does and what the extra array element is used for. On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 9:01 PM, andy pugh wrote:

Re: [Emc-developers] How to build LinuxCNC without GUIs locally?

2018-08-13 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> That's good. Can we also reduce the amount of depend packages determined > by "dpkg-checkbuilddeps"? If we don't need a GUI locally, I think most > of them are not necessary. I don't really know what dpkg-checkbuilddeps does. If it lists the packages required to build linuxcnc, then I'd say

Re: [Emc-developers] How to build LinuxCNC without GUIs locally?

2018-08-13 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> > If you don't want a GUI do you want a G-code interpreter, or are you > > planning on using just HAL? > HAL, EMCMOT, EMCIO, EMCTASK, NML-SERVER should be on the small board. A > GUI will work via network. I think that should avoid installation of Axis can run via standard X-Windows. That's

Re: [Emc-developers] Checking NML version

2016-12-27 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
> > I had the same problem. A half solution was to check the size of the > > structures eg sizeof(EMC_STAT). I only need to know if a binary has > > changed, and stop when there was a mismatch. > I wish there was a way to do that at runtime. As far as I know that trick > only works at

Re: [Emc-developers] Checking NML version

2016-12-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I had the same problem. A half solution was to check the size of the structures eg sizeof(EMC_STAT). I only need to know if a binary has changed, and stop when there was a mismatch. -Original Message- From: Les Newell [mailto:les.new...@fastmail.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 21 December

Re: [Emc-developers] incremental change to linuxcnc's APIs for user interfaces

2014-10-20 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
(The summary of those bugs is: the serial number method for UIs to ensure a message is acted upon by task simply does not work when there is not just one UI. No simple modification will make it work, and no one in the project in 10+ years has taken the time to understand NML with the depth

Re: [Emc-developers] Vismach docs

2014-10-16 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I agree. It can be really tedious. I spent a lot of time to get the model right. I played with OpenRave and got that to display my robot arm. You can import CAD models and then connect it to linuxcnc with a bit of python... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Ikfast ( You don't need to

Re: [Emc-developers] gremlin backplot

2014-09-29 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
You may want to look at vismach in the source tree. It is a standalone window that shows the geometry of your machine (and plot too - from memory). There is a 5 axis example there. -Original Message- From: David Armstrong [mailto:cncbas...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 23 September

Re: [Emc-developers] Custom thread for component

2014-05-18 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
As has already been mentioned, you can whatever you want with as many threads as you want. It is up to you to manage them and how they interface with whatever you interface. My VFD Modbus component is a user hal component that spawns a thread to do the USB rs485 comms. I have to manage how my

Re: [Emc-developers] Unit conversions in Canon

2014-04-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Minor complexity: we have a freaky result due to http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gcode/overview.html#sec:Order-of- Execution consider: G20 F5 G1 X1 G21 F125 X100 according to NGC the F125 is taken as inches while the destination is taken as mm! I hate this special case and think

Re: [Emc-developers] Possibly dumb question about NML buffer size

2014-04-04 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
My understanding is the size is basically the size of the shared memory block. It needs to be as big as the largest message that is sent between processes. Since linuxcnc works with a queue depth of 1, increasing above that max msg size (15k I think) does nothing. Go below the max message size,

Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt)

2014-03-27 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I guess I would first ask if the licenses are compatible. If so, then I am sure you are good., If not, then you have to find a path through that minefield. Ouch, I never considered that. I'd hate not to be able to share back to the linuxcnc community. I would say you do not understand a

Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt)

2014-03-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
. THere are some other tricks I have read about, but not tried that might speed it up a bit more than that. Probably what Andy needs are python bindings (even if it is written in another language). EBo -- On Mar 25 2014 12:11 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've tried

[Emc-developers] Submakefile nightmare

2014-03-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've just tried to add a library to one of the submakefile. The first time I tried to make, my files compiled, but with errors. I fixed a few errors, recompiled and NOTHING! For next 3 hours I moved my files, renamed them, created a subdirectory, delete extraneous commands from the submakefile,

Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt)

2014-03-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
infrastructure, and I’ve always had them in the back of my mind as to how they would affect my code. Frank From: Michael Haberler [mailto:m...@mah.priv.at] Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 9:33 PM To: Frank Tkalcevic Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt) Hi Frank

[Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt)

2014-03-25 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I want to add a linuxcnc gcode preview to my C++ Qt application. So the first question is, has anyone already done this, so I can reuse the code? Failing that, I've been looking at implementing it myself. I can see some examples such as, gcodemodule.cc and saicanon.cc, which seem to just

Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt)

2014-03-25 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
: andy pugh [mailto:bodge...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2014 12:18 AM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] GCode preview in C++ (Qt) On 25 March 2014 06:00, Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au wrote: I want to add a linuxcnc gcode preview to my C++ Qt

Re: [Emc-developers] Board with IEEE 1588 PTP

2014-03-09 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
just wrote a standalone server. -Original Message- From: Joachim Franek [mailto:joachim.fra...@pibf.de] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2014 8:13 PM To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Board with IEEE 1588 PTP On 07.03.2014 23:16, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: Cool. Do you have

Re: [Emc-developers] Board with IEEE 1588 PTP

2014-03-07 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Cool. Do you have any plans for it? -Original Message- From: Joachim Franek [mailto:joachim.fra...@pibf.de] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2014 5:35 AM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Board with IEEE 1588 PTP ht tp:/ /www.ti.com/

Re: [Emc-developers] Non-X GUI Options

2014-01-05 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I started writing a QT gui so that I could build a display for a 400x240 LCD. The display is defined by using an XML configuration file loosely based on the available QT widgets, so I have a few different display layouts. It's not much more than a proof of concept at the moment, with only some

[Emc-developers] openrave ikfast

2013-12-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
For those that are interested, I managed to get ikfast working with linuxcnc. I've created an ikfast output generator to produce C code that can be compiled as a realtime object. Closed form solutions don't link with external libraries and are very fast. Numerical solutions use the lapack

[Emc-developers] MDI in joint mode

2013-12-09 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Is it possible to issue MDI or equivalent commands in joint mode? For example, on my robot arm, I want to move joint 2 to 45 degrees. I'm guessing no, because you have to be in MDI mode to issue MDI commands and you can only be in MDI mode when in world mode. If this is the case, are

Re: [Emc-developers] Slow G code

2013-12-05 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Any 3d printed file will divide up curves into short line segments. Here's an example... www.franksworkshop.com.au/img_bin/tux.zip There's a few 3d printer M-Codes you may need to remove. -Original Message- From: Robert Ellenberg [mailto:rwe...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 6 December

Re: [Emc-developers] How to contribute to LinuxCNC

2013-11-16 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
A section on using Linuxcnc with GitHub would be nice. That is, if using github is a good idea. I forked linuxcnc a year or 2 ago and have been using it through my github. I push my changes there so they are all public, but my fork is 2 years behind. I don't know if what I 'm doing is correct.

Re: [Emc-developers] Building a new C++ kinematics module

2013-11-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I think the Makefile rules will not build a RT module out of C++ code since the kernel environment is not geared for C++ runtime support any chance you recode this into plain C ? I've managed to get it working in the simulator by hacking some rules in the Submakefile. I'm playing with ikfast

Re: [Emc-developers] Building a new C++ kinematics module

2013-11-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
ikfast got my attention recently and I looked for someone who could help me make custom kinematics for 6 axis articulated robot. Can I ask you to help find the way to do it with ikfast? It was your discussion that got me interested in ikfast. I don't think it is going to be simple. I've

[Emc-developers] Building a new C++ kinematics module

2013-11-10 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm trying to add a new C++ kinematics module. If I just put my .cc file in the src/emc/kinematics directory, nothing happens. I looked in src/Makefile and found these lines (I'm building the simulator at the moment). $(sort $(RTOBJS)) : objects/rt%.o : %.c $(ECHO) Compiling realtime

Re: [Emc-developers] development setups

2013-08-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I have a similar setup, but replace MAC with Windows PC. Any serious development is done in a virtual machine on my PC. All my linuxcnc boxes are too slow (and remotely connected) to provide a nice development experience. I use the simulator build of linuxcnc. Only after I think I have

Re: [Emc-developers] Fwd: [emc:bugs] #328 Problem using AXIS together with HALUI

2013-08-01 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Isn't this just the fact that the buffers can't be shared? If you want a command buffer don't you need to edit the linuxcnc.nml file and allocate a buffer for you process with a unique name? I had a problem where I was using Axis + Linuxcncrsh. After running for a couple of hours my job stopped

Re: [Emc-developers] Gwiz what the status?

2012-09-10 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Clearly nobody is using it lately :) I use it for my lathe and haven't noticed any problems. I was thinking that if this was embeddable in the screen and could access the python script style wizards that it would be a very handy winner. I was thinking the opposite. It would be nice if we

Re: [Emc-developers] Future Minimum Display Resolution?

2012-03-25 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
displays GCode. It uses gremlin to embed a preview, but you can't interact with it unless you use a mouse or touchscreen. In what way do you want to interact with it? Some things I have done: zooming, changing views, toggling the DRO on and off. I used separate GUI buttons to do this.

Re: [Emc-developers] Future Minimum Display Resolution?

2012-03-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've been building pendants that use small 3.2 LCD displays. My first version just used a simple command based interface (fill rectangle, draw straight line, draw text), driven by a python menu add on, which runs in parallel with Axis.

Re: [Emc-developers] Experimental web front-end for localizing LinuxCNC

2012-03-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Is this why when I just hit www.linuxcnc.com, it came up in Russian? -Original Message- From: Jeff Epler [mailto:jep...@unpythonic.net] Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012 1:10 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] Experimental web front-end for localizing

Re: [Emc-developers] Experimental web front-end for localizing LinuxCNC

2012-03-11 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
-end for localizing LinuxCNC On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:05:45PM +1100, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: Is this why when I just hit www.linuxcnc_com, it came up in Russian? No. (our website is linuxcnc.org, not .com) Jeff

[Emc-developers] Using github to host linuxcnc repository

2012-02-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm new to git so I may have completely misunderstood what git can do, but... I have more than one linuxcnc machine now, and they all have customisations to the source. As I understand it, I should be able to up my own main repository clone of linuxcnc. Then, each of my cnc machines can then

Re: [Emc-developers] Using github to host linuxcnc repository

2012-02-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Second question, can this main repository be set up on github? Given that github is free, it seems like a good place to store it. Any idea how? I've read about fork on github, but that only seems to apply to repositories hosted on github. right just create an empty emc2-dev repo on

[Emc-developers] What's being rebranded

2012-01-26 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm sure this has been described by one of the emails, but my inbox is flooded at the moment. From a source code point of view, what's changing in the rebranding? Is it just the external application names and text? The libraries, eg libemcini.so? The internal structures, EMC_TASK_STAT? I just

[Emc-developers] Is Tool table still populated in EMC_TOOL_STAT?

2011-11-06 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've just updated my source to the latest in master, and I'm trying to run a python GUI app, that uses the emc.stat.tooltable member to list all the tools in the tool table. However, the list is empty. I can still run axis, and edit the tool table from the menu, so everything seems to be in the

Re: [Emc-developers] Is Tool table still populated in EMC_TOOL_STAT?

2011-11-06 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
the Python code? -m Am 06.11.2011 um 07:09 schrieb Frank Tkalcevic: I've just updated my source to the latest in master, and I'm trying to run a python GUI app, that uses the emc.stat.tooltable member to list all the tools in the tool table. However, the list is empty. I can still run

[Emc-developers] Patch: Jog Speed exceeds axis MAX_VELOCITY

2011-10-31 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I posted this in the emc-users group because I thought it was a configuration problem, but it appears to be a software issue. This only happens on a gantry system. When axis starts, emc is in EMC_TRAJ_MODE_FREE, meaning all axis can be jogged freely. axis uses the EMC_AXIS_JOG command which

Re: [Emc-developers] hal_input bug(?)

2011-04-04 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
As you suggested, most USB devices only send updates when inputs change. In the USB spec, it is possible to query the device inputs. I'm guessing hal_input doesn't support that. hidcomp (http://hidcomp.sourceforge.net/) is supposed to support that, but I can't guarantee it works because the

[Emc-developers] emctool.h not found

2010-08-01 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I'm trying to rebuild my application against 2.4.3. It is an external application that uses header files in include, and links with libraries in src/emc2/lib (emchal, emc, nml, encini) The current version won't compile because canon.hh includes emctool.h, which is in another directory (sorry,

Re: [Emc-developers] v2.4_branch created; master open for new features

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
The creation of the v2.4_branch means that new features can go on master again, but I hope that for the time being people will concentrate on 2.4. For the casual source code getter, how do I update my current git source to that particular version?

[Emc-developers] EMC+RTNET

2009-12-18 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've been playing around with RTNet (realtime ethernet). I've been looking at it as an alternative to parallel ports, and internal cards. I've built an embedded slave using the Atmel NGW100 board. I have a test application that runs on RTAI linux (the master), which reads the encoder and IO

[Emc-developers] Additional includes for comp

2009-12-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Is there any way to specify additional include directories when building a .comp component, ie the -Ipath option? The realtime headers don't seem to have all of the system header files. (at least I think that is why it can't find the headers) Frank

Re: [Emc-developers] Additional includes for comp

2009-12-12 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
it in C? -Original Message- From: Frank Tkalcevic [mailto:fr...@franksworkshop.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 13 December 2009 1:42 PM To: 'EMC developers' Subject: Additional includes for comp Is there any way to specify additional include directories when building a .comp component, ie

Re: [Emc-developers] klunk on homing to index - NO!

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I just tried the fix on my lathe, and it looks worse. I always got the klunk the first time I homed, but it would be OK if I did subsequent homes. I use a home switch and an index pulse. It moves to the home switch, then reverses slowly to find the index pulse. It sets the X value to be the

Re: [Emc-developers] klunk on homing to index - NO!

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
component too? Without that the behaviour should be unchanged (might be good to test that too). Regards, Alex -- From: Frank Tkalcevic fr...@franksworkshop.com.au Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:33 AM To: 'EMC developers' emc-developers

Re: [Emc-developers] klunk on homing to index - YES!

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Are either of you using FF2? I'm not, but it would be nice if that was tested too. I am, but not by design. I just kept tweaking parameters until the servo behaviour was adequate. Was there a significant change that I need to look out for?

Re: [Emc-developers] RCS/CMS/NML question

2009-07-31 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
According the documentation http://www.isd.mel.nist.gov/projects/rcslib/NMLcpp.html there is a blocking_read() function that internally waits until it is signalled that there is a message to be read. You can either look into the blocking_read implementation to see if the events/fds are exposed,

[Emc-developers] Shared memory errors

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I've been writing a component, based on emclcd.cc and shcom.cc. I think the code was working - it would start up in a halrun, but now it fails to start with nml errors. I'm not sure how the shared memory works. Do I need to allocate a new key(?) for my application? I just took shcom.cc which

Re: [Emc-developers] Shared memory errors

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
successful? Thanks, Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Tkalcevic [mailto:fr...@franksworkshop.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 21 July 2009 6:50 PM To: 'EMC developers' Subject: Shared memory errors I've been writing a component, based on emclcd.cc and shcom.cc. I think the code was working

Re: [Emc-developers] Shared memory errors

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
] Shared memory errors On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:00:14AM +1000, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: I'm having another issue with reading messages from the error channel. I've copied the code from shcom.cc where it will do a read() from the error channel. This is ok for my component, I receive

Re: [Emc-developers] Shared memory errors

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
, but leaves me in a bit of a pickle because, although peek() works well, it is a race condition between me peeking and axis reading. -Original Message- From: Frank Tkalcevic [mailto:fr...@franksworkshop.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 22 July 2009 1:47 PM To: 'EMC developers' Subject: RE: [Emc

Re: [Emc-developers] [ emc-Bugs-2817783 ] G76 inifinite loop

2009-07-06 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
Oops. I think I did this. I hit refresh on the bug list in a browser and I think it added a new one. Sorry, Frank -Original Message- From: SourceForge.net [mailto:nore...@sourceforge.net] Sent: Tuesday, 7 July 2009 3:11 PM To: nore...@sourceforge.net Subject: [Emc-developers] [

Re: [Emc-developers] Axis rewrite - GUI/use cases suggestions

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
On May 25, 2009 04:50:25 pm Frank Tkalcevic wrote: My only gripe with QtDesigner is that you need to recompile the code afterwards. That is not true with python, which is interpreted. Of course, you have to regenerate the gui's python code with a command such as : pyuic4 -o axisGui.py

Re: [Emc-developers] Willing to contribute

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
My 2 cents... I'm new to emc. I chose emc for my lathe after using mach for my mill, mainly for the threading support, but also because it was open source. I was very impressed with the internal architecture of emc, and how easy it was to build and a configure a system with components, pins

[Emc-developers] string type hal pin?

2009-05-20 Thread Frank Tkalcevic
I have a USB device I want to use as a pendant which has an LCD display. I'm OK with writing the USB code to program it, I'm just unsure how I can integrate it with emc to provide useful outputs. I'm building yet another joystick type hal component. It works at a lower level allowing access to