Alex Joni <alex.j...@...> writes: > > Maybe you can start a wikipage with these ideas, they surely seem > interesting. > More input interleaved. > > I think the main difference is between servo and stepper systems, so that > should be an initial setup decision. > Maybe we should only concentrate on servo initially, as stepper is currently > handled by stepconf. > (More advanced stepper configurations like: quadrature stepping, etc are > less common).
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of just step/dir initially for steppers and that we would inherit from stepconf. So, we would be able to concentrate on servo configuration. > > I think a separate tool to design PyVCP panels would be more benficial. That > way it can be used even by people currently having a working config (no > matter how they got it), who want to add a pyvcp panel. > Some classicladder is supported by stepconf (thanks to Chris M.), so I think > that's also a nice thing to have. > I see some benefit to that but since to be useful the pyvcp widgets require access to hal signals, it seems to me to make sense to incorporate it into advconf. Maybe it could be a core tool that could be used standalone and within advconf? > > That is slowly starting to look like the set of sample configurations we > have in emc2. > Think about the advantages when there are changes in the configuration files required by an update. Simply being able to run the new advconf wizard could generate a new set of configs with the required changes. > > Maybe add PID autotuning to the list. > I did (sort of). > > That's an interesting idea. But for this to work best, the "data" needs to > reside outside the actual config tool. > I was already thinking about that. I once was involved in the development of an application development framework where you could redefine the data files, the menus, and the screens of an application without recompiling. > > development of this configuration wizard? > starting a wiki page, and adding things there will certainly help with this. > > Regards, > Alex > Alex, I have created a wiki page with my proposal here: <http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Advanced_Configuration> Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
