Chris Morley wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I got playing around with glade and custom pyGtk widgets this weekend.
> came up with a proof of concept for Glade VCP panels.
> would work pretty much the same as pyvcp except for :
> -can be built with glade editor  ---BIG bonus!
> -can use GTK's larger toolkit
> -can be integrated with pyGtk programs (and with another library C gtk 
> programs)
>
> on that last note I modified  touchy to parse the glade file looking 
> for hal widgets.
> The cool thing about this is one can add hal widgets in any way to the 
> glade file
> and touchy will find them and make pins for them . all without 
> recompiling.
> if you want to add a tab notebook and a bunch of LEDS for status, load 
> touchy in glade,
>  change it, save it and load emc - your pins will be there.
> if you don't touchy is exactly the same.
>
> If one took the bases of touchy ,Glade VCP and gremlin (hey how do you 
> load that Jeff?)
> you could build a full gtk frontend that users could change the look 
> and function of quite easily.
>
> I like the standalone panels with gtk a little better then tk too.
> samples:
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?GladeVcp
>
> Thoughts?
> Chris M
>
Loading Glade in my computer now :) I messed with it once but didn't get 
very far. Is touchy done in Glade?

John T

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