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?
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