How can I run this, Chris? I pulled the latest off the buildbot and changed our config according to your instructions on the wiki but gscreen doesn't seem to be in there anywhere (I can't find the executable). -Tom
On Nov 9, 2012, at 1:54 AM, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I have merged Gscreen into master. > Gscreen is a GTK/gladeVCP/python based GUI. > > There is an fairly complete overview on the wiki: > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Gscreen > > Gscreen is still in development / testing. > In fact that's why I merged it - so more people can exercise it. > I'm sure there are some bugs yet and a few things are not slick as I want. > I have used it on a small mill and others have tested it. > > Gscreen requires a fairly high res screen 1280x720 or higher I have tested > with. > At the moment machines only machines with XYZA or less are supported. > It has been made to work with a touchscreen though a mouse is fine too. > To do Gcode editing or MDI requires a keyboard (even with a touchscreen) > > There are sample configs under sim/gscreen and sim/gscreen_custom. > Gscreen supports embedded programs eg gladevcp and webcams. > Gscreen supports postgui_hal. > > It is pretty customizable. > as well as embedding, the gladefile can be edited and since it uses glade_VCP > frame work it can use similar python handler files. This part needs more work. > Of course it supports GTK themes. > There is a sample config that shows 9 axis buttons and a custom button that > counts how many time you push it. > You not going to be able to completely change the way it works but can change > quite a lot. > > While Gscreen will not be for everyone I do think It at least stands as an > example of > what can be done with the gladeVCP toolset and python programming. > I am not a programer by trade so I apologize for the unpretty code - I will > continue > to try and clean/simplify it. > > If you are so inclined please try it out and give feedback either here or in > the forum. > > In the process of making gscreen, quite a bit of work has been done to > gladeVCP > widgets to make them more usable and a couple new ones, calculator and > tooledit_gtk > were added. > The documentation still needs to be made... > > Chris M > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
