On Wednesday 28 November 2018 12:15:25 Jon Elson wrote: > On 11/28/2018 07:23 AM, Jeff Epler wrote: > > .. which is likely, in turn, to affect LinuxCNC. Those > > interested > > should look at modernizing the parts of LinuxCNC that > > still use gtk2. > > > > I know this still includes halscope and halmeter. it > > would be a real > > pity to lose halscope to CADTs^Wthe progress of the Linux > > desktop. > > A PITY? Try catastrophe! I suspect halmeter could be > recoded to use a newer library fairly easily, HalScope is a > pretty complicated GUI, with at least a few custom widgets, > I think. That could be a lot harder to port to a new > environment. And, HalScope is CRITICAL to servo > installations. (Darn useful for any debugging of the real > time side of Hal, too.) > > Jon > I've GOT to agree with Jon. Granted, its nowhere near fast enough but that's a limit of its sampling rate, but it can do things that without it we'ed be removing chip tops and guiding a probe with an electron microscope. Catastrophe is way too weak a word.
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