Ben; The HTML docs I believe are still the most current docs for LinuxCNC.
This is the HTML Touchy GUI doc. http://linuxcnc.org/docs/html/gui/touchy.html Last spring I did a custom HMI for LinuxCNC based machine control that used a 8" touch screen. I first looked at Touchy and started altering that, but then went to the Gscreen GUI and ended up altering that to fit instead of Touchy. Touchy was designed to be used with a Touch screen, whereas Gscreen is general purpose GUI that is customizable. I mention Touchy simply because you seem to be new to LinuxCNC and it should be easy to get Touchy running right away without delving into a redevelopment of Gscreen just for your specific machine. Learning LinuxCNC is like eating an elephant.. best done one bite at a time. :-) Once you figure out how LinuxCNC works with Touchy and what you like and don't like, you will be in a better position to alter Gscreen to suit your needs. And in the mean time your machine will be running.. :-) Just a warning about touch screens.. I really wrestled with getting my 8" touch screen to work properly with Linux 10.04 as the screen used a driver called "eeti" or something close. Here is the company that wrote the driver that is commonly used by the Chinese and Taiwanese touch screens. http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eg/Touch_Drives.html It went as far as me contacting the developers of the driver in Taiwan and we sent test results back and forth to each other for a couple of weeks. Their driver is built into Linux 12.04, but 12.04 is not yet officially supported by LinuxCNC. The EETI driver for 10.04 is not right, major bugs, and it can only be corrected by doing a custom kernel recompile which opens many cans of worms.. I understand that touch screens that support the Elotouch drivers work ok with Linux 10.04 but most of the Chinese touch screens seem to use the eeti driver and not the Elotouch driver. If you find yourself wrestling with a eeti driver, let me know and I will dig out what I did. I think I put the links into a message to this group also, but that was early in 2012. I posted the long story on a couple of public websites as I found many other people also struggling with the same driver with 10.04. I haven't looked at the Gscreen docs for a while until today and it looks like Chris has been hard at it, improving Gscreen even further! Nice.. :-) Thanks Chris!! Dave On 12/6/2012 5:21 PM, Ben Paulsen wrote: > Stuart - I agree, Im just looking for various ideas. So far I came up with: > E-stop > Step/Start > Stop > Flood > Tool change > Jog + > Jog - > Mode? > Axis ? > ... > > Dave - not sure what you mean, you wouldn't have a link would you? > > John - That's a great set of tutorials, thanks a ton! I > will definitely use that in the near future. > > > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:10 AM, John Thornton<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Have you see my notes on building a GUI? >> >> http://gnipsel.com/linuxcnc/index.html >> >> John >> >> On 12/5/2012 8:11 PM, Ben Paulsen wrote: >> >>> This is actually similar to what I have been thinking about lately. I am >>> designing an interface for EMC that will have a touchscreen, some number >>> >> of >> >>> physical buttons/switches (Estop a definate) and a keyboard hanging below >>> it. I might build a pendant in the future, maybe/probably (I want a jog >>> wheel). >>> >>> I have limited space and want to keep the buttons to a minimum. What >>> PHYSICAL buttons should I put on the interface? >>> Here is a rough Sketch >>> http://i.imgur.com/hW50I.png >>> >>> >>> This is my first EMC build. 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