Sounds like you will be in good shape on the touch screens. Swapping the Y axis is really simple. You swap the upper and lower Y calibration numbers and it reverses.
Also, there are a couple of good calibration utilities out there that will make calibration a snap when you get to that point. Dave On 12/7/2012 3:03 PM, Ben Paulsen wrote: > Thanks for the links Dave, your suggested approach sounds about right. > I've been lurking on this list for a while, reading what I could and now > Im at the point where I feel Im only going to learn more by doing. It is > quite the beast though. > > Luckily I got a couple of ELO ET1547L-8SWC-1 (15" serial interface) > touchscreens for cheap off ebay. I tested them with an older dell mini I > have running xbuntu (dont remember which version but I dont think it was > 12) and they worked 'out of the box' with the exception of having y > reversed. I didnt bother digging into the config at that point (wasnt its > permanent home, didnt want to mess up other configs). Thanks for the offer > though. > > > > > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Gene Heskett<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Friday 07 December 2012 11:41:10 Dave did opine: >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> >> Believe it or not, I have an elotouch equipt 15" monitor, I'm using it on >> the Color Computer as a vga monitor, but I am not using the touch screen. >> I came by it when they tore down an old weather segment set in the tv >> stations studios and the new one wasn't going to allow the weather guys, >> who really aren't artists anyway, to draw on screen while live. >> >> I should write a driver that would allow me to use it as a mouse pointer, >> it would be kewl, but I'd also be the only one on the planet to do that. >> >> >>> 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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