Should be relatively easy using pycairo for the graphics. You can use gtk
drawing area and Cairo.create to make the widget.
On Dec 23, 2012 7:21 PM, "Gene Heskett" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings;
>
> Never having played with very much xml, I am wondering how it might be
> possible to make a round tachometer display that has 2 needles, one in one
> color for requested speed, and one in a contrasting color to show actual
> speed as reported by the slightly filtered encoder.velocity output.
>
> I am using the tutorial at:
>
> <http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/2.5/html/hal/pyvcp_examples.html>
>
> down toward the bottom of that page.
>
> Or is a dual needle display even possible in PyVCP?
>
> I am assuming that if I can make it display the disconnected meter, then a
> halshow will discover the (halpin)<spindle_rpm>(/halpin) that I can then
> 'connect' in the postgui.hal to one of the hal outputs from the encoder?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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