I was thinking about splitting in two and use ordinary user interface, web ui is usually horrible to use although it may have some uses because there is no need to install software.
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:21:49 +0100 Andreas Pettersson <[email protected]> wrote: > awesome, i gonna take a look at the C++ examples. > thought it could be a challenge of making a webui for a device running > linuxcnc on a lattepanda or a beaglebone black from there. And using a > mesa card for removing the load from the lightweight controller easily. =) > > // Andreas > > > Den 2016-11-29 kl. 16:40, skrev Sebastian Kuzminsky: > > On 11/29/2016 07:34 AM, Andreas Pettersson wrote: > >> Would there be something that limits one to implement a UI for LinuxCNC > >> as a restful service > >> in say Python - that would listen to like port 8080 and take commands like > >> > >> /moveXAxis/positive/10/mm > >> > >> Why, cuz i want to. And i guess one could bind a zeromq realtime > >> component into it or something like that > >> being able to abstrac it to a RTC based UI on a tablet or a phone. > > Yep, this is totally doable. > > > > The LinuxCNC motion control core talks to the user interfaces via a > > message passing system called NML. Multiple UIs can be connected to the > > motion controller at the same time, as is commonly done with (for > > example) Axis and halui. > > > > Your web-based UI would look and act (to the motion controller) just > > like any other UI, and the motion controller wouldn't know or care that > > it presents a web interface instead of a graphical user interface on the > > other side. > > > > New UIs can most easily be written in C, C++, or Python. > > > > All the UIs live in src/emc/usr_intf/. The simplest C/C++ example is > > probably halui, though i'd recommend using the shcom library (also in > > src/emc/usr_intf) for writing new C/C++ UIs. > > > > The simplest Python example might actually be some of our test programs, > > for example tests/abort/feed-rate/test-ui.py. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
