On Tuesday 28 February 2017 00:13:51 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have one joint worth of the updown and bitslice coded up and tested. > > Plus values in the 0 to 7 range behave as expected. updown counts of > -1 to -7 do not, but do give unique address outputs of 15 to 9 in > nibble values, so there is no conflict at any point in the -7 to 7 > range. I just have to feed the gain factor into the correct mux.N.inN. > > Encoder gain has been mentioned as 4, so that one felt detent is an > increment or decrement of one at the .position output, I think, is > that correct for this use? > > Or do I need to use the axis/joint .scale in here to achieve, as the > smallest base motion of one motor microstep per felt detent, or 100 > microsteps per full turn of the dial. That seems like the right speed > to approach a touching-off point to me. All other speeds would be > 2x,5x,10x,20x,50x,100x,200x,500x, although the last 2 or 3 might be > tool breakers/killers, in which case we just further restrict the > .min/.max of the updown module with .clamp=true. In fact what I write > will, to be expanded only if its obviously too slow. > > Feels like time to add the tally boxes to pyvcp.panel.xml, and add > some method of displaying the negative values in a proper appearing > tally, so it appears to have a unity speed at center scale. Drag out > the big .pdf again for the xml stuffs. :O}
Alright, next problem, need a pyvcp bar with value ticks I can label. Where would I find a better discussion of these tkinter bits and pieces? I assume there is a full document on tkinter that I don't have installed? Or a better than even bet, I am not looking for the right name... Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
