On Monday 14 January 2019 03:49:52 Lester Caine wrote: > On 14/01/2019 04:21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Makes you want to move south and hunt alligators for a living.:( > > Nowadays I wish I'd gone through the other door 45 years ago and not > got into electronics at all ;) > But if you had done that, we'ed still be looking for a framework for cutting an optical encoder wheel that is as well organized and easy to modify for a specific use as yours.
Electronics has been good for me. I started out with an 8th grade education, fixing these newfangled things called tv's in '48. Got a 1st phone in '62, a C.E.T. in 72. Didn't crack a book to get either, switched from consumer electronics to broadcasting in '64. And by 2002, retiring from a tv station Chief Engineer's chair, I was making about 58k a year. Pretty good for an Iowa farm kid with an 8 grade education. Along the way, serendipity has left my fingerprints in quite a few impressive places. Its been an interesting ride I've mostly enjoyed, but I also understand that at 84 it will come to an end. Probably before the battery in this newly installed pacemaker reaches its predicted 10 year lifespan. > I've run eclipse for a long time now as it handles just about > everything other than the drawing stuff. Has MercurialEclipse running > behind it which has saved my bacon a few times given that Linux is > just as bad as Windows now at screwing stuff up and since Eclipse runs > identically on both THAT helps as well. But I still wonder if XML is > really necessary? Playing with the config on a 3D printer and this is > just an extension to gcode and .ini files tend to be easier to read as > well ... I swear both at and by xml. But when it gets beyond 100 loc, its too damed easy to screw it up. <vbox> and <hbox> need a better set of dox just to help one stay "organized", and is not helped a bit by reading the dozens of beginners tuts you can find on the net, none of which use notations that pycvp uses. Where I really tend to lose patience is with the profligate use of white space. To me its wasted screen real estate to put 6 scan lines of white space above and below the 12 pt font used for text on a button. Thats wasted screen real estate to me and has severely limited what one can do in the right hand panel. You need room for the msgs and such stuff your gcode might express as it runs too. <width>"33"</width> in particular is confusing because its interpreted in some cases as pixels, but in other cases as character boxes. Probably the same complaint could be made for <height> but its not bit me that hard, yet... Sigh. Frustrating at times with the poor dox we can get. Take care Lester. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
