Hi John

Interesting project.

Have you looked at Tormach's Path Pilot to see if it has any of the 
conversational features you are trying to achieve?

Martin
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Just a quick note about the hole boring program I ported from C command line to 
Lazarus Pascal GUI.  I've compiled it on LinuxCNC after the classic:
sudo apt-get install lazarus

Once that was installed I loaded the project I'd written under Lazarus under 
WIN-7 and it failed compiling with a single error.
It seems the LinuxCNC version is older and doesn't support
  Application.Scaled:=True;

Commenting this out resulted in a successful compile.  The only side effect of 
this is the text on the window was larger and was overlapped by text boxes or 
other text labels.

After that it ran and generated a workable version with Radius G-Codes.  Like 
the Windows version the I,J G-Code version has issues.

The information I'm trying to pass on is that with only a few issues it looks 
like it will be possible to create a large number of interactive tools for 
LinuxCNC using Lazarus which, like the original Object Pascal for Windows, 
makes windowed user interfaces easy to design and implement.

My goal is to create the MACH3 like wizards for LinuxCNC.  Ones where we just 
fill in the blanks for many of the simple operations that would take way longer 
using the CAM software.  And I really don't want to become fluent in G-Code 
programming which to me is way too much like command line work for Linux.  I'm 
not interested in staying in the 70's.

John





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