Re: [Emc-developers] New Forum topic request

2020-01-21 Thread Moses McKnight
Done. What would you like for the description text for the category? Moses On 1/21/20 8:10 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Hey I hoping someone can make a Qtvcp catagory under the 'user interfaces' catagory and make me the moderator. I'm not sure who to ask directly... thanks Chris M __

Re: [Emc-developers] 32-bit kernels

2019-11-14 Thread Moses McKnight
On 11/14/19 1:03 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: On 11/14/19 12:35 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: My vote would be to only support 64-bit going forward.  Distributions are starting to discontinue 32-bit editions as well, and the hardware that is 32-bit only is pretty rare for anything new.  For

Re: [Emc-developers] 32-bit kernels

2019-11-14 Thread Moses McKnight
I suspect that had to do with either your video cable or perhaps the particular kernel you were testing. I have had that issue on numbers of 32-bit kernels and the problem has almost always been the video cable or connection (especially with VGA cables). I've used 64-bit kernels with the i915

Re: [Emc-developers] 32-bit kernels

2019-11-14 Thread Moses McKnight
My vote would be to only support 64-bit going forward. Distributions are starting to discontinue 32-bit editions as well, and the hardware that is 32-bit only is pretty rare for anything new. For instance, the board in the link you sent is "available for special order only until factory stock

Re: [Emc-developers] Update to lowpass.comp

2019-08-17 Thread Moses McKnight
That sounds like it can go in the 2.8 branch - I'll try and commit it soon. Thanks Les! Also, since you reported bug #579 (https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/issues/579), as of yesterday that should be fixed in the latest 2.7, 2.8, and master branches. So if you would like to, try using ON_

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 plasmac

2019-07-05 Thread Moses McKnight
What Chris says is right - if GUI changes are just in the form of VCP and configs and all, it is fine with me - and thanks for your work! Moses On 7/5/19 2:57 PM, Chris Morley wrote: The release manager has last say on what can't be added. Assuming your 'GUI' changes are VCP changes (not say

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-31 Thread Moses McKnight
I *think* QTVCP is not the same thing as QTPYVCP, and if you look at the commit logs for master it looks like qtvcp was merged into master on Jan 18. Chris, what are the differences in QTVCP and QTPYVCP? I have not had time to follow either of those much - although I'm interested in using Qt.

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
skett wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2019 02:15:59 pm Chris Morley wrote: Yes a couple weeks is way too short. A couple months is more like it. Chris M I'm with Chris, see why below. Original message ---- From: Moses McKnight Date: 2019-05-30 9:48 a.m. (GMT-07:00) To: emc-

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
ana...@hotmail.com>: Yes a couple weeks is way too short. A couple months is more like it. Chris M Original message From: Moses McKnight Date: 2019-05-30 9:48 a.m. (GMT-07:00) To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning I'm

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
On 5/30/19 10:51 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2019 at 16:49, Moses McKnight wrote: I'm thinking we should give a couple of weeks (depending of course on if we can get the work done) to get the initial stuff done and then make an rc1 release candidate. Then wait a couple of weeks

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
d etc. Do you have any other ideas? On 5/30/19 10:20 AM, Chris Morley wrote: How long are we giving for bug fixes docs and stabilizing. Roughly? Chris M Original message From: Moses McKnight Date: 2019-05-30 8:40 a.m. (GMT-07:00) To: EMC developers Subject: Re: [Emc-devel

Re: [Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
list. JT On 5/29/2019 8:04 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: Hi All, It seems that there is somewhat of a consensus to release 2.8 with it's current features plus bugfixes. This means that major features such as reverse run would not be in 2.8, but would be merged into master as soon as 2.8 i

[Emc-developers] 2.8 Release planning

2019-05-29 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi All, It seems that there is somewhat of a consensus to release 2.8 with it's current features plus bugfixes. This means that major features such as reverse run would not be in 2.8, but would be merged into master as soon as 2.8 is branched off. So this is kind of a last call for comments

Re: [Emc-developers] Introduction and a couple of questions

2019-05-21 Thread Moses McKnight
I'm glad to see the activity here! As for development coordination, there are Github Issues and Pull Requests, and the Wiki is also good for things that may not fit the preceding. I still find mailing list to be quite useful as well. On 5/21/19 8:59 PM, Rod Webster wrote: It would be good

Re: [Emc-developers] Introduction and a couple of questions

2019-05-21 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi Phillip, Last I heard there were issues merging reverse-run with master - so that is new to me! I tend to agree with Chris on this, but I don't know enough about the state of reverse run. There are bug fixes for the TP ready for 2.7, but a lot of merge conflicts putting them in master cur

Re: [Emc-developers] Introduction and a couple of questions

2019-05-20 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi Randy, Thanks for the offers to help! For IRC, you need to register your nick with NickServ on freenode in order to post. This was done a little while back because of a flood of spammers. https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration I volunteered to be the release manager quite a while ba

Re: [Emc-developers] backups (was: removal of gedit...)

2019-03-21 Thread Moses McKnight
On 3/20/19 6:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2019 16:14:26 Moses McKnight wrote: Now y'all are making me nervous! Now what did I do with my backup tapes... Tapes? I've been using amanda, with virtual tapes on a big hd for over a decade, and have found 2 things: 1

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-20 Thread Moses McKnight
On 3/20/19 3:00 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2019 15:29:10 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, Moses McKnight wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:45:42 -0500 From: Moses McKnight Reply-To: EMC developers To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc

Re: [Emc-developers] removal of gedit as default editor

2019-03-20 Thread Moses McKnight
On 3/20/19 1:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Now we know of two victims. Stuart and I. :( Well, that would explain why it didn't get removed from distributions! 2 glitches out of 2 million installs (<-random number), and it is the official text editor for Gnome. I suspect a third person probabl

Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff

2018-10-19 Thread Moses McKnight
If there are no serious objections I also think that is a good idea. What about reverse-run which has been mentioned? Is it as well tested and used? Moses On 10/19/18 11:53 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 03:45, Moses McKnight wrote: Andy asked about the multi-spindle stuff

Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff

2018-10-01 Thread Moses McKnight
preciate if this was public (maillist) and not private (IRC) (of course both is good too) Thanks Chris M ________ From: Moses McKnight Sent: September 19, 2018 2:27 PM To: emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff I agree that we should

Re: [Emc-developers] New Stuff

2018-09-19 Thread Moses McKnight
I agree that we should release sooner than later. It would be great if the issues mentioned by Rene were fixed prior to a release, but realistically some of those may take a while. Run-from-line for instance has more problems than that mentioned in #246, it also does very bad stuff if there i

Re: [Emc-developers] Breakout of HAL/ machinekits's HAL

2018-09-12 Thread Moses McKnight
I have not looked at it much, but I have some questions: What exactly IS it? What are the advantages of it? Does it require a bunch of extra dependencies? Moses On 09/12/2018 04:20 AM, andy pugh wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 at 05:19, Chris Morley wrote: Seb, Chris, Andy, Jeff - anyone else...

Re: [Emc-developers] Mode switching bug

2017-12-02 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi Rene, In case you missed it, dgarr sent this on IRC as a possible fix: a test patch for #361 (there may be unknown side effects) http://www.panix.com/~dgarrett/stuff/0001-test-fix-for-361.patch Moses On 12/02/2017 07:48 AM, Rene Hopf wrote: Hi, Im working on the mode switching issues: ht

Re: [Emc-developers] JA - Why does motion mode change from world to teleop, when I change to manual mode

2016-07-18 Thread Moses McKnight
On 07/18/2016 04:19 PM, EBo wrote: > On Jul 18 2016 3:09 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: >> On 07/18/2016 03:19 PM, John Kasunich wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, at 03:28 PM, Chris Morley wrote: >>>> >>>> I think the whole mode thi

Re: [Emc-developers] JA - Why does motion mode change from world to teleop, when I change to manual mode

2016-07-18 Thread Moses McKnight
ce or setup rather than > normal work. Jogging in cartesean space is extremely > common. > > This train of thought leads me to think that the the > existing manual mode needs to be split into joint-manual > (FREE) and axis-manual (TELEOP). > > John Kasunich > >

Re: [Emc-developers] JA - Why does motion mode change from world to teleop, when I change to manual mode

2016-07-18 Thread Moses McKnight
On 07/18/2016 01:29 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > Am 18.07.2016 um 20:11 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky: >> On 07/18/2016 11:19 AM, Niemand Sonst wrote: >>> OK, I think I found the problem, but I will need help to solve this issue! >>> I do not know C++, sorry: >>> >>> Please take a look at emc/task/emct

[Emc-developers] NOTICE: Feature freeze pending in view of a new release

2016-06-28 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi all, In accordance with the recommendation from the last IRC meeting, I plan to make a "feature freeze" and make a new branch for the next release in the near future. The joints/axes project merge is a pretty major thing and we would like to release this sooner than later. So does anyone

[Emc-developers] The "joints-axes" project has been merged into master - REQUIRES updates to configs!

2016-06-27 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi all, The joints-axes branch has now been merged into master! Joints/axes was a project to separate "joints" from "axes" in order to better support machines where a single motor does not directly drive motion along an axis, such as gantry machines, robot arms, hexapods, and similar. Anyone

[Emc-developers] GladevCP - gremlin - bugfix - mouse mode 6

2016-05-30 Thread Moses McKnight
click just zoomed, and a button1 click without Shift would pan (move) the part around. Is that what you intended for it to do? I would have thought you would not want it to rotate for lathes either. Oh, and thanks for adding some documentation for that mode! Thanks, Moses McK

Re: [Emc-developers] tp->cycleTime

2015-11-17 Thread Moses McKnight
After a little more digging, it appears that you should still be able set traj_period_nsec in the loadrt line in your hal file and the trajectory planner will run at that rate. If you set traj_period_nsec slower than servo_period_nsec then the cubic interpolation will be used, but if not then t

Re: [Emc-developers] Question re x flavors vs LCNC

2015-08-05 Thread Moses McKnight
Moving the panel is trivial - right-click on the panel, go to Panel->Panel Preferences, and uncheck "Lock Panel" if it is checked. Then you should have a little area at the far left of the panel which you can click, and drag the panel wherever you want it. Moses On 08/05/2015 03:47 AM, Gene

Re: [Emc-developers] Problems building in place on debian wheezy

2015-06-25 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi Curtis, I think the branch has not seen much activity for a while - everyone is working on other projects. But, I have a definite interest and hope to get some time to look at it soon. I believe what has been normally happening instead of merging is that the joints_axisN branch has been d

Re: [Emc-developers] Status of cradek/joints_axes7

2015-05-14 Thread Moses McKnight
I think it is just waiting for people to have time to test and fix it, and it will go into master at some point. Other people probably know the status better than I, and I'm sure bug fixes and help is always welcome! The way I understand it they have be doing a rebase instead of merging, and

Re: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-02 Thread Moses McKnight
workaround using the gladevcp -H option Moses On 04/02/2015 08:51 AM, Moses McKnight wrote: > Thanks for looking at it. Looks like you are in the same boat I am. I saw > that > code in axis, but I couldn't follow it either. I was suspecting that the > processes needed to be wai

Re: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-02 Thread Moses McKnight
Thanks for looking at it. Looks like you are in the same boat I am. I saw that code in axis, but I couldn't follow it either. I was suspecting that the processes needed to be waited on. I'm thinking it is the c.poll() line in the check_dynamic_tabs function. Hmm, looking at it now, I think

Re: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-01 Thread Moses McKnight
Thanks, I did figure out I can use -H and add hal files to the gladevcp commands, and that works. On 04/01/2015 04:34 PM, Chris Morley wrote: > > Perfect. I will look into that when I'm off work. I think you are using 2.7? > Chris M > > - Reply message - > From:

Re: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-01 Thread Moses McKnight
ing only functions as callbacks Registering handlers in module thc_box object adding import dir . module 'thc_settings' imported OK module 'thc_settings' : 'get_handlers' function found Registering handlers in module thc_settings object activating GTK bug workar

Re: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-01 Thread Moses McKnight
nd are you using to load the tab? If the tab pins load after > gscreen this would happen. Seeing code would help. > Chris M > > - Reply message ----- > From: "Moses McKnight" > To: > Subject: [Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are

[Emc-developers] Gscreen runs postgui.hal before embedded tabs are ready

2015-04-01 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi, I'm building a custom skin for Gscreen based on the Gaxis skin. I have 2 embedded gladevcp tabs/panels, and HAL widgets on them. In the postgui.hal file I connect pins from one of these embedded tabs to pins from my custom component. In Axis, or just plain Gscreen with no custom skin, th

Re: [Emc-developers] warning shot from lkml

2015-04-01 Thread Moses McKnight
Here is the post: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/1/118 Notice the date at the top ;) Here is another good one: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/31/994 On 04/01/2015 06:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > A contributor to the kernel named Boris, just posted a patch disabling > the 32 bit build entirely. > > I

[Emc-developers] Gscreen theme patch

2015-03-10 Thread Moses McKnight
Here is a patch which makes Gscreen look in the user's local .theme directory for themes as well as in /usr/share/themes. It also filters out all the directories that do not contain gtk-2.0 themes. Let me know if this could be implemented better or needs more checks than I put in. This patch

Re: [Emc-developers] Problem with python interface

2015-01-19 Thread Moses McKnight
"testpanel."+encname,encname+"-signal") Moses On 01/19/2015 01:03 PM, Moses McKnight wrote: > I have no experience using this, but in halmodule.cc I see there is a > "connect" > function: > > {"connect", connect, METH_VARARGS, > &

Re: [Emc-developers] Problem with python interface

2015-01-19 Thread Moses McKnight
I have no experience using this, but in halmodule.cc I see there is a "connect" function: {"connect", connect, METH_VARARGS, "connect pin to signal"}, On 01/19/2015 12:31 PM, Niemand Sonst wrote: > Does noboddy have an idea or help for me? > The hal pin motion.requested-vel do show

[Emc-developers] HAL_GremlinPlus problem

2015-01-16 Thread Moses McKnight
Hi, In playing with JT's GUI tutorial, I tried adding a HAL_GremlinPlus widget to a notebook page, and it crashes glade a couple of seconds after adding it. The error shown in the terminal is: (glade-3:342): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to add a widget with type GtkHBox to a HAL_GremlinPlus, b

Re: [Emc-developers] Comp

2014-06-24 Thread Moses McKnight
halmake? On 06/24/2014 10:10 AM, Marius Liebenberg wrote: > > > On 2014-06-24 17:06, Chris Radek wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:46:50PM +0100, andy pugh wrote: >> >>> "The program 'comp' can be found in the following packages >>> mailutils-mh nmh" in the obvious way. >> Maybe we should renam

Re: [Emc-developers] [DISCUSS] Proposal: Drop Hardy support

2013-08-17 Thread Moses McKnight
I would have to agree, that hardy support should not be dropped. We are dealing with machine controllers here, not merely consumer PC's that *have* to have (or so people seem to think) the latest everything every 6 months or sooner. It makes sense to me to not force people running good stable

Re: [Emc-developers] Some gentle chiding about the cd we use tto install 10.04-4 LTS from.

2012-07-19 Thread Moses McKnight
I'm not sure I understand all this. Isn't kmail the kde email client? As far as I know you have to install that yourself because it does not come on the Ubuntu liveCD, which the LinuxCNC liveCD is based on. If you install Kubuntu it might be installed, but I don't know because I've never used

Re: [Emc-developers] LinuxCNC, RTAI, and Ubuntu long term support releases

2012-05-19 Thread Moses McKnight
On 05/19/2012 03:50 AM, Jan de Kruyf wrote: > Just a quick note here: > Xenomai has kernel 3 support for a while already And they have started > making true on their roadmap regarding Xenomai3. Where do you see that? I have browsed their git repos several times and just did again, and have not f