Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Anyone who is interested in this project, here is a link to a video up the UI making some cuts https://youtu.be/qyyjcHG_G4M On Monday, September 24, 2018 at 1:41:45 PM UTC-4, Travis Gillin wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > This is not a special version of Machinekit. This is merely a GUI like > Axis,

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Hi Chris, This is not a special version of Machinekit. This is merely a GUI like Axis, Touchy, Gmoccappy, etc. None of the currently available UI can run without X to my knowledge except for some Text based UI's. This makes running machinekit and controlling it on RPi or Beagle Bone without a

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Chris Albertson
One question about a GUI that draws to the frame buffer: How do you share the screen with other software? Here is a scenario. You boot the machine and I guess you get to the command like X11 is not started, Next you run the special version of MK that has the buffer writing GUI and you see

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-24 Thread Travis Gillin
Hey Schooner, I bet you are right, I was using a pre-build Beagle Bone Black image of and the headers were missing there. I'll install the other packages and I bet that will clear things up so when I get a chance to give that a shot I'll let you know if that solved the problem. I can add you

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-23 Thread schoone...@gmail.com
Had a look at the forum thread in linuxcnc, sounds interesting. There is obviously a github repo somewhere you have shared with Michel Wijnja If you would like to do the same, I will be happy to test build. On 23/09/18 07:11, schoone...@gmail.com

Re: [Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-23 Thread schoone...@gmail.com
HI Travis, I will be interested to have a look at this later. The includes you want should be in the flavor package https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit/blob/master/debian/machinekit-rt-preempt.install.in#L4 We don't have a -dev package and each kernel has a specific sub package which

[Machinekit] GUI Geared towards Embedded Platforms

2018-09-22 Thread Travis Gillin
I'm working on a GUI that's meant for embedded applications with fairly low resources. It's C and C++ based and runs entirely without X, deals directly with the framebuffer and evdev for mouse & keyboard. (Touchscreen also supported) I have a post here about it