9 Mar
2015
9 Mar
'15
12:08 p.m.
On Monday 09 March 2015 05:44:38 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 09 March 2015 07:08:18 Gene Heskett wrote:
There is a huge difference between coding up a gui for Nitros9 on an old
TRS-80 Color Computer 3, and coding up something in glade or pyvcp.
Sure, I've added some buttons and such to the axis gui for linuxcnc, but
that was by copy/pasting an example from the wiki, submitted by somebody
who actually knew what they were doing. If I needed to modify it, I had
to msg the author for suggestions. Hooking the button up to actually do
something useful, such as telling spindle servo's P.I.D. component
whether the lathes backgear was in low or high OTOH, was up to me.
If carving up that panel in steel, plastic, or even wood, gcode is half a
day to write & execute it to make it, on my cnc controlled milling
machine.
I'd have to spend months getting familiar with QT before I could grok the
code that makes that TCC window now. So I'll just say it should be put
on the wish list for R15 & let it be. Whomever wrote that code, could I
expect move it, and compile test it in <10 minutes. 10 more to submit
the patch. Done. My first attempt would probably poison the
neighborhood cats. :(
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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It would have been a bit more obvious had it been
above the right
pane of the little window. Then the mental connection would have
been a lot more automatic. I have done some gui's on older machines
that had far fewer colors available, and there is a huge difference
in the perception of "user friendly" when seemingly tiny details
like that are attended to.
File it as a wish bug. This lot really listen - within the limits of
there being very few of them, so they can't react fast. I agree about
on the top left being hard to see - one of the shops I use regularly
has moved its search window to the top left and I miss it at first
every time.
Could you code it and submit a patch along with the big report?
Especially if you have done GUIs in the past.
Lisi