My First Screen

[hacker77]

 This is my first post and WOW!!! this place is great, I've been looking at it, while I build my cnc machine. Anyway my ? is when I make a sample screen set with some "dros" and some other buttons to practice using screen 4, every other screen set I've downloaded and loaded in screen 4  the numbers in the "dros" start counting up. Now when I load my sample screen they do nothing  why is that? I've watched Benny"s videos lots and lots of times, but I'm missing something. Any help would be great.  Thanks to all for your valuable time and energy you put in here. Richard

[ger21]

I think they only count if they are "skinned". Mine don't count either.

[Pythagoras]

Hi Hacker, Its been years since I have done any screen stuff, or videos.
Since video codecs have improved so much, and file size has decreased as well as youtube improved I will make a fresh batch of tutorials.
If you can live without voice, then I can spit out some new tutes in the next few days.
Can you zip and upload a test file that you have, that isnt working?
From memory screen 4 has a bug (well many bugs) where the order of how you place the items, depends on if the DROs work properly.
It may take a day or so for me to revisit and remember the quirks of screen 4.

[ger21]

I should have clarified that the DRO's will still work fine, even if they don't count.

[Pythagoras]

Yes that brings back a memory Gerry.
Can you remind me how to change the font of a DRO, there was a way but it wasnt straight 4ward from memory

[budman68]

Yes that brings back a memory Gerry.
Can you remind me how to change the font of a DRO, there was a way but it wasnt straight 4ward from memory

Benny, when Mach 3 is started, click in the menu bar: "Function Cfg's"/"Fonts"/ then click the DRO button and change the font you desire that you have loaded in the Windows Font folder. After that, I always save the settings under menu item: "Config"/Save settings" and restart Mach 3 and you should be good to go.

Hope that helps,
Dave

[Pythagoras]

Ahh yes thats right. Thanks for that Dave
Youve got to wonder why Art didnt make font selection in the screen designer instead ? (Another bug for screen 4)

Incidentally, is the new screen designer any better or is it just a new layout for screen 4 ?
Does it have any new and better features?
I have downloaded it but are too lazy to try and learn it? Is it worth learning and making a tute on how to use it instead of screen 4?

[budman68]

Ahh yes thats right. Thanks for that Dave
Youve got to wonder why Art didnt make font selection in the screen designer instead ? (Another bug for screen 4)

Incidentally, is the new screen designer any better or is it just a new layout for screen 4 ?
Does it have any new and better features?
I have downloaded it but are too lazy to try and learn it? Is it worth learning and making a tute on how to use it instead of screen 4?

I have to admit, I've tried playing with the new screen designer "MachScreen" and not a big fan, but honestly, I'm just not giving it a fair try as whenever I do screen changes in my screensets, I always just use screen 4 as I do not seem to have the problems that many others do. I actually really like screen 4 but would still like to try and learn Machscreen someday as I hear nothing but fantastic things about it.

Dave

[ger21]

While Machscreen is arguably better, I find Screen4 to be faster. So I use Screen4.

[AndrewM]

I'm working on my first screen and I've been using MachScreen, the only thing I have noticed so far is that you kind of have to figure it out by just messing around with it. Other then that I haven't noticed anything horrendous about it yet