You have to have a Jog button on the page for it to work. If you don't want to display the Jog On/Off button you could place it out side the stage, or use an image button without an image 

I always use the keyGrabber, also located in the Mach folder, you can open up the screen designer from there as well. I've set up joysticks and other divices this way.

If you want to know what the Ascii or Keycode I believe the Keygrabber will tell you or this will tell you most of them:
You need flash to view it 

                              You'll have to click the Flash window once to break the seal to view your key press results 

<a href="http://vileguitars.com/MachFlash/OEM codes/cnc movment.swf" target="_blank">http://vileguitars.com/MachFlash/OEM codes/cnc movment.swf</a>

I agree that the screens should be more geared towards functionality and ease of use than realism.
I think there is going to be the full gamut of screens to chose from coming out here soon.

Just notice this new screen 

So that's how you make a good machine interface!
Great detail and work!
Did you model it around hardwear you already have?

It's free for now, I belive he has planes on selling it in the future, but I'm not sure.

I think I might have posted this in the wronge topic section   

Great program and very easy to use and currently free for beta vertions  , but it is very stable!!!

From MOI website about the desighner:
"Michael Gibson created Rhino when He worked for Robert McNeel.
Michael Gibson:  "Triple Squid Software Design is a single-person company. My history, very briefly, is I worked at Robert McNeel & Associates from 1993-1999, then at Microsoft 1999-2003. In 2003 I decided that the time was right to leave Microsoft and do my own company. Since then I've been working on MoI on my own."

Currently will export:(Soon to have export abilities of DXF,DMG...)
-Iges
-Oject
-STL
-(Native Rhino files) 3DM
-3Ds

Just thought I'd share. 

http://moi3d.com/index.htm

Cool screen!
Don't think they'll mind posting the picture as well.
I like how they have the MDI above the Gcode view. 

Under the Download section you can edit and create screens with the "Mach3Screen Designer" or Screen "Designer 4".

Open up any .set file with one of the screen designers and you'll be able to add or adjust things.
Art and Benny have a few video's on how the screen designers work.

Yep, you could make the Gcode box wider and this should fix it.
Let me know if it works or if you need any help.

Here is the idea for or CNC machines and Mach which might work better and for little cost.

A small pulse of electricity passes threw the machine, if the machine or router is touch the signal is broken and the Estop is tripped or a pause and shut off of the router is executed.

I actually had two idea's in one.
-The other is to pick up the tonal qualities of the machine and router.
-The user can fine tune a program to there normal ranges.
-The program will push the machine to these ranges.
-If out side the range the machine will slow down to meet the normal tonal range.

just a thought any idea's on how to make better would be great 

CNC safety system possibility for CNC machining and Mach

I heard talk about a new table saw that is equipped with new type of safety system called SawStop.
I find this very interesting and a possibility for the CNC industry to climb on board and develop something similar.

So everything has tonal qualities, like an orchestra of sounds. Our machine might sound like a bunch of random chaos of sound but they actually have a continual tonal frequency (when functioning properly).
There is a distinct change in the electrical signal when a finger touched a spinning.

A couple things come to mind for possibilities:

-Stop a spindle or a machine from harming a person.
-Stop a machine from causing damage to it’s self.
-Accurately diagnose the physical health of a machine.
-Fine tune and adjust appropriate spindle speed by detecting the spindles frequency and having a program appropriately adjust the RPM’s on the fly.
-Feed rate changes can be made more efficiently and accurately on the fly.


Here’s how Sawstop work’s:

“SawStop safety system includes an electronic detection system that detects when a person contacts the blade. The system induces an electrical signal onto the blade and then monitors that signal for changes. The human body has a relatively large inherent electrical capacitance and conductivity which cause the signal to drop when a person contacts the blade. Wood has a relatively small inherent capacitance and conductivity and does not cause the signal to drop.
A fast-acting brake stops the blade when contact is detected. The brake includes a heavy-duty spring to push a block of aluminum, called a brake pawl, into the teeth of the blade to stop the blade from spinning. The spring is held in compression by a fuse wire until contact is detected. When contact is detected, the system sends a surge of electricity through the fuse wire to burn the wire and release the spring. The spring pushes the brake pawl into the teeth of the spinning blade, and the teeth cut into the aluminum and bind, thereby stopping the blade. All this happens in about 3–5 milliseconds, or 1/200th of a second. At the same time, the angular momentum of the blade causes the blade to retract below the table and the power to the motor is shut off.”
http://www.sawstop.com/index.htm



  Just some thoughts on the possible future of CNC and Mach