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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 15, 2009, 10:57:49 AM »

Open it in Notepad and see if there's a comma between all the values. Sounds like there's only 2 commas per line?

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can you make a DRO Read only ?

« on: May 14, 2009, 07:30:40 PM »

Change the run button to some VB script and use an OEM trigger for the external button? Then either one should do the same thing?

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can you make a DRO Read only ?

« on: May 14, 2009, 07:10:32 PM »

This came up a few weeks ago and there were a few workarounds posted. Can't find it though.

I seem to recall something about placing a transparent button on top of it so it can't be accessed? And a way to use a label to display the DRO contents without actually using the DRO.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 Aqua

« on: May 14, 2009, 08:56:06 AM »

You'd have to modify the Photoshop files and use a screen designer to modify the controls on the screens. If you just want to remove some things, it shouldn't be too hard.

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 13, 2009, 05:57:44 PM »

ummm global resize would be nice too... take a 1024x768 screen up to 1280x1024 for example with a simple click.. seems a feasable thing to be able to do???  maybe it can allready but i just missed that bit?

I created all my bitmaps in Photoshop at 1280x1024, but designed the screen at 1024x768. I let Mach3 enlarge it to 1280x1024 and it looks fine. I see no benefit to having the screen designer "enlarge" the screen when mach3 will already do it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: axis direction

« on: May 11, 2009, 08:32:12 PM »

Homing/Limits screen, check "Reversed"

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 Aqua

« on: May 09, 2009, 11:34:49 AM »

Here are the Photoshop files, if anyone wants to modify these screens. It's a 20+MB download, though.
http://tinyurl.com/pps585

There is a main file for each page, with each control on it's own layer. I turn most of the layers off to export the .png. Look at the actual .png files in the bitmap folder to see how I did it.

Because of the gradient backgrounds, buttons aligned left to right can share the same background. So you should find a single file for each horizontal row of buttons (in each control section). You can change the text and export a different .png for each button. You'll notice that there is duplicate text on buttons with the drop shadows. One under the highlight, with the drop shadow, and one above the highlight, without the shadow. This keeps the shadow below the highlight, and the text on top where it's more legible.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CV mode to Exact Stop Mode...??? Where to change it?

« on: May 07, 2009, 10:32:02 PM »

You can change it in General Config, or use G64 for CV or G61 for Exact Stop.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Typo on Mach 3 Demo screen

« on: May 06, 2009, 08:08:27 PM »

The demo is the same as the full version, so the error is in both.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Any Geckodrive G540 users out there?

« on: May 03, 2009, 04:11:30 PM »

It is correct. When the drive is powered up, it should lock the motor(s). The motor won't spin until it gets step and direction signals.