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Mach Discussion => Mach Screens => Machscreen Screen Designer => Topic started by: 2000mph on May 30, 2012, 11:42:52 PM

Title: DRO problem, etc.
Post by: 2000mph on May 30, 2012, 11:42:52 PM

I am designing my own screen for my Bridgeport BOSS retrofit. To begin, I am modifying the 1024 screen that comes with Mach3. I am replacing the images and also resizing and moving the DROs, LEDs and Buttons.

A few things that I don't understand:

Everything looks great in MachScreen, but when I pull it up in Mach3, many of the DROs have a image that says "Offline".

The sliders are not the correct width. In MachScreen, they are 35 pixels wide, but in Mach3, they are 25 pixels.

Here is a partial screenshot of the offending area....

Title: Re: DRO problem, etc.
Post by: 2000mph on May 31, 2012, 09:08:31 PM

Okay, I figured out the "Offline" issue.... When I edited the existing DROs, I deleted the background image. Apparently there is an artifact left over (even though it says there is no image), and it is confused and uses "Offline" instead. I found that using a transparent image as the background solved the problem. It was also gone if I created a new DRO instead of editing an existing one.

I still need to solve the slider being the wrong number of pixels wide. I created new sliders, but still no joy.... :(

Title: Re: DRO problem, etc.
Post by: ger21 on May 31, 2012, 10:03:37 PM

Sliders don't display their actual width. Not much you can do about it.

Dro's in the stock screen are "skinned", which I think is the issue you're seeing.

I don't use Machscreen, so can't really tell you how to work around it.

Title: Re: DRO problem, etc.
Post by: 2000mph on June 01, 2012, 12:43:27 AM

Thanks Gerry! Somehow I got it to display the the sliders correctly. I'm not sure what I did though. ;)